We are almost at the 3 year mark for TechWIseTV and Jimmy Ray and I could not be more surprised. There is always the very real fear that when you embark upon a program like we did that you risk getting into something that may not last. Good ideas come and go and marketing teams can often be guilty of chasing the shiny ‘next thing.’ To the credit of the people that created our team and the perserverance of a great group of people be…

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So, apparently, a few of you are interested about what we will have to say at around OpenFlow and software defined networking (SDN).  If you are lucky enough to heading off to CiscoLive! in San Diego, then there are a couple of things that you should definitely put on your to-do list. We have three sessions you should check out: From the Trenches: Delivering Real Software Defined Networking Solutions (PNLRST-4007):  A panel discussion with Cisc…

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Tags: Cisco Live 2012, SDN

I’ve just finished watching the CiscoLive keynote webcast of Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers from San Francisco. All this talk of video, collaboration and virtualization makes much sense to me as I’m a whopping 45 miles away in San Jose and still getting much the same experience. The following are notes I jotted down while watching the webcast. SVP Carlos Dominguez (@carlosdominguez on twitter) was funny in his intro and welc…

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So, if you are a networking geek of any sort, you should be listening to PacketPushers–for both the education and the sheer entertainment value.  This year, we tried something a little different with the PacketPushers team and had them join us onsite at CiscoLive.  Below are six of the podcasts they produced for us: PQ Show 002 – Cisco Cloud Services Router With Prashant Shenoy PQ Show 003 – Cisco onePK With Richard Pruss PQ Show 004 – Catalys…

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Tags: Catalyst 4500, Cisco ONE, cloud services router, N1KV, nexus, onePK, Packet Pushers, podcast, SDN, social media

So the other day my wife told me the water in the shower didn’t seem as hot as it normally does. “Maybe something wrong with the water heater?” she said. I did all the normal checks: no water on the basement floor, pilot is lit, check, check. All seems ok. We happened to go to Home Depot to buy some other stuff, but we ran into the water heater guy.  His diagnosis: water heater going bad. (Full admission, it is 11 years old) I kind of buy his st…

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Tags: automation, Borderless Networks, Cisco Partners, ciscolive, Converged Plantwide Ethernet, CPwE, data center, HMI, Home Depot, Industrial Intelligence, Manufacturing, SCADA, Sustainability, Virtual Data Center, Water