This afternoon Cisco released a new member of the Nexus family of switches, the Nexus 1000V. This is the first switch to take advantage of VMware opening up their ESX and ESXi platforms to for third party network device manufacturers. This switch directly address some pretty big pain points surrounding current virtualization implementations. The boundary [...]
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Cisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware
September 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments · CISCO, cloud computing, DC3.0, Nexus 7000, vmware
Tags: blog·C·CISCO·Colin·Data Center·DESIGN·HP·linux·NDA·Network·Nexus·nexus 1000v·NX-OS·security·storage·switch·Technology·TrustSec·virtualization·vlan·vmware·vn-link
Measuring and mitigating risk involved with sharing virtual infrastructure between DMZ and Internal environments
September 9th, 2008 · No Comments · hyper-v, virtualization, vmware
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 [...]
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Identity aware networking using Cisco TrustSec
February 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · CISCO, DC3.0, security
With all the fanfare surrounding the recent Nexus 7000 release I think many people have missed a significant new development in Cisco’s security portfolio. That new development is Cisco TrustSec. TrustSec takes the classic notion of access control based source and destination ip:ports and replaces it with a role and resource based methodology that fits [...]
Tags: C·CISCO·Data Center·DC3.0·DESIGN·encryption·GLBA·HIPPA·HP·MPLS·Network·network infrastructure·Nexus·Nexus 7000·Sarbanes Oxley·security·SOX·switch·TrustSec·vlan
