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

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

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments · 4s ranch rancho bernardo san diego witch fire evacuated, CCIE, CISCO, Technology, security, sun

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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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.
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Book Review – Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS

November 14th, 2006 · No Comments · CISCO, Technology, Uncategorized, book review, security

Book Review – Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS

Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS
by Dale Tesch, Greg Abelar
Publisher: Cisco Press
Pub Date: September 28, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 1-58705-260-1
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-260-6
Pages: 408
This book had so much potential to be a great. Sadly it turned out to be an overgrown technical manual. The [...]

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