Who is affected by the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and how can you protect your IT environment against the attackers?Read the blog post (on nil.com). more
DDoS attacks are relatively inexpensive and easy to execute, so every organization is a potential target. How to respond against a DDoS and mitigate the threat?Read the blog post (on nil.com). more
Hackers can exploit the KRACK attack to intercept encrypted wireless traffic and thereby steal your sensitive information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, personal information, and profession... more
What’s not to love about the pay-as-you-go model of cloud computing? Your service price is distributed over a longer period of time, and your customers “repurchase” every month, rather than use a solu... more
A few days ago a friend of mine who had read my previous blog on CCIE (To CCIE or not to CCIE?) asked me to explain how it all looked like 21 years ago when I passed my lab exam. Well... more
A modern software-defined data center relies heavily on virtualization technology. And VMware is one of the pioneers when it comes to virtualization as it helped reshape the whole data center industry... more
Recently I heard someone who had taken one of the IT certification exams complaining about questions that test memorizing the facts. He was also not happy with the "twisted" language that he had found... more
A puzzled question? Grammatically wrong. What I mean is: "To pursue a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert [CCIE] certification or not?" Or let`s rephrase and generalize the question: "To become a cert... more
I have written about software-defined data centers quite a bit in the past weeks. This time I dive into Microsoft’s SDDC solution, which is very promising. Microsoft Windows Server 2016 tries its best... more
Building data centers used to be a challenging job. It still is, to an extent, but the software-defined mantra that has taken over the IT industry simplifies a lot of challenges. And simple is (still)... more
