Don’t Miss the TechWiseTV Data Center Show This Week

Data Center host Steve Phillips will walk us through ‘The Five Golden Rules of Branch Office Consolidation’ with one of our favorite repeat guests Noam Syrkin. Check out the preview video here:

Posted by Robb Boyd on September 21, 2009

Focus on Energy - No Flash in the Pan

It is really good to see such long term, focused attention being given to energy issues. We have done multiple shows on ‘Green’ subjects over the last few seasons: Network Energy Efficiency with a great pre-launch dig into the Cisco …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on August 13, 2009

Show Notes - Unlocking the Potential of Virtualization

Looking for Show Notes?  Our latest Data Center Episode “Unlocking the Potential of Virtualization” featuring the debut of our Data Center Expert, Steve Phillips!  (Register to watch live on 7/30 and available to watch as a VoD right after!) The …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on July 29, 2009

Defending Your Network in 256 Bytes or Less

Jimmy Ray Purser is hosting another one of his interactive webex based workshops that you really don’t want to miss.  If are you are already familiar with your show than you probably know that security and networking probably rank highest …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on July 27, 2009

Live Today: Revolution on the Network Edge

Are you registered to see this? Don’t miss the live Q&A…this show is all about the ASR 1000: Quantum Flow IOS XE Webex Node Design Considerations Looking for more detail?

Posted by Robb Boyd on July 23, 2009

A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes.

TechWiseTV Episode 47 “Routing Revolution on the Network Edge” Show Notes The ASR 1000 series of routers is very simply answering the challenge of ever escalating demand. Demand for more speed, smaller form factors, less energy, on and on and …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on July 20, 2009

New ASR 1000 Enhancements for Service Provider

We have a very exciting, very technical show coming up on July 23…we are featuring a single product/technology set…this is not entirely normal but it is worth doing on occasion.  This show also represents the very early stages of us …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on July 09, 2009

Think Inside the Box - Phase 2

110 qualified teams from 75 countries submitted entries in phase 1 as they dreamed about what would do if they won the $100,000. purse. The judging panel narrowed it down to the very best ideas and 10 teams made the …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on July 08, 2009

PBX Migration - Avoiding the Headaches

Times certainly have changed.  The TDM based PBX is no longer considered the best way to do things and EVERY vendor that makes a phone system is pursuing the IP Telephony market.  Trouble is, many of these vendors are struggling …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on June 24, 2009

Award Winning Corporate Video

Great news.  We just learned that two of our shows have won ‘Telly Awards’! TechWiseTV Episode 36 “Energy Efficiency in the Data Center” featuring one of our favorite repeat guests, Rob Aldrich, won in the informercial category. BizWiseTV Episode 20: …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on June 23, 2009

Get the Scoop on CiscoLive and CiscoLive Virtual

Who is going to CiscoLive!?  Hands down this is easily my favorite event of the year - although we look at it as an annual homecoming with all our friends there are obviously going to be many people who just …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on June 12, 2009

Protecting the Internet Edge

Jimmy Ray hosted one of his ‘white hat hacking master classes’ as one viewer termed it. Massive response yesterday to a great webex based security chat complete with video and application sharing. Record numbers registered and showed up.  Here are …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on June 05, 2009

Passionate about Security

We are having another ‘Technology Workshop’ this Thursday and the title is ‘Protecting the Internet Edge’ featuring our own Jimmy Ray Purser. As I was chatting with JR about this one, I am firmly convinced you DO NOT want to …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on June 02, 2009

Security Questions

What a fantastic show last week - “Crime Still Pays” featuring Patrick Peterson and Kevin Kennedy taped LIVE from the RSA 2009 show.  (You can catch the recording right now with no waiting).  We had questions and some consistency with …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on May 24, 2009

Network Testing Reaches Breaking Point

Jimmy Ray caught up with Phil Trainor from BreakingPoint while at the RSA Conference…and then I happended to sit next to Kyle Flaherty, their Marketing Director on the plane ride home…(they are based in Austin, TX). Chance? I think not …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on May 15, 2009

Episode 45 - Crime Still Pays - Show Notes

 This show airs on Thursday, May 21 @ 10 AM PST. Register Now! Check out the preview: SHOWNOTES!  One of the first things you may notice about this show is that we did it 100% at the RSA conference…that is …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on May 14, 2009

Switching Kitchen

There relatively few things that Jimmy Ray enjoys more than fishing.  He LOVES anything having to do with routing and switching.  Switching Kitchen is a great concept from one of our sister marketing teams on the switching side - Victoria …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on May 11, 2009

Data Driven Control Freaks Unite!

New show airing this Thursday - please don’t miss TWTV 44 - Network Management: The Rest of the Story Should we doing a show on Network Management?  Based on the responses for this blog as well as what Jimmy Ray …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 27, 2009

RSA Security Conference Day 1

Jimmy Ray will be prowling the conference floor here at the Moscone Center today while I host 6 different security guests on our main stage. I am not entirely sure what Jimmy Ray may dig up…more on that later…but our …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 21, 2009

The Real Data Center Story on UCS

The Cisco Unified Computing System has a fascinating history that highlights the genius of multiple icons of networking from Vmware, to Sun and to multiple Cisco acquisitions dating all the way back through the Andiamo acquisition. David Lawler was a …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 17, 2009

Virtual Port Channels: Building Networks without Spanning Tree

Virtualization technologies currently require Layer 2 Ethernet connectivity to function properly. With the increased use of these types of technologies in data centers and now even across data center locations, organizations are shifting from a highly scalable Layer 3 network …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 17, 2009

Join Us at RSA Security Next Week!

The big show continues this year for security minded folks and once again, Jimmy Ray and I will be prowling around the expo floor. This is a very corporate show of course but there are always some decent storylines and …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 17, 2009

Protocol Fuzzing with Jimmy Ray

Jimmy Ray allows one of his hacking classes to get off topic but loves the result. New blog entry from our favorite geek over at Network World on Protocol Fuzzing. Updated - I missed a chance to recommend Jimmy Ray’s …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 09, 2009

It Really is Disruptive. That’s a Good Thing.

‘Dawn of the New Data Center’ launches this Thursday (April 9), as episode 43 for TechWiseTV and by all indications this looks to be our latest Data Center show.  The timing of this show remains right on the mark I …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 06, 2009

Conficker Bot Technical Discussion Today

For those of you who did not make it to our live discussion today…we did two of them, one on Conficker and the other on the new Data Center Technologies.  Our good friend Josh Stephen’s from Solar Winds joined in …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on April 01, 2009

Today, Everything Changes

Gosh there has been a ton of hype and build up around this launch.  Finally today, Cisco releases the Unified Computing System and all the rumor mongering can cease. However, this perhaps gets even more fun now as people get …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on March 16, 2009

How do you really feel?

Jimmy Ray has decided to open up a bit more on his blog over at Network World, he titles it “Network Management Sucks.”  There is a fair bit of feedback coming back at him as he is sharing his change …Read more.

Posted by Robb Boyd on February 26, 2009