Resume – Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233
Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233 – (858) 927-4515 – colin@2cups.com Colin McNamara is a seasoned professional with over 15 years experience with network and systems technologies. Holding many...
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Cisco Nexus 7000 DataCenter switch released – Welcome to DataCenter 3.0
Data Center 3.0 has arrived with Cisco’s Nexus 7000 Data Center switch. I hope I am not to sensational in saying this, but the Data Center as you know it has changed drastically. Highlights of the the...
View ArticleCisco NX-OS 4.0 | Next Generation Internet Operating System
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...
View ArticleDataCenter SVP Jayshree Ullal interviewed about the Nexus 7000
Similar Posts: Cisco Nexus 7000 DataCenter switch released – Welcome to DataCenter 3.0 Thanks and farewell to Jayshree Ullal Jayshree Ullal takes the helm of Arista Networks John McCool chosen as...
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Me and the Nexus 7000 last week at the Data Center VT
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...
View ArticleUsability features in Cisco’s Nexus 7000
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...
View ArticleFeatured on Network World – 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals
This morning I was featured as #11 of 20 in Network World Magazines 20 useful sites for Cisco networking professionals. Let me say thank you to the folks at network world for mentioning my little...
View ArticleIdentity aware networking using Cisco TrustSec
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....
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Cisco is using Linux virtualization and 40 core CPU’s for its next generation...
Cisco recently released a new series of router called the Aggregation Services Router, or ASR for short. This series of routers is mainly targeted at the service provider market, where it is targeted...
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Challenges integrating VMware into Cisco networks
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...
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Nexus 5020 – Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel
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...
View ArticleTwitter Updates for 2008-06-05
Nexus 5020 – Consolidated 10 Gig Ethernet and 4 Gig Fibre Channel: Cisco released an addition to th.. http://tinyurl.com/5ujn7c # UPDATE – Sorry for the RSS spam, I have been playing with twitter...
View ArticleI’ll be at Cisco Live 2008 (networkers) in Orlando all week
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...
View ArticleCisco Nexus NX-OS and DCNM XML API’s – Cisco Live 2008
Since I am at Cisco Live Networks all week, and I take notes anyways, i thought I would share them with you. NX-OS / DCNM XML API Fundamental Technology Netconf – platform for secure communication of...
View ArticleBIG Cisco – VMware announcement – 1:30 Pacific time
Expect something really big in the cloud computing / datacenter 3.0 space to be announced by Cisco this afternoon. Sadly, I have the unfortunate situation of being tagged as an insider (work in the...
View ArticleCisco releases Nexus 1000V virtual switch for VMware
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...
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Humor inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture
I was putting together some presentations this morning and found a joke hidden inside the Nexus 5000 switch fabric architecture. Can you find it? If you are from the San Francisco bay area you will...
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Cisco Nexus 5010 released
Cisco just released a little brother to the Nexus 5020, the 5010. The 5010 provides the same features as the 5020, but in a 20 port x 10 gig 1ru form factor with one expansion slot. The coolest thing...
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Cisco Nexus 4000 Blade Switch
Cisco’s vision of the unified data center took another step forward today with the announcement of the Nexus 4000 series blade center switches. This switch is another step forward in Cisco’s view of a...
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Cisco EMC and VMware partneship VCE VBlocks Acadia and the Partner Ecosystem
Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud...
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