Author Archives: Colin Lynch

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About Colin Lynch

Technical Architect and Data Center Subject Matter Expert. I do not work or speak for Cisco or any other vendor.

What’s next for AI Infrastructure?

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Colin Lynch

Don’t worry if some of the terms below are new to you, I have linked my glossary here Over the last year or so I’ve had so many meetings, read so many papers, watched hundreds of hours of educational videos, … Continue reading →

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Can thinking in 3’s Solve AI’s Power Problem?

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Colin Lynch

As a network specialist for over 35 years , I can ‘think in binary’ can make quite complex subnet / supernet calculations in my head, from years of looking at IP addresses and immediately identifying whether they are on the … Continue reading →

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Essential AI Terms: Your Comprehensive Glossary

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Colin Lynch

I spend a lot of time explaining AI terms and acronyms in conversations particularly network related terms, so I decided to create a single reference post with the most common ones. If you’re starting your AI journey or just need … Continue reading →

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Time to get blogging again!

Posted on January 31, 2024 by Colin Lynch

Wow! just noticed it’s been a while since my last post. Took a blogging break during covid and then just never got back in the habit. Well time me-thinks to get back on the horse and start blogging again now … Continue reading →

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Cisco HyperFlex vSphere Cluster Expansion

Posted on September 11, 2019 by Colin Lynch

In this video I expand our Cisco HyperFlex cluster from 5 to 6 converged nodes.

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Cisco Champions Radio: Hyperflex Gets Edgy!

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Colin Lynch

Join me Darren Williams, Daren Fulwell and Lauren Friedman as we discuss the latest innovations with Cisco HyperFlex 4.0 Recorded for Cisco Champions Radio at Cisco Live Europe 2019  Barcelona. Click the image below for the podcast.  

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Cisco Intersight Setup and Configuration

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Colin Lynch

I’m sure by now you have heard of Cisco Intersight. Intersight is Cisco’s SaaS offering for monitoring and managing all your Cisco UCS and Hyperflex platforms from a single cloud based GUI. And the best part is the base licence … Continue reading →

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Cisco Live Europe 2019

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Colin Lynch

Another great Cisco Live Europe this year, as usual as the week progresses the dummer I feel, as I see there is still so many topics I don’t know enough about. But as always I come away wiser and with … Continue reading →

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VMware NSX-V Cross-VC Failover

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Colin Lynch
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An Epyc new addition to the UCS Family!

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Colin Lynch

  Back in February of this year, when I read an article in The Register, announcing that Raghu Nambiar, the then chief technology officer for UCS servers had joined AMD. I didn’t think too much of it, but when I also … Continue reading →

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