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

I read an interesting article in the Channel Register written by Timothy Pricket Morgan today. In his article - Cisco California pricing revealed, $3,000 for a blade with no innards he attempts to position UCS as a horribly overpriced system where Cisco is egregiously marking up components. A pretty strong statement from his article is listed [...]

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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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One giant pain I have always faced when working with high security environments is dealing with surveillance systems. They are a necessary and required part of your security infrastructure. However they just never seem to integrate as well as your network, storage, or server devices.
When I work with data center infrastructure I expect the following [...]

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