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

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

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Darrel Hinshaw - New Triple CCIE [Storage]!!!!!!!

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

My bud Darrel from our Dallas office passed his third CCIE this afternoon.

I think Rick (5x CCIE) put it best in a company wide email earlier this afternoon  -

From: Rick Davis
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:46 PM
To: Technology Sales & Services
Subject: Darrel Hinshaw - New Triple CCIE [Storage]!!!!!!!

Please join me in congratulating Darrel in obtaining [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CCIE Storage

CCIE Party 2008 Recap - Cisco Live Networkers 2008

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Yesterday evening, a scary realization came to me as I was heading to the CCIE party at the Nascar Bar and Grille. The realization was, that in this ratty shuttle van, there was 26 CCIE certifications, and if we crashed we would take out a significant portion of the engineering leadership in our billion dollar [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · Networkers

Challenges integrating VMware into Cisco networks

March 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

UPDATE - for those looking for the Nexus 1000v release, check out this post
In the past couple years, VMware has changed from a product hidden in development and testing environments to a full fledged enterprise computing platform. It brings many benefits to the companies that implement it, however with those benefits come changes to [...]

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Tags: CISCO · Technology · virtualization · vmware