Rant — My EtherealMind

Rant: How Much Does Cisco Live Europe REALLY Cost ?

15th November 2010 By Greg Ferro 11 Comments

Got a nasty shock this morning when I went pay for Cisco Live Europe.

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The Case for Network Emulators

24th October 2010 By Greg Ferro 14 Comments

It’s time to start demanding that vendors make their emulators available to their customers so that we can save money, improve customer value, and increase the Networking Market.

Filed Under: Blessay, Blog, Rant Tagged With: Cisco, Dynamips, Operation, Opinion, Rant, worklife

The Myths and Magic of Fibrechannel Over Token Ring

17th July 2010 By Greg Ferro 15 Comments

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

Filed Under: Blessay, Blog, Rant, Storage

The TRILLing Brain Split

6th July 2010 By Ivan Pepelnjak 3 Comments

The split personality Cisco has exposed at Cisco Live 2010 is amazing: on one hand you have the Data Center team touting the benefits of Routing at Layer 2 (an oxymoron if Iíve ever seen one), on the other hand you have Russ White extolling the virtues of good layer-3 design in the CCDE training (the quote I like most: ìIt all meets at Layer 3 … thatís why CCDE is layer-3 centricî). If youíre confused, youíre not the only one, so letís try to analyze whatís going on.

Filed Under: Rant Tagged With: dcb, Design, trill

Cisco Cius – That’s Not Innovation, It’s ME TOO.

3rd July 2010 By Greg Ferro 12 Comments

So Cisco “announced” the Cius Android tablet. It’s not innovation. It’s just a cheap knockoff that’s easy to do.

Filed Under: Blog, Rant Tagged With: Cisco, Opinion, Rant

Has IT Certification Become Nothing More Than a Racket?

20th May 2010 By admin 9 Comments

Has IT certification become nothing more than a racket? Something I heard this week made me really start to wonder?

Filed Under: Blog, CCIE, Opinion, Rant Tagged With: certification, Rant, study, worklife

Rant: Deleting My Facebook Acount – Done

18th May 2010 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

I have had serious concerns about Facebook exploiting my information for some time. Their drive for growth and to make money from their captured audience has seen them move over the line of what I regard as acceptable behaviour into unethical behaviour.

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Rant: It’s a Yes / No Question & Cisco IOS Software Licensing Hell Begins Here

24th March 2010 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

For Crom’s sake, answer the question. Who let the marketing people write this stuff!!!

OH, AND Cisco IOS Software Licensing hell starts now. I’m calling it.

Filed Under: Blog, Cisco, Rant Tagged With: Blog, Cisco, Rant

Google: Meet Skipfish, Our Automated Web Security Scanner. Security Industry – You Failed.

21st March 2010 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

Google releases Skipfish into open source for automated web security scanning. The fact that this exists is an inditement on IT Security and their failure to address threats.

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

Rant: Brocade Requires Login & Service Contract to Access Foundry Manuals

2nd March 2010 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

So, I’m working on some Foundry gear and I’d like get access to some manuals to learn how Foundry works. Except they are hidden behind a login for valid service contract holders. Whats up with that ?