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Network Dictionary — Unicorn Tears

April 30, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 1 Comment 

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Book Review: Project California: Data Center Virtualization Server

April 28, 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

Internets of Interest: 25th Apr — 28th Apr

April 28, 2009 by bookmarks · 2 Comments 

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

April 26, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 11 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.

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

April 25, 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.

Rant:“Investment Protection” on the Cisco C6500 — It Isn’t Quite That Simple

April 25, 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.

Internets of Interest: 14th Apr — 22nd Apr

April 22, 2009 by bookmarks · Leave a Comment 

The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel — a Reasonably Complete View

April 20, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 10 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.

Hosting Problems With Mediatemple Again

April 16, 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.

Cisco CCIE 360 Program — Press Here to Add to Cart

April 15, 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…

Network Dictionary — Rubber Duck Debugging

April 15, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 5 Comments 

Why is it Rubber Duck Debugging ?

Charity:Supporting Wynstones School — More Funds Raised

April 14, 2009 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

Another £33.92 raised for Wynstones

Internets of Interest: 7th Apr — 13th Apr

April 13, 2009 by bookmarks · 1 Comment 

Musing:Schooner Launches Specialized Servers for Speedy Data Delivery

April 13, 2009 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tidal Software, Inc. — Cisco Systems

April 9, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 2 Comments 

Is Cisco buy­ing up Cloud Computing software ?

Musing:There Is Hope for the World After All

April 8, 2009 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

Knowing that there are young people like this in the world is excit­ing. Not only does she do math, she does APPLIED math and can clearly artic­u­late the vis­ion and applic­a­tion of the sci­ence.
Network Designers could learn a lot from watch­ing this.
ISEF ’08 Winner: Knot Theory Mathematics
Via Boing Boing.

Internets of Interest: 6th Apr — 7th Apr

April 7, 2009 by bookmarks · Leave a Comment 

Network Dictionary — Coffice

April 5, 2009 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

Definition of COFFICE

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