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

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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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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I spent the majority of last week at Cisco’s San Jose headquarters attending the Partner DataCenter Virtual Training. We spent three days going over new product releases, getting briefed and trained on new features as well as new products, as well as socializing with other engineers who focus on DataCenter technologies.
As with any vendor specific [...]

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