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I attended a Cisco event yesterday titled “Cisco Tech Days.” It was an all-day seminar by Cisco SEs on two areas of technology: Advanced Campus Topics Branch-WAN Topics It was [...]

There’s really no great story for the Netcordia made it through that process, as did several other names.  Sorry, no magic, no inspiration, no family member names, or trees**.  Just [...]

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There are several key components used by successful IT and networking organizations: People Processes Tools People are the most important assets, followed by proper processes, then the tools to implement [...]

Got it?  It’s a checklist of checklists, all about IT processes.  The official name is IT Compliance Institute.  There are some useful checklists for various IT functions that would be [...]

Today, I was talking to one of PCI DSS compliance, as they have obligation to the credit card companies to protect end user data. They have started to use NetMRI [...]

We’ve created a neat poster outlining the most common network problems that we encounter in today’s networks.  Now, a list of 25 network problems wouldn’t be very interesting all by [...]

It is always great to get feedback directly from our customers and I had the privilege of a good exchange of information with Matthew Almand of Texas A&M University.  They [...]

I had the privilege of reviewing a neat paper, Network Topology Discovery, by Eric Siegel, a technical analyst at the Burton Group.  His paper covers a many aspects of network [...]

I’ve been doing a quarterly publication for a number of years called [email protected]). -Terry _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Re-posted with Permission  NetCraftsmen would like to acknowledge Infoblox for their permission to re-post this [...]

Well, I’m now recertified; having passed the written (350-001) this morning.  My challenge, like many of the long-term CCIEs, is that my job is far removed from daily operations, which [...]

I’ve written here (and in our Forum) about visualization and why a lot of visualization isn’t very useful.  An interesting parallel concept is that of auralization, which is to sound [...]