Mike, a reader of my blog, sent me an email last week with decent question for someone early in their career. Mike is currently looking for a new job. He was curious why so many corporate IT jobs were requiring BGP knowledge and experience.
Mike Writes -
“Hi Colin,
I’m an avid reader of your blog and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'MPLS'
Reader question – Why are corporations looking for BGP experience?
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE, CISCO, Technology, certification
Tags: BGP·blog·C·CCIE·CCNA·CISCO·Colin·Data Center·DESIGN·hiring·Learning·Mike·MPLS·NDA·Network·Provider·service provider·Technology·virtualization
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: ·C·CISCO·Data Center·eplus·Green Data Center·HP·MPLS·Network·network infrastructure·PG&E·Power·Provider·service provider·switch·virtualization·vmware
