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

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

The Harbinger of Death for PABX and IP Telephony

Unlimited voice/​text/​data plans in the UK sig­nal the end of Legacy and IP Telephony mar­ket as we know it.

Opinion: Observations on CCNP Changes and New CCIE SP Ops

Some obser­va­tions on what the changes to the CCNP and CCIE pro­grams tell us about Cisco inten­tions for their cer­ti­fic­a­tion programs.

On Books, E-​​Books, Copyright and Author Return

Ivan Pepelnjak has good rant about people steal­ing books.

How Are You Feeling About Cisco ?

Some people have poin­ted out that I have been Cisco bash­ing lately. Let’s check if it’s just me.

Drobo — Guessing How BeyondRAID Creates Space and Volumes

I got a present­a­tion from the Drobo on their new products, but I find the idea of bey­on­dRAID and their idea of dynam­ic­ally re-​​architecting the drive array to find the optimum and redund­ant con­fig­ur­a­tion to be abso­lutely fascinating.

Rant: People Are Not Valuable or Why I Don’t Attend Office Parties

I am often asked to attend parties with my co-​​workers for people who are leav­ing, Christmas or team parties. Then I real­ised how little it really mattered and got on with my life.

Cisco, EMC, VMware — Living Together Isn’t the Same as Married

A bunch of CEO’s prom­ising to play ‘nice’ with each oth­ers toys is not a con­vin­cing mar­ket­ing exer­cise. Cisco and EMC/​VMware need to merge to get big enough to com­pete with HP /​ IBM.

Rant:My Growing Dislike Of “Cross Marketing”

I pur­chase a new product /​ thing /​ soft­ware. I delight in open­ing /​ using /​ start­ing it for the first time. Then, an advert­ise­ment spews up for a related product. Lousy douchet­ards, if I wanted that, I would have bought it.

My Thoughts on Google ChromeOS Mean for Networking ?

Google’s ChromeOS means a return to stand­ards based net­work­ing, and redu­cing the Microsoft mono­poly. Plus cheap net­books. A quick take on what I’m thinking.

Cisco CCIE 360 Program — Press Here to Add to Cart

I saw Cisco 3660 CCIE study pro­gram in an online store today. It struck me as poor value for money. Here’s why…

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Tidal Software, Inc. — Cisco Systems

Is Cisco buy­ing up Cloud Computing software ?

The Greatest Risk to Cloud Computing ? The Vista Effect.

Everyday brings news of another fail­ure of a “Cloud Computing” ser­vice. It won’t take much in the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate for the mar­ket to take a “Vista view” and not buy it.

How Help Desk SLA’s Lie — “Four Hour Response” My Butt.

I once had to con­tact an out­sourced Help Desk on an urgent mat­ter. I rang the Help Desk and logged my call with the oper­ator. I con­firmed that there was a four hour response. Yeah, right, it took 12 hours to fix it.

Satyam Fraud — Shakes Foundation of Cloud Computing ?

Outsourcing is under threat when one of the big five Indian out­sourcing com­pan­ies is a fraud. And if you think that only the CEO is involved (as he claims) then I have a bridge to sell you. UPDATE: The CFO has gone miss­ing as well as the CEO.

Opinion:if Cisco Moves Into Consumer, What Happens to Enterprise and SP ?

Several pieces have been pos­ted about Cisco announ­cing a major move into the con­sumer elec­tron­ics space. This has me me think­ing that Cisco is no longer ser­i­ous about Enterprise or Service Provider.…..

Opinion:Checkpoint Buys Nokia Security Appliances — Time to Change

Emails and a Register art­icle con­firm that Checkpoint will buy the Nokia hard­ware appli­ance busi­ness. Some thoughts and opin­ions on why its time to ditch your Checkpoint infrastructure.

Domain Tasting Looking Dead — at Last ICANN Is Doing Something

ICANN pos­ted today that AGP deletes are down 84% which means that abuse of the so-​​​​called “domain tast­ing” sys­tem is look­ing dead.
ICANN | AGP Deletes Down by 84%

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