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Category Archives: cisco
Cisco Wireless Transmit Power Control
I’m going to start out by telling you something you probably already know. Every vendor has their own way of doing things. Sometimes it makes perfect sense, and other times you end up scratching your head wondering why that particular … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, wireless
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Where Is Cisco UCS Headed?
If you happen to read my writing(as infrequent as it is these days), you know that I am a networking focused person. I live my day to day within the walls of routing, switching, wireless, and other “network centric” platforms … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, data center, hardware, storage
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Winning With Ecosystems
Back in 2010, I wrote a post entitled “Competing With Cisco”. It has been a few years, and since I have been in the VAR space for almost 3 years now, I have a slightly different perspective. One thing I … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, vendors
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Could Cisco ACI Kill APM?
Note – This is ALL 100% speculation on my part. I may be WAY off base with what you are about to read, and if you know something I don’t, feel free to correct me in the comments below. I … Continue reading
Posted in cisco, data center, monitoring, network management
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Vendors Are Listening
There isn’t a day that goes by where someone on Twitter isn’t complaining about some vendor. I do it myself. Sometimes it seems as if we are all shouting about the same thing and nothing is ever done about it. … Continue reading
Touring Geek Heaven
A few weeks ago, I went to Atlanta to tour a data center. HP invited me down to take a look at a specific customer of theirs. I live about 4 hours away, so I drove down the night before … 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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Flip Is The Symptom, Not The Problem.
Cisco has killed the Flip. Twitter and blogs are replicating this announcement out to the far corners of the Earth. I am cheering as are plenty of other network centric people. My friend Tom(@networkingnerd) spun up a quick post on … Continue reading
Wrapping My Head Around The Nexus1000v – Part 1
****Note – I am NOT in any way shape or form a VMware expert. I can’t guarantee you that I will be 100% correct in my terminology or representation of VMware, VMotion, VSphere, etc. I apologize in advance. I am … Continue reading
Posted in 1000v, cisco, data center, nexus, virtualization
Tagged 1000v, datacenter, nexus, virtualization
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Competing With Cisco
***Please note that these are my own thoughts and not those of my employer. First and foremost, I have to credit Jimmy Ray Purser from Cisco for putting the idea for this post in my head. Back in late April … Continue reading