I’m proud to share that my participation in the CiscoChampions Insider program has been renewed for 2025! Since 2016, I’ve had the privilege of being part of this global group of passionate IT professionals, dedicated to sharing knowledge, exploring innovations, and contributing to the broader tech community. Being a …

A customer noticed that some SFPs installed in a Cisco Nexus were particularly 🔥hot🔥 and asked for a command to be able to see the temperature of all the transceivers. Sounds like a good opportunity to write some code! One of the things I love most about my job is when customers call me with odd requests. These unique …

Cisco ISE is one of my favorite products. Although I cannot call myself an expert on it, I have worked on numerous designs where network security and segmentation are based on ISE with excellent results. More than a few times I have needed to document the inventory of nodes in a cluster, and the certificates in use at …

The Mythical Man-month, some wisdom from the past, still valid today. Technology changes but people stay the same.

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Ten years ago I passed the CCIE RS lab exam, now renamed CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure. I shared some considerations about my experience on LinkedIn, reposting here: Exactly ten years ago I was walking out of the Cisco office in Brussels after taking one of the most difficult technical exams of my career. It was the …

This year again I had the privilege and pleasure to attend one of the best events for networkers: Cisco Live Europe 2023 in Amsterdam. I've attended Cisco Live Europe almost every year from 2013, in 2018 also as Tech Field Day delegate. This year was a bit special, the first in-person edition since Covid-19. I was …

Happy to be a Cisco Champion (again)! If you don't know what Cisco Champions is take a look to the FAQ.

Results of the 2021 IT Blog Awards are out, my blog made it to the Top25! Congratulations to all the winners! My blog https://t.co/va1bjVkazE is one of the top 25 of the #ITBlogAwards 🥳🥳🥳 thanks for voting! I subscribed to all the participants blogs and podcast! Great to see more people producing and sharing great …

Great news! My blog has been selected as a finalist of the 2021 IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco ✌ The competition is fierce, many skilled professionals started a blog, a podcast, a YT channel. In the end, we're all winning the Infinite game1, it was never so easy to access this huge amount of knowledge with little …

Good news received while hiking the wonderful mountains of Dolomiti: I'm Cisco Champion (again)! If you don't know what Cisco Champions is take a look to the FAQ and start following Lauren and Brett on the twitters.

As many events, Cisco Live this year is virtual, sessions are delivered in streaming. Tranlsating the experience of a multiple days in-person event to an online event is not an easy job. In the past years I've spent the days of Cisco Live chatting with people, attending a few live sessions but mostly interacting with …

A bash script to query Cisco PSIRT OpenVuln API. UPDATE Jan 2025 The code was updated to use new Cisco API. Changes are alredy in the new release on GitHub Cisco provides an API to openVuln: The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) openVuln API is a RESTful API that allows technical staff and …

Today I passed the Cisco Certified DevNet Associate DEVASC 200-901 exam. Here's a quick note about my experience. DevNet certifications were announced this year at Cisco Live. I was busy on another track at the moment and added them to the backlog. Then some $bigProjects started, summertime priority went to outdoor …

This blog has been selected as a finalist in the Most Educational category of the 2020 IT Blog Awards, hosted by Cisco. Being part of a community is not a zero-sum game, we're all winners when knowledge spreads, high-quality content is created and new relationships are built among a group of motivated and talented …