The new year...

I just finished off reading the new Network World articles on the most powerful people and companies. Has anyone else noticed that the list really hasn't changed that much over time. I think a list of most innovative people / companies would change more frequently and be more interesting. Its nice to have a ranking of who is who but everything they are rating on is not grounded in facts and they do little to nothing to tell you how they picked the individuals.

Hope everyone has a great new year, 2007 is upon us, year of the boar too.

- Ed

Side thought - not tech related

Well, I realized the other day that my 20 year for graduating from Gunn High School will be next year (2007). My older daughter will graduate from HS in 2009, I am feeling a bit old.
The only cool thing about all that is assuming our class actually gets a 20 year event together then I will get to see and hear what everyone is up to now and to toast those no longer with us. A bit off topic so sorry to those who read for the technical stuff. ;-)
- Ed

Slacking and Upcoming Cisco events

I haven't posted as of late mainly because there hasn't been that much interesting coming out of the networking industry. Perhaps that is due to the holiday slowdown. I don't really like talking about consumer stuff as there are a ton of folks out there doing that.
Next week will be the Cisco Partner SE VT events around the bay area so that should be cool. All Unified Communications products will be the focus. I've been learning a ton about the Cisco product line and I have to admit they are doing some very cool stuff. I am also very impressed with what I have heard about the ACE. I will post some more notes about that once I have gotten some good hands on time with it (hopefully very soon).
- Ed

Motorola is smart to pick up Good Technology

So, the real question should be... what was Palm thinking?!? Why did they let Motorola step in and allow them to own the major enterprise connector for their Palm Treo 650's? And I find it odd that Motorola with the Q even bothered since it can use Active Sync and the direct push technology from Microsoft.
Well, we will see how it all plays out. Maybe Motorola will buy Palm next!
- Ed

Just got back from presenting at Windows Connections Conference

After a crazy travel schedule and spending less then 24 hours to and back from Las Vegas I am happy to report that the presentation I did with Doug Spindler at the Windows Connections Conference went really well. We presenting on all the new things in Windows Vista regarding networking. We showed off all the new improvements in the network stack, how IPv6 will be impacting you, regardless of if you want to run it or not, and why Vista is going to require IT Pros develop a whole new toolkit.
It was fun interacting with all the folks and going over netsh, the new advanced firewall and all the new stuff in QoS. I also got to go over the Cisco configurations that were required to enable 6to4, native IPv6 and the associated routing protocols.
I believe our slide decks will get posted up at the Windows Connections Conference website but they will also be available at the Pacific IT Professionals site.
- Ed