File Catalyst:Unlimitech Software: Pretending to Be a Customer

So a “Mark Johnson  —  makr324@hotmail.com”  —  posts a com­ment on my art­icle on How Long it Takes to trans­fer data :

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.

Enterprise Cloud Computing — Build Your Own With Cisco VFrame — Why Wait ?

I can see some value in external Cloud Computing, but why not just build your own with Cisco ? Take a bunch of leftover machines, that old stor­age sys­tem and get a demo ver­sion and make your own.

Cisco Security Manager — Shortcut to Restarting Services

If you work with CiscoWorks, you often need to restart ser­vices for changes to take effect. This tip shows how to chain the stop and the start together on Microsoft Windows.

RFC 1925 — the Twelve Networking Truths

Every net­work engin­eer should read this RFC, and under­stand what it means. Possibly, should be required read­ing for all CCNA candidates.

Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Software Version 2.1.0 Ships

I notice that Cisco has released 2.1.0 for the Cisco ACE today. A quick read of the release notes show lots of fun good­ies packed inside. These fea­tures are start­ing to ‘catch up’ with the F5.
I have installed the ANM 1.2 man­age­ment plat­form in the last couple of weeks and will post a review soon.
Release Notes here

On the Death and Rebirth of IOS — Why Did It Take So Long ?

The mar­ket has been com­ment­ing on the rise of Juniper for some years and the fact that Cisco has not been able to stop them grow­ing. Well, we can now see that Cisco was listen­ing to the stock mar­ket by spend­ing a lot of time and money devel­op­ing a new oper­at­ing sys­tem. Oh yeah, and some new […]

Is the Cisco Nexus 7000 Needed Today — or Tomorrow ?

No doubt that the Cisco Nexus 7000 switch is a fine piece of tech­no­logy. The per­form­ance and through­put is wel­come, and clearly offers some fine new cap­ab­il­it­ies such as vir­tu­al­isa­tion, ISSU, bet­ter OOB and so on. I am sure that every­one can per­ceive the pos­it­ive mes­sages, lets face it, Cisco isn’t going to be shy in telling […]

Reserved IP Address Range for Testing — RFC 2544

I have been look­ing at a multi host data centre and am using MPLS to securely share cer­tain resources and con­sid­er­ing what archi­tec­ture con­sid­er­a­tions for Network Management.
Lets define the prob­lem. Network Management is soft­ware and serv­ers that col­lect data from my net­work equip­ment and presents it to me in some use­ful form. Add to this […]

Custom Sizing Your MMC RDP Console

Following on from yes­ter­days post I was look­ing at some of the options and real­ised that you actu­ally set the size of you RDP console.Since I use a Mac Book Pro with a wide screen the stand­ard res­ol­u­tion are not very help­ful, and I like to have fixed size win­dows, chan­ging them to use the avail­able width is a good thing™

Multiple RDP Consoles — Who Knew ?

I have been work­ing with Windows folks for a long time, and I have not seen this tool used before. As a net­work­ing guy maybe I missed it.
I often deploy a num­ber of Windows serv­ers to mon­itor and man­age net­works (typ­ic­ally with open source and Ciscoworks). I recently dis­covered the MMC Snap-​​​​in for Remote Desktops which makes my life simpler […]