Archive for the ‘Tech Field Day’ category

1. Patch! Patch! Patch!

   Bob Plankers, Technical Marketing Architect for vSphere at VMware, has a very simple but important message for all of us, and it isn’t really limited to VMware itself: “Patch! Patch! Patch! Did I say… patch?”. That was his starting message when I visited VMware during Security Field Day 2, and there was more Bob had […]

2. Cisco Live – Network Building Blocks for IoT

   Cisco Live happened in Barcelona end of January, and as usual I am a little late with my blog posts about it. Like the last two years I was invited to join the group of technology experts for Tech Field Day Extra, with various presentations covering a number of new and improved Cisco technologies as […]

3. A look at Cisco Tetration

   Once again I was invited to join the group of delegates for Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live 2018 in Barcelona, with various presentations covering a number of new and improved Cisco technologies. One of them I had seen already last year at the same event in Berlin, but hadn’t had the time to […]

4. A look at Paessler PRTG

   During Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live Europe 2017 one of the presentations we attended was from Paessler, about their PRTG monitoring tool. I had only seen it once before, during a penetration test I performed at a customer site – and since it was running with default credentials it gave a very nice […]

5. Programmable ASICs in Cisco Switches

   I know what a Cisco switch is. I know what an ASIC is – a processor designed for a special purpose that it can do it’s job faster than a generic purpose processor running the job in software. What I didn’t know is that it was also possible to build programmable ASICs.