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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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

Moving towards a Green Data Center – Truth behind the hype

February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · CISCO, DC3.0, Green Data Center, efficiency

Eplus, Cisco, Hewlett Packard and PG&E held a luncheon this last Friday focused on Green Data Center. I’ll be the first to admit that at first I thought “green” Data Center initiatives were just political and corporate marketing initiatives. I thought they saw Al Gore give some rocking presentation and decided it would be great [...]

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Tags: ·C·CISCO·Data Center·eplus·Green Data Center·HP·MPLS·Network·network infrastructure·PG&E·Power·Provider·service provider·switch·virtualization·vmware

Usability features in Cisco’s Nexus 7000

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

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