# archive
All blog posts written prior to 2024
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[ Networking ] 5 min read
It has been said that software is eating the world. In the world of networking, however, the food has been slow to digest. Network engineers can be a stodgy bunch, and change is not only slow to come but fast to be …
[ Industry events ] 4 min read
Editor’s Note: This was written by my lovely wife, Jennifer Bryson, after a frustrating few days of reading the same hackneyed advice for convention goers. I have been reading a lot of different tips people are posting …
[ Leadership and career ] 4 min read
“I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.” — John Maynard Smith Every industry has unique jargon, and most people fall, at one time or another, into using terminology specific to their …
[ Industry events ] 5 min read
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by my wonderful wife, Jennifer Bryson When people started noticing that the Cisco Live social pass that has been available for at least the past 8 years, probably longer, had been …
[ Leadership and career ] 5 min read
“What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.” — Vilhjalmur Stefansson The process …
[ Everything else ] 4 min read
I took my daughter and stepson to see one of my favorite authors a couple of days ago. Neil Gaiman also happens to be one of their favorite authors, having penned a favorite story, Coraline, they both share a love for. …
[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then nascent software company Uila has written a novel with their breakout software product for monitoring, and performing root cause analysis on, virtualized and …
[ Everything else ] 8 min read
It probably stems from how long I have been using computers, and what my first computer interfaces looked like, but I have been enamored of command line interfaces since, well, forever. There have been the occasional …
[ Networking ] 5 min read
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Clare Boothe Luce According to a recently published survey by Cisco Systems, Inc., IT organizations spend 67% of their budgets on operational expense, and consume 80% of their …
[ Industry events ] 5 min read
The 2016 Cisco Live convention has just wrapped up, and I felt I should write a post-convention article as my own cathartic way of sending it out with a bow on top. It’s taken me a few days to gather my thoughts this …