2009 April — My EtherealMind

Network Dictionary – Unicorn Tears

30th April 2009 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

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Book Review: Project California: Data Center Virtualization Server

28th April 2009 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

While this book has flaws, its an excellent and detailed introduction to Cisco Unified Computing. Focussing on higher level elements, its a great resource for Network Architects and will put you in the game against HP and IBM server administrators

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: Cisco, Design

Internets of Interest: 25th Apr – 28th Apr

28th April 2009 By bookmarks 2 Comments

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Design Tip: Cisco Retail Price List, Creating Your Own Price Estimates

26th April 2009 By Greg Ferro 16 Comments

Not everyone knows that Cisco publishes their Price List every month. And for designers who want to quickly evaluate various design it is an essential part of your design toolkit. We look creating your own price estimates using Excel and Cisco Price List.

Filed Under: Blog, Design, Featured Tagged With: Design, Operation

Blog:a Lot of Major Security Annoucements – Strangely Buried in One Big Press Release.

25th April 2009 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

New ASA 8.2 with botnet and new VPN functions, Major version of IPS firmware – V7.0. New SAFE Design Guides. Really important new features, buried in a press release.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Cisco, Design, Operation, Security

Rant:”Investment Protection” On the Cisco C6500 – It Isn’t Quite That Simple

25th April 2009 By Greg Ferro 5 Comments

Claiming “investment protection” for the Cisco C6500 is a bit rich and glib marketing talk. I may be fond of it but more like a faithful old dog that really wasn’t too bright.

Filed Under: Cisco, Rant Tagged With: Cisco

Internets of Interest: 14th Apr – 22nd Apr

22nd April 2009 By bookmarks Leave a Comment

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The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel – A Reasonably Complete View

20th April 2009 By Greg Ferro 11 Comments

A number of storage bloggers have been questioning the relevance of FCoE and why would you bother with it. Given the size of marketing budgets pushing FCoE and the reality distortion this generates, lets look at the case AGAINST FCoE.

Filed Under: Blessay, Blog, Design, Operation, Opinion, Storage Tagged With: fcoe, iscsi, Storage

Hosting Problems With Mediatemple Again

16th April 2009 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

I’m continuing to have problems with Mediatemple who are my hosting provider. Their hosting appear to be dropping connections in middle of page loading. If you are NOT experiencing this can you let me know ? Comments, Contact Me or Twitter would be great.

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Cisco CCIE 360 Program – Press Here to Add to Cart

15th April 2009 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

I saw Cisco 3660 CCIE study program in an online store today. It struck me as poor value for money. Here’s why…

Filed Under: Blog, Opinion Tagged With: CCIE, Opinion, study