# archive
All blog posts written prior to 2024
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[ Networking ] 1 min read
Cisco just announced today that their VIRL product, formerly only available in a personal edition, and an enterprise edition, will be available in a cloud hosted version soon. This new version will remove a major barrier …
[ Tech field day ] 6 min read
“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.” ~ Edward Tuft In the ever-so-neatly packaged and marketed buzzword bingo world that we know as “cloud,” there are two generally accepted …
[ Tech field day ] 3 min read
I’m sitting here watching an episode of Top Gear as I write this, and waxing contemplative on my recent invitation to both a Tech Field Day one-day event and Virtual Field Day 6 . Both are being held in the same week, …
[ Industry events ] 2 min read
I just wanted to post a quick announcement around the band for Cisco Live this year. This is usually a hotly contested issue in the community, with Cisco often letting attendees vote, and most of us look forward to the …
[ Everything else ] 12 min read
“In my heart, I will always be the girl without the metal, and you will always be the boy with all his bits.” – Quote from an old friend of mine, on our respective surgical experiences It’s a very surreal thing to know …
[ Networking ] 1 min read
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[ Tech field day ] 2 min read
“I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.” Susan Orlean Network Field Day 7 has long since come and gone, and it occurs to me that …
[ Everything else ] 1 min read
I’m currently working on multiple writing projects, as well as looking forward to beginning a new, different gig tomorrow, so my office is a bit messy. With all the books and studies seeming to point toward messy, …
[ Networking ] 1 min read
I recently wrote an article for searchSDN at TechTarget on the subject of choice in the SDN markets. The gist of the article was that from a marketing perspective one of the most effective strategies in a cluttered …
[ Leadership and career ] 4 min read
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, …