Limitless Networking
After a number of months studying and final 2 weeks full 100% dedicated preparation I passed the CCIE Data Center Lab exam last week on April 25th in Brussels at first attempt!!!
This is my fourth CCIE title and I can honestly say that this is the title means a lot to me! Currently there are so few individuals who passed the CCIE Data Center lab and many have failed it already.
Happy new year to you all! I truly hope that all your dreams for 2013 may come true and maybe even more.
For the first time I didn’t really made a to-do list for 2013, but in my head I’m still working on things I want to have accomplished by the end of the year. I wanted to discuss in short a few of those topics.
Just at the end of December I bought a house in Utrecht, Netherlands. This is going to fill up a lot of time for me in 2013, where I literally need to buy everything and arrange a lot of things.
Of course the fun part of designing my home network, automating my house as much as possible and designing my little office if already in progress 🙂
The CCIE Data Center is also taking up a lot of time in 2013. Besides that I’m studying to pursue the title myself. I’m also writing the CCIE Data Center Lab Workbook for IPexpert. This is an amazing opportunity and I really love to work on it. I really hope you like using it when you purchase. Otherwise I’m more than happy to help you with your studies for the CCIE Data Center.
I have a couple amazing projects coming up! Involving all latest and greatest hardware from both Cisco and Juniper. Besides that I’m working a lot with the high-end customers we have in the Netherlands, which make me a very happy man! 🙂
A quick list of hardware that are involved in the projects
The projects involve some of the following technologies
And many many more things.
Actually this entire list should be finished in the first half of 2013 🙂 I have no idea how I’m going to do that in terms of time management, but we’ll see.
I’m loving my work and everything I do at this moment!
Stay Hungry…Stay Foolish!
That was it! My work life has an absolute peak every year and that’s when I’m again fortunate enough to visit Cisco Live in the US. This year it was held in San Diego, California.
I flew in on Saturday with 2 colleagues on LA and drove to San Diego after a quick tour around Sunset Boulevard 😉
We stayed at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, which is a hotel I can truly recommend when visiting San Diego. Services were good and staff was helpful!
My focus this year was to combine both Datacenter and Service Provider sessions as those are the fields I’m active in. I found that the SP related sessions had a quite smaller crowd attending them. I guess this is related as the SP customers are considered important customers and get a lot more attention from Cisco people, so they already know what to expect in terms of roadmap and technologies. Still I had quite some very good sessions where I learnt about the features (and limitations) about some cool new things 🙂
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