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

Technical reviews and articles from a CCIE with extensive experience in designing and implementing converged enterprise networks.

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Usability features in Cisco’s Nexus 7000

February 7th, 2008 · 6 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.
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Tags: CISCO · DC3.0 · FCOE · Fibre Channel Over Ethernet · NX-OS · Nexus 7000 · vmware

Me and the Nexus 7000 last week at the Data Center VT

February 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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

Cisco NX-OS 4.0 | Next Generation Internet Operating System

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: CCIE Storage · DC3.0 · IOS-NX · NX-OS