Blessay:Cloud Computing Not “Essential Service”, More Like “Public Transport”

I believe that Cloud Computing is unlikely to become Essential Service, but will be more like Public Transport — cheap, mass mar­ket, lim­ited func­tion and “accept­able” for some.

Blessay: FCoE Is JUST a Transition Technology

Chris Evans believes that “FCoE” will rule the world. Hah. I believe it’s just a trans­ition tech­no­logy that drags Storage out of it’s closed, pro­pri­et­ary mind­set into the open col­lab­or­at­ive world. Data Networks can eas­ily adapt.

Blessay: Working for a Reseller or End User Is Different Like Doctoring and Parenting

Where you choose to work in the Networking Industry can come to down to a simple choice: Are you a Doctor or a Parent ?

Blessay: Sixty Five Percent — Cisco’s Gross Profit Margin

Lets be hon­est, there are many things that Cisco does well, and some things that Cisco doesn’t do well. Somebody once said that being a suc­cess­ful com­pany is to do more good things than bad.
For me, one area that is becom­ing a big­ger and big­ger design prob­lem is the price on Cisco products. Recently I took more notice of […]

Blessay:VTP Version 3.0 — Is VTP Making a Comeback ?

VTP Version 3.0  —  Is VTP mak­ing a comeback ?
I found this doc­u­ment at Cisco​.com today about VTPv3. What ? VTPv3 ? I had to dig into that.

On the Art of Network Diagrams and Presentation

Network Diagrams are the most effect­ive com­mu­nic­a­tion tools that are avail­able for net­work engin­eers. Frankly, a doc­u­ment is nice, but often con­tains only sup­port­ing inform­a­tion. Lets take some time to look at how a good look­ing dia­gram can be made.

IPv5 — What Was It ?

I have been work­ing on IPv6 lately, but now know­ing about IPv5 has made me feel that some­thing was miss­ing. A little dig­ging, and there it is — the little known IPv5 (oth­er­wise known as ST2).

Blessay: My Life of Study — Planning, Tips and Thoughts

I was asked how I organ­ise myself to study, and how do I make time. It not really easy to write it out because I make choices that suit my life, but if someone wants my recom­mend­a­tions or sug­ges­tions, here they are.

OS X:Using Web Kit for HTTP, Website Analysis and Network Testing

Safari (or Webkit) has a neat debug­ging fea­ture built in. It is avail­able in both OS X and Windows ver­sions. When test­ing per­form­ance of web­sites through applic­a­tion inspec­tion on fire­walls or load bal­an­cer it can be a use­ful tool to get visibility.

Blessay: IT Training Lessons From the Olympics

While the cur­rent Olympics is about as inter­est­ing as review­ing fire­wall rules, the cur­rent suc­cess of first world nations shows that money CAN buy you suc­cess. I’m hop­ing IT Managers can learn train­ing les­sons from this.

Why Didn’t Nortel Do Better ? Cisco Wasn’t Always the Top Dog.

In response to Omar Sultan at Cisco on ‘Why you want this switch ?’ . In my view, Cisco IOS was buggy,slow and the hard­ware product was a poor design, but Nortel got the usab­il­ity and tech­nical sup­port very wrong. Customers chose Cisco any­way because the Cisco TAC made the prob­lems not seem so bad.