Cisco roadmap.

[stephen2615]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting through a Cisco roadmap for what will be happening next year. Everyone else was a bit perplexed with the technical jargon but I thorougly enjoyed it especially the upcoming DWDM and CDWM integration directly into the Director classes and IPSEC for iSCSI.

I also asked if anyone was really using anything to do with the SSM and it appeared to be less than overwhelming in its take up. Considering we are a HDS shop, the regular EMC name dropping caused some stoney faced looks with our management. Is anyone out there using the SSM's and if so, what are they being used for? I quite like the idea of serverless backups.

Regards

Stephen

[stephen2615]

Colin,

I have not heard of knowlegenet and I wonder could you expand on what they offer. Seeing as how both the CSNSS and CSNDS have been withdrawn, and the new ones are probably identical except for the word Solutions in the title, I expect nothing much has changed.

Cheers

Stephen

[colin.mcnamara]

Knowledgenet does online classes and courses. I took the courses recomended for CSNSS and DS ( I took the newer tests though).

So I think you are dead on, that not much has changed.

--Colin

[stephen2615]

Colin,

I feel like a real idiot here but where are those courses. Can you give me a URL? I get to some strange page that askes me to login but I cant register. I thought the net was easy to use... DOH!!

Stephen

[colin.mcnamara]

Knowledgenet is available through thomson/netg.

http://www.netg.com/AboutNETg/overview.asp

Most courses are also available to Cisco partners for free (along with customers who bug said partners enough) at

http://www.cisco.com/go/pec

I hope this helps

--Colin