April 6, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

4+1 Practices for Effective Lifelong IT Learning (Part 1)

9 min read

The debate of what we should be learning seems to be a more frequent topic today. For instance, there’s been a long-standing question for each new networker: after learning a little about routing and switching, does a relative newbie dive deep into route/switch? Move on to learn voice? Or security? Data Center? Or for emerging […]

April 3, 2015

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FlexPod for the Future

6 min read

I’ve been a huge fan of Cisco and NetApp’s FlexPod since 2011, when I had the pleasure of working with it for the first time.  We had just gotten two brand new UCS Chassis full of B-Series blades, and I was impressed with how quickly I had them up and running.   I wired up the UCS […]

April 2, 2015

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#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 11. UCS E-Series and the Branch in a Box experience

1 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll be talking about the Cisco UCS E-Series with Cisco Technical Marketing Engineers Kishan Ramaswamy and Tony Banuelos. Listen to the Podcast. Learn about the Cisco Champions Program HERE. See a list of all #CiscoChampion Radio podcasts HERE. Cisco SMEs Kishan Ramaswamy, Cisco […]

March 27, 2015

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#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 10. The Mad Scientists’ Cisco Home Lab

5 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll be talking about Cisco Home Labs with Cisco Education Specialist Charles Stizza. Listen to the Podcast. Learn about the Cisco Champions Program HERE. See a list of all #CiscoChampion Radio podcasts HERE. Cisco SMEs Charles Stizza, Cisco Education Specialist Cisco Champion Guest Hosts […]

March 27, 2015

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A Unified Platform Beyond only Cloud as Driver for IoT

3 min read

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been among us for a while, but in recent years we have seen a change in scale, in part due to cheaper sensors that are emerging. Cities are deploying sensors to improve the quality of life for their citizens, while factories are connecting more and more machines and collecting […]

March 26, 2015

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Building an IoT Company in Europe

3 min read

Building an IoT company is a great opportunity to work on things you have never done before.  Here is a list of my conclusions with brief anecdotes about the difficulties of building az IoT company. Choose the size of your funding need wisely When we started, our pre-seed angel investor suggested to close an angel […]

March 25, 2015

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IoT, from Cloud to Fog Computing

6 min read

Introduction Nowadays, there are billions of devices connected to the Internet, and this has led to some advances in the Electronics and Telecommunication technology developments in recent years which resulted in various kinds of very powerful devices with communication and networking capabilities that have attracted the industries to adopt this technology into their daily business […]

March 12, 2015

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A Summary of Cisco VXLAN Control Planes: Multicast, Unicast, MP-BGP EVPN

6 min read

With the adoption of overlay networks as the standard deployment for multi-tenant network, Layer2 over Layer3 protocols have been the favorite among network engineers. One of the Layer2 over Layer3 (or Layer2 over UDP) protocols adopted by the industry is VXLAN. Now, as with any other overlay network protocol, its scalability is tied into how […]

March 11, 2015

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#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 9. Collaboration: Cisco Unity Connection

1 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll be talking about Collaboration and Cisco Unity Connection with Cisco Technical Marketing Engineers Chris Ward and Chris Barlow. Listen to the Podcast. Learn about the Cisco Champions Program HERE. See a list of all #CiscoChampion Radio podcasts HERE. Cisco SMEs Chris Ward, Cisco […]

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