Enjoying the keynote today. Cisco Defense Orchestrator is interesting. This allowing for centralized security policy. Already deployed with initial customers. Cloud designed from the start. Advanced Machine Learning to detect threats. This using the network as signal detection device. This creates the product called Cisco Stealthwatch. Protection against branch network threats. Cliqr in the data […]
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The bad thing about Business Class…
July 10th, 2016 
Christian Weidelman You get some much needed legroom. This is good. You tend to speak with folks that are not wearing yoga pants or adult onsies. The problem though is you bumping up right against first class and thier food smells delicious. Only two hours and nineteen minutes to go. Why did is have to be chicken?
Off to Cisco Live
July 10th, 2016 Christian Weidelman My first time attending a Cisco conference. Hoping to get more information on Cisco ACI, the new 9k switches, some Contiv action, and if time allows a bit on Cisco Spark. I will post more as the week progresses.
The Hateful Eight
August 13th, 2015 Christian Weidelman I have been watching the progression of this movie since it was announced. As a complete sucker for Quentin Tarantino movie’s I was hooked from the beginning and yes I enjoyed Jackie Brown. This looks to be another fun movie, I always like Western style movies, they don’t get made very often today and when […]
Suicide Squad
August 10th, 2015 Christian Weidelman So, I had caught the trailer earlier this summer and resurfaced it again this past weekend. In my attempts to make a case that DC will try to make a Marvel like run at the Big Screen. I am rather eager to see the final product at this point.
Redfish Standard Signoff
August 6th, 2015 Christian Weidelman After seeing this being mentioned last year at HP Discover and a full double down by HP this year at Discover it’s great to see that it’s coming to life. Redfish isn’t just an HP thing, HP is one of the players in aiding in its development. Other promoters and supporters are Broadcom, Dell, Emerson, […]
Deadpool
August 5th, 2015 Christian Weidelman So, we all know Ryan Reynolds had a hard time with Green Lantern, but just some of the fun he had with the character for the short stint as Deadpool in Wolverine’s Origin movie begged to see more of him as the character. From this red band trailer I’m pretty sure I’m OK with this […]
Batman v Superman
August 4th, 2015 Christian Weidelman I for one enjoyed Man of Steel and even though my initial thought was Ben Affleck as Batman, otherwise known in my mind as #NotMyBatman wasn’t as bad after I saw the trailer. My hopes are that DC will really pair well with the Marvel Universe movie and TV show scene. We shall see…
Or Was It?
August 3rd, 2015 Christian Weidelman Yeah, so April, May, June, and July have gone and past with nothing to post. It took longer than planned, but I can now come out of incommunicado. We’ve made some technical changes at work that had to complete before I started posting again regularly. Expect now new topics as I venture back into the […]
Back Online – This is not an April Fools Joke
April 1st, 2015 Christian Weidelman Well I’m back to writing again. It’s been a year today since I moved to a new roll at work. The last year has been an intense transition for myself and the team we have been building. With the anniversary I wanted to refocus my after hours efforts to something more productive than watching TV […]
Dreadnought
September 8th, 2014 Christian Weidelman So, I sit here watching this video and go, cool I get to fly one of these mean “Flight of the Intruder” like planes. Then the end happens and I say, “No, I get to fly that SoB”. Sold, hurry up and take my money already! More video and in game action…
Sunday Football is back and so am I
September 7th, 2014 Christian Weidelman It has been a long summer, it started early, but it is coming to an end. Football is back and so am I. Expect more regular postings now that I have acclimated to my new position at work and not traveling every other week.
Python for the locked down Linux box.
March 29th, 2014 Sully By Sully 3/29/14 So there you are. Your linux box is locked down in the middle of a firewall battlefield. Production is down because program alpha is broken. Support wants a log file sent in. The only ports you have open are specific to secure telnet and the broken service itself. A simple option, Python. […]
Sell Sell Sell
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman You ever have a feeling that your on the precipice of something, but can’t see 6 inches over the ledge? That’s how I feel about IBM storage after the sale of IBM’s server business to Lenovo. You look at some of the post sale news articles, employee postings on the IBM alliance web page and […]
vSphere 5.5 U1 Has Landed
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman vSphere 5.5 U1 has landed and brings vSAN and Hybrid Cloud integration support among many bug fixes. Find some of the details here. As always adopt the update after testing, measured consideration and a double of your favorite drink.
Cloud Killed the Systems Admin
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman I tell you I have missed some great posts by The Register this week. I could not agree more with the ideas conveyed by Jack Clark in his article on The Register. People hear the word “cloud” and they see money saved, staff not needed and skill sets not required to get their idea turned […]
Azure gets cozy with Oracle
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman While not news that Microsoft and Oracle have been building tighter ties for a while now it has now opened up an announcement for Azure built images of Oracle. For those of us that get to deal with Oracle on occasion this provides an opportunity to work with Oracle without a larger investment. The […]
More Info on the Target Breach Detailed
March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman This is the best read I have seen so far… Business Week Target Breach This reinforces the thought that every IT person should have a minor in security for the their day-to-day job.
Big Thanks to a Few Trainers
March 13th, 2014 Christian Weidelman I was lucky enough to get to learn from some great guys from VMware over the past three weeks. A big thanks goes out to the crew at VMware Education. Brian Watrous Joe Desmond Rodney McIntosh These guys provided a great deal of information about vCAC, vCloud Director and VMware Orchestrator. If you get a […]
Crazy Cat
March 12th, 2014 Christian Weidelman Ok, so I hardly ever listen to the radio these day, but my wife had it set on when I drove to work this morning and I heard the most entertaining sound byte in a while. Listen all the way through. Number one rule, don’t get stoned and then hit your cat.