Colin McNamara - CCIE 18233 , RHCE, GCIH, CCVP, GEEK

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 [...]

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This morning I was featured as #11 of 20 in Network World Magazines 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals. Let me say thank you to the folks at network world for mentioning my little corner of the internet, and welcome to any readers that haven’t been to my site before. I hope that you [...]

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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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I spent the majority of last week at Cisco’s San Jose headquarters attending the Partner DataCenter Virtual Training. We spent three days going over new product releases, getting briefed and trained on new features as well as new products, as well as socializing with other engineers who focus on DataCenter technologies.
As with any vendor specific [...]

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The latest product to make its way from the storage networking arena into the data center networking arena is Cisco’s new NX-OS, next generation network operating system. Cisco has taken the highly succesful MDS line of switches, and  expanded on their success by taking their core operating system - SAN-OS and expanding it to provide [...]

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Data Center 3.0 has arrived with Cisco’s Nexus 7000 Data Center switch. I hope I am not to sensational in saying this, but the Data Center as you know it has changed drastically.

Highlights of the the Nexus 7000’s features are -

15 Terrabit per second backplane
Support for 40 and 100 gig ports in the future
Seperate control [...]

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Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233 – (858) 927-4515 - colin@2cups.com
CERTIFICATIONS HELD
CCIE - Cisco Systems Internetwork Expert #18233
GCIH – GIAC Certified Incident Handler
CCVP - Cisco Certified Voice Professional
CSNSSS - Cisco Storage Networking Solutions Support Specialist
CSNSDS - Cisco Storage Network Solutions Design Specialist
CCIE Storage Networking
RHCE - Redhat Certified Engineer #804006368822511
RHCT - Redhat Certified Technician #804006368822511
NSCA - [...]

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