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Welcome to the January issue of the CCIE Flyer.
CCIE Flyer 2011
2011 was a year filled with possibilities and I am happy to say was our best year ever at CCIE Agent, Limited. In 2011 readership of the CCIE Flyer continued its growth. I am not a writer I must confess and I am certain that this fault is obvious to some of you. So to the rest of you I wanted to share my enrollment in a writing course to correct my deficiency. I should be through this course about half way through 2012. So until then I will continue to scratch out a few lines here and there as practice. Heck maybe one day I will become a journalist! LOL
TO BE OR NOT TO BE? A QUESTION OF CERTIFICATION
What many of us learned as we embarked upon our IT careers WAS that we sure could have used a mentor. But back in the early 1970s when I got my start there were not so many fellow geeks to choose from. Yup there was a small population of geeks I was exposed to and they were pretty much self-made professionals. The fact is we were mostly selected by an employer by our confidence since most hiring managers did not really understand the technologies they were hiring people like me for. Today we are dealing with professionals that are looking for specialists. The enterprise has grown and now we are called upon to locate very particularly skilled individuals to support parts of that LAN/WAN/MAN/MONSTER!
CCIE LAB PREP A LA Humphrey Cheung
Ok, OK I get it. So you want to be a CCIE and you want to take precious time out to get it done. Precious because typically the average CCIE Lab candidate is cutting into their work time to get it done. With demands like billing or projects or earning an income at your heels and a Honey-Do-List (if you are married) and still for some pulling at your sleeve are the kids in need of attention. So what is a hard working future CCIE to do? Well pick up and leave of course!
STOP YOUR BELLY ACHING!
It’s time for my 1st rant in a couple of years. It’s been building up for a while now, so I am just going to let it all out. The year 2011 ended in the Cisco Certification world with the news that one company CCBOOTCAMP was no longer an authorized Cisco Learning Partner (CLP).
Terry Slattery
95th Percentile Calculation
I originally wrote about the 95th Percentile calculation several years ago as a Tech Tip for the Netcordia web site. It is time to talk about 95th percentile here, where it can continue to be a resource for network administrators. I'm taking this time to expand on the topic, hopefully making it clearer and providing more references.
The Career Diva
Top 10 Diva Columns of 2011
It was a tough year for people seeking full-time jobs and that was reflected in the stories you all clicked on.
The biggest post for CareerDiva for 2011, by a huge margin, was the piece I wrote on how Corporate America was addicted to temporary workers.
Carole Warner Reece
Best Practices for Root Bridge on NX-OS
I have been thinking about best practices for configuring Nexus 7000 switches, and most recently about Layer 2 best practices. One of my customers wanted to set his root bridge and secondary bridge for his VLANs to be his N7Ks. This is a best practice recommended by Cisco. With virtual Port-Channels (vPCs), you should configure the spanning tree root and secondary roots for the member VLANs to be on the N7Ks. Cisco also recommends that you match the primary root bridge and the vPC primary.
Dada Olusegun Enitan CCIE #32395
MY JOURNEY IN ACHIEVING MY CCIE
It all started in year 2006, when I realized that the Nigeria market has less to offer people studying Technology Education in the university. I have always loved anything related to computer right from my early age. My goal was to study computer engineering in the university, but due to cut off mark, I studied technology education which led me into...
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Ethereal Mind
Scaling Virtual Appliances With Embrane
Embrane is coming out of stealth mode today and I received a presentation from them at Network Field Day back in October. Like most startups their business is focussed on specific problem and has a specific use case. To believe in Embrane’s problem you have to believe that all Network Services will reside in virtual machines ( where Network Services are technologies like Load Balancing, Application Acceleration, Intrusion Prevention Systems and Firewalls that operate at Layer 4 of the OSI model).
Nickelby Thane
ITIL Advantages and Disadvantages
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts developed by the UK government’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) to standardize IT management practices. Initially published in 1989, it has gone through a few iterations, namely ITIL v1, ITIL v2 and ITIL v3, its most recent version released in 2007. The current version is comprised of five volumes that focus on Service Management.
Robert X. Cringely
What hath Bob wrought? Looking back at Cringely’s 2011 predictions
Uh-oh, it’s almost time for my annual technology predictions but, as usual, I will begin by taking a look at my predictions from a year ago, which I fear were pretty dismal. Why I’m the only pundit to voluntarily go through this agony I don’t know, but a cursory look shows that I missed with several predictions that I still believe will happen but my timing was off. Still, wrong is wrong.
Todd Lammle
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Aaron's Worthless Words
VRF-Aware IPSec Tunnels
Man, time is hard to come by of late. I’ve had so little time to rest that’s it’s hard to get my thoughts together. It’s a good thing in this case, though, since it’s my fantastic job that’s taking all my time. It’s great to see new network and learn their internals…especially when they were designed by some long-time CCIEs who actually knew what they were doing.
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