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CCIE Program Refresh, My thoughts.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by

The world of technology as we know is changing fast, faster than many predicted. This is certainly true in the data center. In the “Old days” (more than 3 years ago) most of my time was spent evangelising a particular … Continue reading →

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Unification Part 2: FCoE Demystified

Posted on September 3, 2014 by

As promised here is the 2nd part of the Unified Fabric post, where we get under the covers with FCoE. The first and most important thing to clarify is as its name suggests Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) still uses … Continue reading →

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OTV doesn’t kill people, people kill people.

Posted on July 28, 2014 by

I was designing a Datacentre migration for one of our clients, they have two DC’s 10km apart connected with some dark fibre. Both DC’s were in the south of England but the client needed to vacate the current buildings and … Continue reading →

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