Colin McNamara – CCIE 18233 , VCP, EMCIE, NCDA, GEEK

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Entries Tagged as 'Nexus 7000'

Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · CISCO, Nexus 4000

Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward  in Cisco’s view of a true multiprotocol network. What does this mean?  In Cisco’s view of the world this means supporting the transport of Fibre Channel, [...]

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Tags: CEE·certification·CISCO·Data Center·Fabric Extender·Nexus·Nexus 4000·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·switch·Technology·UCS

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 [...]

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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

Featured on Network World – 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments · CCDE, CCIE, CCIE Storage, certification, Nexus 7000, NX-OS

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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Tags: C·CCDE·CCIE·certification·CISCO·Colin·Network·Network World·networkworld·Nexus·Nexus 7000·NX-OS·NX-OS 4.0·storage