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The ‘Way Too Late’ Cisco Live 2023 Recap

As usual, time has gotten away from me, but I attended Cisco Live in Las Vegas this summer and wanted to share my experience through a blog post. This year’s event was very much about the people for me, and I was excited to get to go so I that could meet new and reconnectContinue reading “The ‘Way Too Late’ Cisco Live 2023 Recap”

Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Cloud Migration Phases

Writing from experience, without knowing much about it, “moving to the cloud” can be a nebulous concept. It seems easy to just think that, “hey, we have applications hosted in our data center today, then tomorrow they will be in the cloud.” However, a cloud migration is much more than that. A fair amount ofContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Cloud Migration Phases”

Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Shared Responsibility

Although it goes without saying, especially these days; when it comes to information technology infrastructure and data, security is paramount. That goes for both on-premises infrastructure and data, as well as cloud-hosted. I want to dive more into the cloud side of this thought. People have been running workloads, applications, and services in private, on-premisesContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Shared Responsibility”

ENSLD Journey – The Intro

I have a 2022 goal of achieving the CCNP Enterprise certification. Late last year, I passed the ENCOR exam and now need to pass one of the concentration exams to achieve the full CCNP certification. Due to my interests, I have decided to go for the design specialization. To achieve this specialization, I need toContinue reading “ENSLD Journey – The Intro”

Challenges and Opportunities – Year Over Year

At the end of 2020, I made a conscious decision that 2021 was going to be different. Now, I should say that things had been going well. I had been happy with my career and home/family life. However, there was something missing. I had never really set solid goals for myself. I would always justContinue reading “Challenges and Opportunities – Year Over Year”

NFD26 – Performance Monitoring w/ NetBeez

The NFD26 series of posts are my commentary from specific presentations held for Networking Field Day 26, a virtual event presented by Tech Field Day. Let’s face it. None of us like getting that call. You know which one I’m talking about. The one that makes you cringe immediately when your brain processes it. TheContinue reading “NFD26 – Performance Monitoring w/ NetBeez”

NFD26 – Scaling Discussion w/ Arista

The NFD26 series of posts are my commentary from specific presentations held for Networking Field Day 26, a virtual event presented by Tech Field Day. Something that really peaked my interest during Arista Network‘s NFD26 presentation was the time they spent discussing scaling caveats and opportunities in modern data centers. There continues to be debates,Continue reading “NFD26 – Scaling Discussion w/ Arista”

NFD26 – Experience First Networking w/ Juniper

The NFD26 series of posts are my commentary from specific presentations held for Networking Field Day 26, a virtual event presented by Tech Field Day. Before getting started, I want to put some high-level definitions on some terms used throughout this post. MistAI: Juniper’s cloud hosted platform that aggregates analytical data from a customer’s JuniperContinue reading “NFD26 – Experience First Networking w/ Juniper”