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

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Entries Tagged as 'encryption'

Encrypting your backup tapes with Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME)

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, photography, sme

IT staff at the University of Miami are having a very bad week. They are having to deal with the fact that two million private health records were stolen from from them. While it wasn’t directly their fault that their backup tapes were stolen from a off site storage providers transport van. The responsibility does [...]

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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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Cisco Nexus 7000 DataCenter switch released – Welcome to DataCenter 3.0

January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, IOS-NX

Data Center 3.0 has arrived with Cisco’s Nexus 7000 Data Center switch. I hope I am not to sensational in saying this, but the Data Center as you know it has changed drastically. Highlights of the the Nexus 7000′s features are – 15 Terrabit per second backplane Support for 40 and 100 gig ports in [...]

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