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The HP Network Tech Day was a good introduction to HP Networking. Just like the first meeting with your Account Manager and Sales Engineer where we size each other up, talk generalities, and be nice to each other but there wasn’t enough time to get down to the details.
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Loading ...Troubleshooting, it’s something we all do. It may be your parents Internet connection, the company photocopier, your kid’s car or the core network of a medium sized bank. However, troubleshooting is not like that, it’s more like football, years of watching and playing does not guarantee to make you a superstar. However, with troubleshooting, just like football, it does teach you enough so you have an opinion on how it should be done.
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If the VMware vFabric speculation is true, then the service focussed data centre designs just got very, very, interesting.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Having spent over twenty years in I.T. and over seventeen years in networking, I’ve worked with a lot of Network Engineers. Career progression has always been a hot topic. I’ve always been interested in learning how people have found themselves in the job they now do. Here are ten tips from a Technical Services Director (or Vice President) on how to work for a Reseller.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This week has seen a lot of talk in the industry around the needs for FibreChannel over Token Ring. Lets take a looks at the Myths and Magic of this amazing opportunity
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Greg Ferro looks at Bisectional Bandwidth as a design technique in the data centre and why the impact of Layer 2 Multi-Pathing is a vital part of Data Centre Network Design.
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Joe Astorino says : Today I would like to share with you all a few obscure specific details related to both BGP and redistribution. Having things like this down will be important to your success in the lab. I know that some of the details I will be discussing were surprises to me when I first learned them, so hopefully it will help you guys out!
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So a while back, Cisco, VMWare and EMC announced that they are forming a partnership to co-operatively sell and support products in a joint venture named Acadia. Selected engineers and sales grunts, USD$200 million bucks and “no large customer left untouched” door to door marketing campaign. Is there anything to it ?
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You can take the view that Cisco Unified Computing System is a product that is carefully designed so that selling it is as easy as possible. A cynical marketing analysis has produced a product that customers can be convinced to buy. Or is it an innovation in server and data centre design that is desperately needed ?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...This post looks at design models for handling the allocation of resources within the Cisco ACE and FWSM modules. In may be relevant to other virtualisation system where allocation of virtual resources needs a strategy.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...DNSsec and it’s impact on Cisco firewalls and networking. Are you ready for the change on the 5th May
(1 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10) Loading ... (2 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10) Loading ...EVERYONE – Autosensing on ethernet works just fine, and all manufacturers recommend using autosensing. Why aren’t you !
Lets look at how it works and why you should be using it.
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The thing about firewalls is that all networks have them. Once, firewall expertise was rare and a special job focus. Now, firewalls are like noses – everyone’s got one.
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The debate on Stackable vs Chassis based switches has a long and proud pedigree. Here is my addition to the debate.
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Welcome to IOS 15, Feature licensing and complicated maintenance procedures….
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