Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, RHCE, GCIH, GEEK

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Entries Tagged as 'CISCO'

Cisco EMC and VMware partneship VCE VBlocks Acadia and the Partner Ecosystem

November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, EMC, VBlock

Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud infrastructures. The Virtual Computing Environment will accomplish this in four different ways.
VBlock Infrastructure Packages

VBlock infrastructure packages are pre-configured bundles that are sized to [...]

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Tags: CISCO·EMC·mds·Nexus·nexus 1000v·service provider·storage·UCS·virtualization

Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Nexus 4000

Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward  in Cisco’s view of a true multiprotocol network.
What does this mean?  In Cisco’s view of the world this means supporting the transport of Fibre Channel, Fibre [...]

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Tags: CEE·certification·CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·Nexus·Nexus 4000·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·switch·Technology·UCS

Arista Networks – Their approach to cloud networking

September 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Arista Networks, nexus 1000v, vmware

Intellectual capital driving the cloud

It is wise to follow the movements of thought leaders in Silicon Valley. Why is that? Because when enough smart people land at the same company, it is only a matter of time something great happens. This “human network” of intellectual capital has been the seed of many successful tech [...]

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Tags: Arista Networks·CISCO·nexus 1000v·vmware

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