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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Simplifying remote site security with Cisco’s new video surveillance modules on the ISR

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

One giant pain I have always faced when working with high security environments is dealing with surveillance systems. They are a necessary and required part of your security infrastructure. However they just never seem to integrate as well as your network, storage, or server devices.
When I work with data center infrastructure I expect the following [...]

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

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

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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What being married to a geek who does search engine optimization gets you

January 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I have been learning all the right ways to build a website that Google can understand. Along the way I set a couple of goals.

The first and foremost goal is to only use “white hat” or legal ways of increasing her visibility
Get Ashley on page 1 for four target keywords
Get An indented listing

Well, it looks [...]

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