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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Identity aware networking using Cisco TrustSec

February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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: CISCO · DC3.0 · security

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

February 20th, 2008 · No Comments

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: CCDE · CCIE · CCIE Storage · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · certification

Usability features in Cisco’s Nexus 7000

February 7th, 2008 · 7 Comments

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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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · FCOE · Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · vmware