cisco champion

October 6, 2014

DATA CENTER

Call for #CiscoChampion(s) Nominations 2015!

Perhaps you’ve seen the shirts. Maybe you’ve joined in or listened to an episode of Cisco Champion Radio. Or maybe you can not resist learning new things and having access to experts in your area of technical expertise.   No matter the reason, if you are curious about the Cisco Cham…

August 25, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Value of Cisco Certifications: Making Money Vs. Study

Imagine that you see a Tweet today inviting you to apply for a part-time networking job, something you can do in addition to your normal job. You appear to be qualified for the job, and the work looks interesting as well. However, it requires enough of your time so that you would have to set aside y…

May 13, 2014

DATA CENTER

Network Design for Automation

There has been a lot of recent online discussion about automation of the datacenter network, how we all may (or may not) need to learn programming, the value of a CCIE, and similar topics. This blog tries to look beyond all that. Assume network configuration has been automated. How does that affect…

Cisco Empowered Women’s Network (CiscoEWN) at Cisco Live US enters its second year!

This blog post was written by Priscila David in collaboration with Anuja Singh and Rima Alameddine Exactly one year ago, during the launch of the Cisco Empowered Women’s Network at Cisco Live Orlando, we asked the audience: “What would you do if you were not afraid?” On that day, we coul…

March 3, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Champion Radio on ACI and Nexus 9000

How ACI lets you manage a network cohesively instead of box-by-box ? What a network looks like in ACI mode vs. stand-alone mode ? How ACI works with network protocols like spanning-tree and TRILL ? Upgrading the Nexus 9000 Series to ACI When does ACI make sense for your business ? For this new epis…