Jay Meistrich is a nomad. But before you use the word “homeless,” consider this: This year, he has skied for a month in France, shared a house in New Zealand (pictured) with other nomads for three months, and toured Paris and Copenhagen for weeks at a time. He also handled…
There is a great deal of interest from those with traditional IT skills—such as enterprise architects, developers, and networking engineers—to steer themselves into a cloud computing career that will not only provide job protection, but pay better as well. However, the path to cloud computing riches is not that clear…
As a junior network engineer at a university I wrote a lot of management scripts in Perl. I had scripts to do things such as check switchport configurations and upgrade switch code. Times have changed a lot since then. The university’s web server now runs in the cloud, rather than…
What if every time you wanted to roll out an app, you didn’t need to figure out what new computer/server you were going to put it on? What if I told you that there were computer resources built into your network? And what if I told you they even had…
On June 20th, Cisco unveiled “The Network. Intuitive.” and with it is “Introducing an entirely new era of networking.” If you’re like me, you’re likely intrigued and asking yourself, “How do I get started?” A great first place to start is to read the overview of what’s new in IOS…
With Open IOS XE, Cisco is changing the game Old-school network engineers probably remember the Cisco 2500-series router. It ran a slow Motorola 68000 CPU, the monolithic IOS operating system, and did one thing only: route packets. Routers and switches have certainly sped up since then, and the operating system…
With Open IOS XE, Cisco is changing the game Old-school network engineers probably remember the Cisco 2500-series router. It ran a slow Motorola 68000 CPU, the monolithic IOS operating system, and did one thing only: route packets. Routers and switches have certainly sped up since then, and the operating system…
Major developments are happening within the Apple and Cisco partnership as discussed by Susie Wee, VP and CTO of Cisco Devnet in her blog posted on June 5. The partnership started with iOS 10 and included the higher-quality Wi-Fi connections and the ability to extend the prioritization of business-critical…
In 1994 and 1995 it was Boyz II Men, Pulp Fiction, and the TV show Friends. I was working as a network technical support engineer, and my team had two key accounts for which we were on the hook, 24×7. One was a large financial institution, and the other was a big…
