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Demo: Cloud Networking with Overlapping CIDR, L7 Firewalls, Segmentation, and Flow visibility
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Notes on Aviatrix
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It's time for Enterprise Cloud Networking
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Going Over the Edge with your VMware NSX and Cisco Nexus
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A tale of two perspectives: IT Operations with NSX
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On choosing VMware NSX or Cisco ACI
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Demo: End to end, hop by hop, physical and virtual network flow visibility with NSX
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An introduction to Zero Trust virtualization-centric security
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Three reasons why Networking is a pain in the IaaS, and how to fix it
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Networking is a Service, and you are the Service Provider
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New design guide: VMware NSX with Cisco UCS and Nexus 7000
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Distributed virtual and physical routing in VMware NSX for vSphere
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VMware NSX, Convergence, and Reforming Operational Visibility for the SDDC
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Real world SDN: VMware NSX on Packet Pushers
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Seven reasons VMware NSX, Cisco UCS and Nexus are orders of magnitude more awesome together
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Video interview: Network Virtualization and VMware NSX
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Virtualization Security Podcast: VMware NSX
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What is a Distributed Firewall?
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What is Network Virtualization?
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Reporting from the front lines of network transformation
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On "VMware's SDN Dilemma: VXLAN or Nicira?"
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Network Virtualization: a next generation modular platform for the data center virtual network
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The start of an epic adventure with VMware, advancing the software defined virtual network
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A better fabric with VMware NSXi for your network switch
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Data center network fabric auto deployed in 30 minutes with Dell Fabric Manager
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Video: Basic introduction to Network Virtualization, Nicira, and VMware
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Video: Basic introduction to the Leaf/Spine data center networking fabric design
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Mind blowing L2-L4 Network Virtualization by Midokura MidoNet
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Dell Networking Summit 2012 & Dell Fabric Manager
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The "appliance" approach to Big Data and Private Cloud
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Architecting Data Center Networks in the era of Big Data and Cloud
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Comparing fabric efficiencies of Fixed vs Chassis based designs, non-blocking
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Comparing efficiencies of Fixed vs Chassis switches
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A network that Doesn't Suck for cloud and Big Data: Interop 2012 session teaser
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Considering 10GE Hadoop clusters and the network
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Dodging open protocols with open software
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Construct a Leaf Spine design with 40G or 10G? An observation in scaling the fabric
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On optimizing traffic for network virtualization
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First take on Embrane heleos
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Hadoop network design challenge
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Network Virtualization is like a big virtual chassis
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Starting a new journey with Dell Force10
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Understanding Hadoop Clusters and the Network
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Distributed systems trickle down into Enterprise IT
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On "Why TRILL wont work for the data center"
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"Jawbreaker", merchant silicon, QFabric, and flat networks
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Incomplete thought: Just in time QoS
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TCP Incast and Cloud application performance
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On data center scale, OpenFlow, and SDN
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Inverse Virtualization for Internet Scale Applications
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Cisco UCS Networking videos (in HD), Updated & Improved!
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A new role at Cisco, and exciting opportunity
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Emergence of the Massively Scalable Data Center
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Cisco UCS criticism and FUD: Answered
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Routing over Nexus 7000 vPC peer-link? Yes and No.
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Great questions on FCoE, VN-Tag, FEX, and vPC
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Cisco UCS Fabric Extender (FEX) QoS
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Cisco Nexus 7000 connectivity solutions for Cisco UCS
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The end to end (FCoE) justifies the means to means
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Cisco UCS Q&A #3 - flexible configuration
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Cisco UCS Q&A #2 - End Host Mode forwarding behavior
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Cisco UCS Q&A #1 - traffic steering
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Cisco UCS Fabric Failover: Slam Dunk? or So What?
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VMware 10GE QoS Design Deep Dive with Cisco UCS, Nexus
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Nexus 1000V 17 load balancing algorithms, dedicated to Nicholas Weaver at EMC
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Cisco UCS intelligent QoS vs. HP Virtual Connect rate limiting
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Cisco UCS Networking Best Practices (in HD)
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Data Center Networking Q&A #1 - starring HP, Nexus 1000V, QoS
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Setting the stage for TRILL, rethinking data center switching
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The FOLLY in the HP vs Cisco UCS Tolly Group report on bandwidth
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The vSwitch ILLUSION and DMZ virtualization
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HP Flex-10 versus Nexus 5000 & Nexus 1000V with 10GE passthrough
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Nexus 5000 & Nexus 2000: New technology requires new thinking
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Simple use cases for Network Interface Virtualization
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A simple example of Network Interface Virtualization
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Cisco UCS and Nexus 1000V design diagram with Palo adapter
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Cisco UCS and VMWare vSwitch design with Cisco 10GE Virtual Adapter
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Cisco UCS pricing response to Egenera
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This post came from Cisco UCS
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Top of Rack vs End of Row Data Center Designs
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Nexus 1000V with FCoE CNA and VMWare ESX 4.0 deployment diagram
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How to Calculate TCP throughput for long distance WAN links
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Brocade buys Foundry, validating Cisco Data Center Strategy
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Re Certified
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Notes on CCDE
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Notes on BGP
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Notes on Spanning Tree
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Notes on Multicast
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Notes on EIGRP
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Notes on OSPF
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Notes on IS-IS
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Notes on TCP
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Cisco Nexus 5000 announced Today
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A few words about Nexus 7000
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CCIE R&S Written Test Study Notes - Part 1
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Two routing protocols, Same administrative distance?
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Outage Story with VTP
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Switchport Configurations Explained
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VLAN Trunking using IEEE 802.1Q
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VLAN Trunking using ISL
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Things to know about VTP
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Identifying Ethernet Multicast
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Identifying Ethernet Header Types
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DSCP Assured Forwarding PHB
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Route Summarization with Alternate Paths
 
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