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Colin Lynch

Data Center Specialist

Cisco Champion

Colin designs and deploys large Datacenters for a Gold Partner in the UK, and is CCIE#7064 as well as holding certifications in VMware, EMC and NetApp. His Blog is http://ucsguru.com which covers all Datacenter topics but focuses on Cisco UCS. When Colin is not working his hobbies are Playing Rugby and Scuba Diving.

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September 5, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: Don’t be a networking Lizard

Who’s more intelligent a rocket scientist or a lizard? Well it’s a matter of perspective. I’ll grant you that a lizard is less likely to design a spaceship capable of inter stellar flight, but if you put that same rocket scientist in the desert, I know who my money would be on to survive the longest…

April 9, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

The “Next Gen” Network Engineer

A subject very close to my heart at the moment is what skills I will need to have in order to support the Next Generation of Software Defined and Application Centric networks. It is of no surprise that Networking like most other towers in IT has embraced abstraction as the way forward to provide lev…