May 2008 - Posts
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In Brad Reese's Cisco Subnet blog , Robert Williams of CertGuard commented on the article about my recertification: I'm sure many "professionals" in his position would have opted to take the easy road and just "study to pass"...
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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 and automate those processes. Great people, with...
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Got it? It's a checklist of checklists, all about IT processes. The official name is The IT Audit Checklist Series (http://thinkingproblemmanagement.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-audit-checklist-series.html) and it is a list of checklists useful to IT professionals...
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Today, I was talking to one of Netcordia's university customers in the state of Texas. They have over 40 merchants and store fronts on campus allowing students and others to pay by credit card. And they've started to get audited at least once...
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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 themselves, so we've added a description of the typical...
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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 have a big network, comprised of 25 backbone Catalyst 6500 routers at 10 locations...
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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 topology discovery in 30 pages, sprinkled with details on how things work....
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I've been doing a quarterly publication for a number of years called The Network Monitor . In it, I cover topics related to networking. We used it back in the days of Chesapeake Computer Consultants, which was one of Cisco's premier training partners...
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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 is what the CCIE test measures. I had not kept up with several...
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