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Change The CCIE Portal Login!
It’s been said that achieving the CCIE is one of the more painful processes in networking and certification. There’s a lot of time and effort that must be expended to obtain those singular digits that...
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Is It Time To Remove the VCP Class Requirement?
While I was at VMware Partner Exchange, I attended a keynote address. This in and of itself isn’t a big deal. However, one of the bullet points that came up in the keynote slide deck gave me a bit of...
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Blog Posts and CISSP CPE Credit
Among my more varied certifications, I’m a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). I got it a few years ago since it was one of the few non-vendor specific certifications...
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Devaluing Experts – A Response
I was recently reading a blog post from Chris Jones (@IPv6Freely) about the certification process from the perspective of Juniper and Cisco. He talks about his view of the value of a certification that...
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Accelerating E-Rate
Right after I left my job working for a VAR that focused on K-12 education and the federal E-Rate program a funny thing happened. The president gave a speech where he talked about the need for...
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CPE Credits for CCIE Recertification
Every year at Cisco Live the CCIE attendees who are also NetVets get a special reception with John Chambers where they can ask one question of him (time permitting). I’ve had hit-or-miss success with...
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I Can Fix Gartner
I’ve made light of my issues with Gartner before. From mild twitching when the name is mentioned to outright physical acts of dismissal. Aneel Lakhani did a great job on an episode of the Packet...
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Don’t Just Curate, Cultivate
Content curation is all the rage. The rank and file folks online tend to get overwhelmed by the amount of information spewing from the firehose. For the most part, they don’t want to know every...
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A Plan To Fix E-Rate
The federal E-Rate program is in the news again. This time, it is due to a mention in the president’s State of the Union speech. He asked a deceptively simple question: “Why can’t schools have the same...
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Fixing E-Rate – SIP
#172268011 / gettyimages.com I was talking to my friend Joshua Williams (@JSW_EdTech) about our favorite discussion topic: E-Rate. I’ve written about E-Rate’s slow death and how it needs to be...
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Is It Time To Remove the VCP Class Requirement?
While I was at VMware Partner Exchange, I attended a keynote address. This in and of itself isn’t a big deal. However, one of the bullet points that came up in the keynote slide deck gave me a bit of...
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Doing 2016 Write
It’s the first day of 2016 and it’s time for me to look at what I wanted to do and what I plan to accomplish in the coming 366 days. We’ve got a busy year ahead with a leap day, the Olympics, and a...
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Fixing My Twitter
It’s no surprise that Twitter’s developers are messing around with the platform. Again. This time, it’s the implementation of changes announced back in May. Twitter is finally cutting off access to...
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