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Author Archives: Matthew Norwood
Setting Up Partners For Failure?
A short post, but this has been on my mind for a few months. People who work for resellers and vendors typically have access to competitor information. This is usually a comparison or contrast against whomever the vendor sees as … Continue reading
What I Am Looking For At Interop
I’m returning to Las Vegas for Interop. I was fortunate enough to attend last year on behalf of HP and Ivy Worldwide. I am returning again as a guest of HP and Ivy Worldwide. I should point out that HP … Continue reading
How Bad Do You Want It?
A friend of mine posted this on Facebook, and I felt compelled to share it. Although the primary focus is on physical training, it has massive parallels to IT and “brain training”. Watch the whole thing. It takes 5 minutes. … Continue reading
Just Another Cisco Nexus Install
The most recent Cisco Nexus implementation I was involved in had some challenges. Since you can’t really have an in depth discussion on Twitter due to the 140 character limit, I figured I would throw this post together and share … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, data center, nexus, switching
Tagged cisco, datacenter, nexus, switching
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Inside Wireless Hardware – Part 2
In part one of this series, I looked at wireless access points from Meraki and Ruckus. I also looked at a controller from Ruckus and an old Linksys wireless card. In part two, I am going to look at AP’s … Continue reading
Inside Wireless Hardware – Part 1
This post is about me taking wireless hardware apart and taking pictures of it. I’m not going to bore you with stories of me as a child taking things apart, because to be quite honest, I wasn’t that kid. I … Continue reading
Will The Future Include Feature Licenses?
One of the challenges(I mean that in a good way.) of working at a VAR that sells for so many vendors is keeping track of the various solutions. If it were as simple as being familiar with the products from … Continue reading
Meraki
I spend a lot of time pouring over vendor solutions. A lot. Unfortunately, I don’t specialize in one area like wireless, security, storage, voice, etc. I am more of a network generalist. Because of that, I tend to focus on … Continue reading
Posted in cloud, security, switching, vendors, wireless
Tagged security, switching vendors datacenter, vendors, wireless
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Where Packets Never Die
I talked with a fairly large service provider yesterday regarding quality of service(QoS) possibilities for a particular network. Essentially, we were trying to figure out what was available from a queues perspective so that we could make sure we were … Continue reading
You Never Mentioned Me To The Client
I work for a company that partners with numerous vendors. That’s a big part of why I took the job with them. I wanted to work with a bunch of different platforms. It was important that I wasn’t just an … Continue reading