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“The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club.

“The Internet is not something that you just dump something on.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth — Mike Tyson

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.

Rick Vanover, CTO of Veeam, opened his segment at Tech Field Day Extra RSAC 2026 with a statement that was either refreshingly honest or a very good bit of self-aware marketing: “Our audience has a very highly calibrated BS meter.

If you work in IT for even a few minutes, you’ll almost assuredly run headlong into the wonderful world of security audits—ostensibly, services to help you better secure your organization and its assets from internal and external threats.

I think that security is still the hottest topic in the IT world right now, the faux AI craze notwithstanding.

In my current role in the IT industry, I think about disaster recovery (DR), continuous data protection (CDP), and overall ransomware recovery almost all the time.

Since its inception, this blog has run on WordPress.

I’m finally back after several years of writing in just about any place other than my lovely blog.

It has been said that software is eating the world.

Editor’s Note: This was written by my lovely wife, Jennifer Bryson, after a frustrating few days of reading the same hackneyed advice for convention goers.

“I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by my wonderful wife, Jennifer Bryson

“What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising?

I took my daughter and stepson to see one of my favorite authors a couple of days ago.

If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then nascent software company Uila has written a novel with their breakout software product for monitoring, and performing root cause analysis on, virtualized and physical network infrastructure, brid…

It probably stems from how long I have been using computers, and what my first computer interfaces looked like, but I have been enamored of command line interfaces since, well, forever.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

The 2016 Cisco Live convention has just wrapped up, and I felt I should write a post-convention article as my own cathartic way of sending it out with a bow on top.

Cisco just announced today that their VIRL product, formerly only available in a personal edition, and an enterprise edition, will be available in a cloud hosted version soon.

“Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

I’m sitting here watching an episode of Top Gear as I write this, and waxing contemplative on my recent invitation to both a Tech Field Day one-day event and Virtual Field Day 6 .

I just wanted to post a quick announcement around the band for Cisco Live this year.

“In my heart, I will always be the girl without the metal, and you will always be the boy with all his bits.

http://web.archive.org/web/20210419160534/http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/brocade-builds-a-team-of-visionaries.html

“I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

I’m currently working on multiple writing projects, as well as looking forward to beginning a new, different gig tomorrow, so my office is a bit messy.

I recently wrote an article for searchSDN at TechTarget on the subject of choice in the SDN markets.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both

The product formerly known as VIRL has been rebranded and is slated for release in the first half of 2014.

For those of you who understand what Tech Field Day is, and want to follow this week’s events, feel free to use this calendar to track the events.

Lately I have been struggling with career burnout.

Software programming is a challenging endeavor.

Public Service Announcement of the day: I’ve long believed that the Trunk Monkey security system should be available in a network monkey form.

I access various Unix and Unix-like systems all the time.

I’ve never considered myself—strictly speaking—a network engineer, or anything in particular like that.

Software Defined Networking Explained: typedef struct network { void * stuff

So, you want to be a writer?

A few people you might recognize, including yours truly, are featured here in a video for Cisco Live.

Editor’s Note: Any resemblance to persons living or dead, known or unknown, read about, heard about, talked about, dreamt about (just once, don’t ask) not intended.

“So, why do you want to work here?”

Author Janice Davies said, “difficult people are your key to self empowerment, you need to learn how to cope with them, not let them dominate and affect you.

In 1876, an internal memo at Western Union is reported to have read: “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.

I have decided to take a quick break from my more business-oriented writing of late to focus on something that people seem to have an interest in: how I have my computer set up and configured.

Reading Time: 5 minutes This product is meant for educational purposes only.

I recently wrote a multi-part blog series for Cisco and, as we know, while it may seem like the writing is all of the work, getting the word out is at least as hard.

“Very thin line between arrogance and confidence…Being humble is that line.

There’s an old business adage that says, “All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends.

Teren and I just returned from Cisco Live in Orlando.