This afternoon Cisco released a new member of the Nexus family of switches, the Nexus 1000V. This is the first switch to take advantage of VMware opening up their ESX and ESXi platforms to for third party network device manufacturers. This switch directly address some pretty big pain points surrounding current virtualization implementations. The boundary [...]
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Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware
September 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments · CISCO, cloud computing, DC3.0, Nexus 7000, vmware
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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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Resume – Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233
January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment ·
Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233 – (858) 927-4515 – colin@2cups.com CERTIFICATIONS / ACCREDITATIONS HELD CCIE – Cisco Systems Internetwork Expert #18233 VCP – VMware Certified Professional CDCUCSS – Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist VSP – VMware Sales Professional VTSP – VMware Technical Sales Professional TSS – Cisco Technical Solutions Specialist, Data Center GCIH – [...]
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