Colin McNamara - CCIE 18233 , RHCE, GCIH, CCVP, GEEK

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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John McCool chosen as Jayshree Ullal’s replacement to lead Cisco’s Data Center Switching and Services Group (DSSG)

May 10th, 2008 · No Comments

John McCool was chosen to succeed Jayshree Ullal as the leader of the DSSG yesterday. John comes with a rich development background on both the 4500 and 6500 series platforms, as well participating in internet standards bodies.

Please join me in welcoming John McCool to his new position as the leader of (in my opinion) [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · DC3.0 · Jayshree Ullal · John McCool · Technology

Identity aware networking using Cisco TrustSec

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

With all the fanfare surrounding the recent Nexus 7000 release I think many people have missed a significant new development in Cisco’s security portfolio. That new development is Cisco TrustSec. TrustSec takes the classic notion of access control based source and destination ip:ports and replaces it with a role and resource based methodology that fits [...]

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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · security

Usability features in Cisco’s Nexus 7000

February 7th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Douglas Gourlay, Sr Director, Marketing and Product Management for Cisco’s Data Center Business Unit and writer of Cisco’s Data Center Blog commented on my celebrity sighting post (me and the nexus 7000). He asked two questions regarding my post about the Nexus 7000, and I feel that it best serves everyone to answer them here.
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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · FCOE · Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · vmware