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Updated CCIE numbers
CCIEs Worldwide Though CCIEs are members of an exclusive group, they can be found in countries on every continent. Use the map and tables below to discover your peers around the world. Americas EMEA...
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Colin McNamara is a seasoned professional with over 15 years experience with network and systems technologies. Holding many certifications, including CCIE, VCP and RHCE, EMCTA and NCIE he specializes...
View ArticleResume – Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233
Colin McNamara, CCIE #18233 – (858) 927-4515 – colin@2cups.com Colin McNamara is a seasoned professional with over 15 years experience with network and systems technologies. Holding many...
View ArticleCisco Certified Design Expert – CCDE – officially released by Cisco
Today was the official release date for the CCDE exam. To quote Cisco - “CCDE Assesses advanced Network Infrastructure Design Principles and Fundamentals for large networks. A CCDE can demonstrate an...
View ArticleMoving towards a Green Data Center – Truth behind the hype
Eplus, Cisco, Hewlett Packard and PG&E held a luncheon this last Friday focused on Green Data Center. I’ll be the first to admit that at first I thought “green” Data Center initiatives were just...
View ArticleReader question – Why are corporations looking for BGP experience?
Mike, a reader of my blog, sent me an email last week with decent question for someone early in their career. Mike is currently looking for a new job. He was curious why so many corporate IT jobs were...
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Cisco is using Linux virtualization and 40 core CPU’s for its next generation...
Cisco recently released a new series of router called the Aggregation Services Router, or ASR for short. This series of routers is mainly targeted at the service provider market, where it is targeted...
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Link Round Up – L2TPv3 FCOE Trill Wounded Warriors
I come accross alot of very interesting material each week, only some of which I write about. These are some links that I found interesting this week. 1. Layer 2 Tunneling Protcol (V3) static and...
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Passed CCDE written and Recertified my CCIE – Killed two birds with one stone
Today was a good day, I knocked two major items of my todo list. The first, was passing the CCDE written. This is the first step towards sitting for a practical examination that will hopefully be...
View ArticleI’ll be at Cisco Live 2008 (networkers) in Orlando all week
It’s that time of year again, time to meet, drink, collaborate and learn. It’s time for Networkers (officially Cisco Live 2008). For some of us that means taking detailed notes all week long, for...
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Darrel Hinshaw – New Triple CCIE [Storage]!!!!!!!
My bud Darrel from our Dallas office passed his third CCIE this afternoon. I think Rick (5x CCIE) put it best in a company wide email earlier this afternoon - From: Rick Davis Sent: Thursday, July 17,...
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Cisco EMC and VMware partneship VCE VBlocks Acadia and the Partner Ecosystem
Cisco EMC and VMware announced a joint partnership called the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition (VCE) . The key goal of the VCE is to accelerate customer migration to virtualization and cloud...
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VSPEX – EMC’s Flexible Reference Architecture Explained
What is VSPEX? There has been a bit of speculation floating around the industry the past couple of weeks regarding what EMC will be releasing. I have heard rumors spreading from the extreme of EMC...
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VSPEX – EMC’s Flexible Reference Architecture Explained
What is VSPEX? There has been a bit of speculation floating around the industry the past couple of weeks regarding what EMC will be releasing. I have heard rumors spreading from the extreme of EMC...
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