I had the honor and pleasure of being invited again to attend Tech Field Day, this time for an Extra event at Cisco Live Europe in Barcelona.

Cisco Live is a week full of product announcements, technical session, (social) networking with fellow network engineers, meetings with colleagues and customers, discussions with …

My new post about Floating Networks has been published, read it on Aruba Blogs.

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Three years in a row, this is great! I'm again a Cisco Champion!

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At the end of the year it's quite common to think about the results accomplished and missed on the last twelve months.

Some people say

career is a marathon, not a sprint

and I partially agree. The main difference is a marathon has a predefined path already known since the beginning, a career looks more like connecting …

Quite often cable management is something that starts well when a new IDF is deployed and then gets messier over time.

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I read a lot of discussions about complexity in networking and IT today that include a large amount of FUD. Topics range from "we'll all lose our jobs because abstraction" to "you can't fix complexity" to "welcome robot overlords" ;-)

White boxes and their impact on enterprise networking is a hot topic today, with many point of views.

The last update from Dave Temkin, VP of Network Architecture ad Netflix, put more gasoline on the flames:

**Update April 2018: the original tweet was deleted, the message was:

Super proud of my team - today they …

Today I passed exam 2V0-642 to update my VCP5-DCV and got VCP6-NV (NSX v6.2)

I'll share here what I used to prepare the exam.

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When a customer calls with a problem or request I often see a chance to investigate a technology, learn something new or apply random skills to find a creative solution.

This time is about an ASA, customer noticed too much traffic on the Internet facing interface. Syslog, Netflow, bandwidth monitoring and any other …

In episode 13 of the Network Collective podcast around minute 26 Jordan Martin asks:

Aren't we all just following a trend?

The discussion topic is how to mentor juniors in a learning path to grow their skills and be experts eventually.

The question can be translated as:

Are we creating fake (IT) news/trends or is it …