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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BIG Cisco - VMware announcement - 1:30 Pacific time

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Expect something really big in the cloud computing / datacenter 3.0 space to be announced by Cisco this afternoon.
Sadly, I have the unfortunate situation of being tagged as an insider (work in the partner community). So I have to play nice, and cannot reveal any juicy tidbits. Suffice it to say, that Jashree Ullal and [...]

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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · vmware

Cisco Nexus NX-OS and DCNM XML API’s - Cisco Live 2008

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Since I am at Cisco Live Networks all week, and I take notes anyways, i thought I would share them with you.
NX-OS / DCNM XML API Fundamental Technology
Netconf - platform for secure communication of XML data between DCNM / NX-OS and mgmt station.
XML, using clear text tags, creates a self describing API. This is necessary [...]

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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · NX-OS · Technology

I’ll be at Cisco Live 2008 (networkers) in Orlando all week

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

It’s that time of year again, time to meet, drink, collaborate and learn. It’s time for Networkers (officially Cisco Live 2008). For some of us that means taking detailed notes all week long, for others it means almost getting arrested for climbing the totem pole outside of the house of blues (you know who you [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CISCO · Networkers · Uncategorized · certification · cisco live 2008