Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK

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

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Entries Tagged as 'DC3.0'

Thanks and farewell to Jayshree Ullal

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0

Jayshree Ullal anounced today that she will be leaving her post as Senior Vice President in charge of Data Center, Switching, and Security groups. Jayshree has earned a reputation inside and outside of Cisco as a person who could take charge and get things done. First coming to Cisco as an engineer with the crescendo [...]

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Tags: C·CISCO·Colin·Data Center·DC3.0·Farewell Jayshree·Jayshree Ullal·Pic·security·switch

Identity aware networking using Cisco TrustSec

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · CISCO, DC3.0, security

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: C·CISCO·Data Center·DC3.0·DESIGN·encryption·GLBA·HIPPA·HP·MPLS·Network·network infrastructure·Nexus·Nexus 7000·Sarbanes Oxley·security·SOX·switch·TrustSec·vlan

Usability features in Cisco’s Nexus 7000

February 7th, 2008 · 7 Comments · CISCO, DC3.0, FCOE, Fibre Channel Over Ethernet, Nexus 7000, NX-OS, vmware

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: blog·C·CISCO·communication·Data Center·DC3.0·DESIGN·enhancements·FCOE·HP·mars·mds·NDA·Nexus·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·Pic·Power·security·Technology·virtualization