Author Posts - NetCraftsmen, a BlueAlly Company

See You at Cisco Live 2015!

See You at Cisco Live 2015!

See you at #CiscoChampion blogger community. And I hope to encounter several dozen people I haven’t seen or talked to in a while. I’ll be in a Techtorial all day [...]

Mistakes Executives Make

Executive Do’s and Don’ts for Network Installations

During network installations, executives are prone to making key mistakes. Here are the Do’s and Don’ts for the C-suite when it comes to new tech solutions.

Is Your Network Cloud Ready

Is Your Network Cloud Ready?

Is your network cloud ready? We at NetCraftsmen, a Cisco Gold Partner, are hearing this question more often. In a blog just posted on Cisco’s site, we discuss why the [...]

Hybrid WAN or SDN Wan

Hybrid WAN or SD-WAN

Let’s talk about Hybrid WAN or SD-WAN. I do want to start by considering the general state of SDN. Briefly. A Word about the State of SDN When will Software [...]

Networking Field Day

Network Field Day 9 (NFD9): Friday 2/13/2015

For Friday’s Cisco and Network Field Day 9 web page. As noted previously, please tweet me or any of the delegates with any questions you’d like us to ask the [...]

Network Field Day 9 (NFD9): Thursday 2/12/2015

For Thursday’s NetBeez, NEC, and Network Field Day 9 web page. As noted previously, please tweet me or any of the delegates with any questions you’d like us to ask [...]

Networking Field Day

Network Field Day 9 (NFD9): Wednesday 2/11/2015

I’m writing this as I fly out to San Jose for VeloCloud, Pluribus Networks. You the reader are, I hope, looking forward to the live streaming video from Silicon Valley, [...]

NFD9

What’s Network Field Day 9 (NFD9) About?

I’m excited to be heading to Silicon Valley in two weeks as a delegate for Network Field Day 9 (#NFD9). Tech thrills! Highly intelligent and skilled delegates! And leaving behind [...]

Filtering HSRP Revisited

Data Center Interconnect (DCI), filtering HSRP between datacenters as part of optimal forwarding.

The Recent Cisco UCS Announcements (September 4, 2014)

It was great to have the chance to attend the September 4, 2014 UCS GrandSlam event / launch with Tech Field Day. One indicator of the importance of the announcements [...]

Open Networking User Group

ONUG: Open Networking User Group, Fall 2014

I just received an email about Spring ONUG with Tech Field Day. That’s a reminder that flies when you’re having fun — or working a lot. Or both (those occasional [...]

Yankee Stadium

The Upcoming Cisco “UCS Grand Slam” Event

In case you hadn’t noticed yet, Cisco plans a big UCS related announcement for September 4 in New York City. They’re calling it the “UCS Grand Slam”. I and several [...]