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 ?
21st August 2008 by 18 Comments
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
6th August 2008 by Leave a Comment
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
19th March 2008 by 7 Comments
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
14th March 2008 by 1 Comment
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 [...]
On the Death and Rebirth of IOS – Why Did It Take So Long ?
5th March 2008 by 3 Comments
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 [...]
Is the Cisco Nexus 7000 Needed Today – Or Tomorrow ?
25th February 2008 by 2 Comments
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 us about them.
However, lets consider the issue from the perspective of the architect/designer and how Cisco has positioned this in the marketplace. From an architecture perspective, I will need to commit a substantial capex to the product and a much larger amount of resource cost to transition a network to use the product. Even if I am building new data centres (and thus have no legacy), changes to operating standards, procedures, management tools and other orchestration issues present substantial barriers to adoption.
Reserved IP Address Range for Testing – RFC 2544
5th February 2008 by 1 Comment
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 [...]
Custom Sizing Your MMC RDP Console
31st January 2008 by 3 Comments
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 [...]
Multiple RDP Consoles – Who Knew ?
29th January 2008 by 5 Comments
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 [...]
