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Right now I’m on a flight to Las Vegas for Cisco Live 2010. Since I have time I’m looking at my session schedule for the week and continuing to juggle things to find that right balance. Too many sessions, not enough days. What jumps out at me though, are the number of sessions and amount [...]

The first installment of Securing the Enterprise – LockBOX HOW DO I MANAGE RISK WITHIN THE CLOUD? Cloud computing is becoming one of the hottest trends in the enterprise, and information security practitioners, like myself, must understand the significant changes from the implementation of the cloud and the enterprise risk that results. The evolution of [...]

The recent hack attempts and successes against many companies, including Google, have been the talk in many IT circles and commercial organizations lately. It was a wake up call on several different levels. For one, you have a pretty successful infiltration of some very large and important organizations. You also have Google, the best known [...]

We’re starting to see a lot of traction with the Cisco Nexus 1000v distributed software switch.  The downside is that it’s a little hard to explain without a good demonstration so while working in the lab this week I created a video that should give you a better idea of what the Nexus 1000v encompasses.  [...]

So, it’s over.  I’m enjoying my last night in San Fran.  Went up to Fisherman’s Wharf (tourist hell, as I call it) and had some crab…..  Now I’m sitting at a Starbucks with a great view of the street so I can people watch.  That’s my one complaint about San Francisco….everything down here closes at [...]

Today started early with the first session at 7:30am.  That’s one case where a bit of jet lag helps out, it didn’t help out when I got back to the hotel at close to midnight.  The sessions today were more in-depth and packed with information.
Fibre Channel Storage Area Network Design
This was a lot of information [...]