IT staff at the University of Miami are having a very bad week. They are having to deal with the fact that two million private health records were stolen from from them. While it wasn’t directly their fault that their backup tapes were stolen from a off site storage providers transport van. The responsibility does [...]
Entries Tagged as 'storage'
Encrypting your backup tapes with Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME)
May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, photography, sme
Tags: andiamo·breach·C·CISCO·Colin·encryption·GLBA·HIPPA·legal·mds·NDA·Provider·san·Sarbanes Oxley·security·sme·SOX·storage·storage media encryption·switch·tape·Technology
Nexus 5020 – Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel
April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · CCIE, CCIE Storage, CISCO, DC3.0, Technology, Uncategorized
Cisco released an addition to their Nexus series data center switching line, the Nexus 5020. The Nexus 5020 packs 1.04 terrabit of switching capacity into a 2 ru top of rack chassis. Inside this chassis you have 40 10 Gig Ethernet ports, as well as modular slots that can accept 12 extra 10 Gig ports, [...]
Tags: C·CCIE·CISCO·Colin·Data Center·FCOE·Fibre Channel·Gadget·NDA·Nexus·Nexus 5020·san·storage·switch·vmware
Challenges integrating VMware into Cisco networks
March 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments · CISCO, Technology, virtualization, vmware
UPDATE – for those looking for the Nexus 1000v release, check out this post
In the past couple years, VMware has changed from a product hidden in development and testing environments to a full fledged enterprise computing platform. It brings many benefits to the companies that implement it, however with those benefits come changes to [...]
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