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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Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure between DMZ and Internal environments

September 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Ivan Pepelnjak over at IOS Hints and Tricks wrote a post about DMZ VLAN leaking that got me thinking.
He writes about “the VLAN leaking myth” and how it encourages clients to utilize physically separate network infrastructure in the DMZ’s. Now first things first, I wouldn’t call VLAN leaking a myth. At one time it was [...]

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Tags: hyper-v · virtualization · vmware

CCDE Practical - Beta candidate deadline August 1 2008

July 21st, 2008 · No Comments

I just received an email from Cisco finally revealing what benefit the CCDE beta program members will receive for being good little test subjects.
As a CCDE beta participant on the qualification exam, you have given us your time and feedback and have made a significant commitment to making this a valuable program in the market. [...]

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Tags: CCDE · CISCO

Darrel Hinshaw - New Triple CCIE [Storage]!!!!!!!

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

My bud Darrel from our Dallas office passed his third CCIE this afternoon.

I think Rick (5x CCIE) put it best in a company wide email earlier this afternoon  -

From: Rick Davis
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 4:46 PM
To: Technology Sales & Services
Subject: Darrel Hinshaw - New Triple CCIE [Storage]!!!!!!!

Please join me in congratulating Darrel in obtaining [...]

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Tags: CCIE · CCIE Storage