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

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

June 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 4s ranch rancho bernardo san diego witch fire evacuated, CCIE, CISCO, security, sun, Technology

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 [...]

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Challenges integrating VMware into Cisco networks

March 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments · CISCO, Technology, virtualization, vmware

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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Cisco is using Linux virtualization and 40 core CPU’s for its next generation routers

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments · ASR1000, CCIE, CISCO, IOS-EX, IOS-XE, linux, MPLS

Cisco recently released a new series of router called the Aggregation Services Router, or ASR for short. This series of routers is mainly targeted at the service provider market, where it is targeted as a single chassis solution for what is called the “triple play” – Voice, Video, and Data. More accurately it can be [...]

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