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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Cisco EMC and VMware partneship VCE VBlocks Acadia and the Partner Ecosystem

November 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, EMC, VBlock

Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud infrastructures. The Virtual Computing Environment will accomplish this in four different ways.
VBlock Infrastructure Packages

VBlock infrastructure packages are pre-configured bundles that are sized to [...]

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Tags: CISCO·EMC·mds·Nexus·nexus 1000v·service provider·storage·UCS·virtualization

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

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, photography, sme

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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Tags: andiamo·breach·C·CISCO·Colin·encryption·GLBA·HIPPA·legal·mds·NDA·Provider·san·Sarbanes Oxley·security·sme·SOX·storage·storage media encryption·switch·tape·Technology

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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