Friday, March 12, 2010

Top 5 Things About Cisco Says “Internet to Change Forever” Event Today

March 9, 2010 by Greg Ferro · 5 Comments 

Cisco Marketing Dept is attempt­ing another lame meme today by claim­ing that Cisco will “Change The Internet”. Here is my Top 5 things about Cisco chan­ging the Internet.

If I Can’t Fix It, I’ll Break It. And That’s OK, It Needed Fixing Anyway.

If I Can’t Fix It, I’ll Break It. And That’s OK, It Needed Fixing Anyway.

March 7, 2010 by Greg Ferro · 11 Comments 

When explain­ing out­age risks in a change review, I often need to grit my teeth and say quietly to myself.….

The Lay of the Network Hero

February 18, 2010 by Greg Ferro · 1 Comment 

I have decided to undergo an image change. This mantle of mod­esty ill becomes me and I need a con­fid­ence boost. Let all the IT people recite the lay of the Networking Hero!

Network Dictionary — Eye Dee Ten Tee

January 30, 2010 by Greg Ferro · 1 Comment 

Define Eye Dee Ten Tee

Network ZEN: Management or Monitoring

January 20, 2010 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

Network ZEN on Network Management

My Twelve Networking Days of Christmas

My Twelve Networking Days of Christmas

December 23, 2009 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

My Twelve Days of Networking Christmas.

Blinken Lights, It’s All About the Blinking Lights

August 19, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 4 Comments 

Classic Slashdot.

Network ZEN: Stackable or Chassis Switches

Network ZEN: Stackable or Chassis Switches

August 3, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 7 Comments 

The Zen Master was med­it­at­ing over his net­work, at one­ness with the Flow. A stu­dent approached the mas­ter and asked ‘may I not stack the c3750 to cre­ate more con­nec­tions to the Flow’.

Humour:Cloud Computing — a Visual Tale

April 2, 2009 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

I saw this pic­ture today titled “Blue Sky Thinking”. I was struck by its Cloud Computing references.….

Top 5 Things About the Cisco Data Centre 3.0 Announcement Today [Humour]

March 16, 2009 by Greg Ferro · 3 Comments 

Just before the much bal­ly­hooed launch of Cisco sup­posed serv­ers, let look at Etherealmind’s Top 5 Things about Cisco’s launch today.

Top 5 Cisco Christmas Wish List — Dear Santa

December 16, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 4 Comments 

I have been wait­ing all year for new products, new fea­tures and, in some cases, for things to just work. It seems time to think what presents a Cisco Santa could bring me.

Top 4 Things IPexpert Will Say About Internetwork Expert CCIE 2.0 Announcement

October 31, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 5 Comments 

Here are the Top 4 things IPExpert will say about yes­ter­days announce­ment by InternetExpert. -> Warning  —  con­tains sarcasm.

Nerdgasm: Laptop Art — Gotta Have Some

October 31, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 3 Comments 

I have art­work on my laptop. It’s my way of stick­ing it to cor­por­ate cul­ture. Sit down in busi­ness meet­ing with a laptop of bright col­ours  —  looks of envy! Make the world a happy place.

Top 5 Things About Cisco “Viral” Announcement

October 30, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 4 Comments 

Here is my take on the Top 5 things about the Cisco announce­ment today

Top 5 Things That Internetwork Expert Might Announce Today.

October 30, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 6 Comments 

My top five list of things that IE might announce later today

The Real Job Description for Network Architect

October 9, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 7 Comments 

Recently, I was asked to write the Job Advertisement for my own role (yeah, per­sonal devel­op­ment thing). I just couldn’t res­ist the oppor­tun­ity to write a fol­low on to What is a CCIE ?.
—Warning Sarcasm Ahead—

The Difference Between Network Managers and Server Managers — Pictorial

October 3, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 1 Comment 

As I am pre­par­ing the present­a­tion to man­age­ment on the pro­posed Cloud Computing infra­struc­ture as a res­ult of the con­sulta­tion, I am put together the fol­low­ing pictorial rep­res­ent­a­tion of the data centre per­ceived scope for Network and Server Managers.

The Difference Between Network and Server Engineers — Pictorial

September 18, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 12 Comments 

I have been plan­ning cloud com­put­ing sys­tems recently, and had many long dis­cus­sions with dif­fer­ent teams. I have pre­pared the fol­low­ing dia­gram to show the per­cep­tual dif­fer­ence between how each team per­ceives the data centre.

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