Thursday, March 27, 2014
Saturday, March 3, 2012
The Start-Up of You: Adapt...Invest in You..."
We built LinkedIn to be the platform on which you could manage your professional life in this way. We kept it simple at the beginning. We provided every professional with the opportunity to have an identity on the web, connect with colleagues, and find the right resources to get work done.
But being CEO of your career means more than this. In the years since starting the company, we have extended the LinkedIn platform: We’re helping you acquire relevant business intelligence on your industry, identify the skills you need to master, make the right connections, and ultimately become better at the job you already have.
As I observed people learning LinkedIn, I came to realize that building the technology platform was not enough. People needed to understand more deeply the ideas and strategies that are behind the new world of work, otherwise they couldn’t deploy the LinkedIn platform the right way. They needed to understand why and how to grow their “soft assets,” adapt, and play for great opportunities.
This is one reason why I co-authored a new book called The Start-Up of You: Adapt to theFuture, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, along with co-author and entrepreneur Ben Casnocha.
In the book, Ben and I focus on entrepreneurial techniques that can accelerate your career, like establishing competitive differentiation, ABZ planning frameworks, and taking intelligent risk. We look at what start-up entrepreneurs do when growing companies and apply them to a career setting — the start-up of you.
Great job by Reid and Ben. The caliber of vision these guys have is a rare commodity.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Cisco Connect Software
Cisco Connect Software
Cisco Connect software offers powerful tools for managing your wireless network such as
security settings, Guest Access, Parental Controls and Advanced Settings. Cisco
Connect is included with every Valet Hotspot.
Cisco Connect is
only for the new Linksys and Valet Routers. For older routers, you can
download Network Magic to get some of Cisco Connect's features.
A typical Cisco
Network Magic Configuration could be a D-Link Router connected to Cloud or
ISP using a Mac or PC
( Network Magic would have to be on a Windows Partition, using Boot camp or similar to access Windows. Preferably Windows 7 Pro 32-bit or 64 bit. The Mac partition should be running OS X, (Most likely Snow Leopard)
Connected to a laptop running Windows XP Pro (SP3, though SP2 should be ok), with a wireless card and of course virus protection.
( Network Magic would have to be on a Windows Partition, using Boot camp or similar to access Windows. Preferably Windows 7 Pro 32-bit or 64 bit. The Mac partition should be running OS X, (Most likely Snow Leopard)
Connected to a laptop running Windows XP Pro (SP3, though SP2 should be ok), with a wireless card and of course virus protection.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Cisco Cert Zone: Choosing the New CCTRS Instead of CCENT? Really?
Cisco Cert Zone: Choosing the New CCTRS Instead of CCENT? Really?
Here is just an excerpt of the text from this wonderful blog that I am sorry to see going away. Wendell Odom has been a fixture in the Cisco Blog landscape for years now. A trusted source of valuable information. Please stop by or even leave any insights you may have on the subject in a comment.
Thanks for my readers too. You guys are MY heroes!
Cisco announced their three CCT certs last week, all geared towards technicians. CCT has a clear and obvious good core purpose: to certify techs that Cisco dispatches to customer sites. The question that's not so obvious, and frankly will require some time to pass before any of us can see the real answer, is how useful, appealing, and popular CCT will become as a general Cisco career cert. In particular, CCTRS may be a pretty easy cert to add once you already have your CCENT or CCNA, but the difficult question is whether CCTRS makes sense as an alternative to CCENT. In today's post, I'll start to tackle that very question.
Really Brief CCENT Overview for Those New to Cisco
(Some of you may be reading this because of your interest in CCT, and you don't know much about other established Cisco certs. This first short section is for you; the rest of you can move on to the next heading.)
On paper, CCENT is Cisco's entry-level cert to all Cisco "career" (aka core) certifications. In reality, however, CCENT CCNA is the true entry-level Cisco cert; most people that plan on a career in networking expect to go past CCENT and get CCNA.
CCENT requires that you pass a single exam (640-822) that covers topics included in a 1-week course. To get CCNA, you can pass two exams: that same 640-822, plus the ICND2 exam (640-816), to give you both CCENT and CCNA. So you can think of CCENT as the "first half" of CCNA. (You can also get a CCNA by passing one exam, 640-802, which covers the topics in both the ICND1 and ICND2 exams; ironically, in that case, Cisco awards you only a CCNA cert, but no CCENT.)
CCENT and CCNA both focus on routing and switching, so much so that they might be better named "CCENT Route/Switch" and "CCNA Route/Switch". Over time, Cisco has added other certs with CCNA in the name: CCNA Voice, CCNA Security, and CCNA Wireless so far. For our purposes, when I mention "CCNA", it's the CCNA that focuses on route/switch.
If you really want to know more, well, you can search Network World's site for the name of this blog, plus CCENT and/or CCNA, and learn a lot. Or look at cisco.com/go/ccent, and cisco.com/go/ccna.
Comparison: Prep Time in Class: 27 vs. 5.5 Hours
To study for CCENT, you can take an instructor-led ICND1 authorized course, or the e-learning equivalent, or do self study with books, learn through on-the-job experience, etc. For the newly announced CCTRS, your only options today are Cisco's $299 RSTECH e-learning course, or OJT.
Making a comparison that is fair based on in-class prep time is difficult, but for the sake of argument, let's say that a CCENT e-learning class that includes labs requires basically the same in-class time as an instructor-led version of the same class. That is, the same lecture with a live instructor takes the same time as watching a recording of that same instructor teaching the same content, and doing labs on the same topics live in class takes the same time as doing them at home in the e-learning course.
If you take ICND1 as a live classroom course to itself, not as part of a bootcamp, you'll be in class around 27 hours. That's a full week course, minus getting done before 5PM on Friday, minus lunch and coffee breaks. So you can think of it as a 40-hour workweek, as the 27 or so hours in the classroom with this math, either way.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Yahoo Mobile IMAP settings
This is a little off subject but I am confident it is useful info.
To set up IMAP on your mobile device please use these settings:
- Incoming Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com
- Outgoing Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
- Incoming Port - 993 (requires SSL)
- Outgoing Port - 465 (requires SSL/TLS)
- Username: full email address (for example, bill@yahoo.com or bill@rocketmail.com)
- Password: the password you login to Yahoo! with.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
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previewing premium content. Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group
Cisco CIO Jacoby to oversee new cloud and systems management group
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Even though it completed the bulk of a major restructuring earlier this year, Cisco continues to tweak its internal
organizational structure.
Cisco has combined its Network Management Technology Group (NMTG) with two
other business units and folded all into a new organization to be headed by CIO
Rebecca Jacoby, according to a Cisco memo obtained
by Network World.The memo, authored by Cisco CTO and Senior Vice President of Engineering Padmasree Warrior and Pankaj Patel, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Service Provider Group, states that Cisco has formed the Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group under Jacoby to align engineering and services in an effort to gain market share in cloud, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS).
BY THE NUMBERS: Cisco posts small revenue gain
Cisco confirmed the reorganization and memo. CSMTG will include NMTG, which is now under the direction of Vice President and General Manager Jamie Lerner, as well as Cisco's Intelligent Automation Services business unit and Service Delivery Platform operations. Jesper Andersen, senior vice president of NMTG who landed at Cisco three years ago from Oracle, is now senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group, reporting to Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of Cisco's Emerging Business group.
The rationale for naming Jacoby to head the new group, meanwhile, stems from her cross-organizational experience as Cisco's CIO, a role she will retain.
"This role more than any other will bring alive our ability to deliver integrated products, services and software," the Cisco memo states. "We needed some very specific skills for this role -- strong leadership; the ability to influence and manage across boundaries; an understanding of infrastructure, operations and application deployments across Enterprise and Service Provider customers; and product, software and services knowledge. Rebecca is uniquely positioned to take on this role due to the synergies she has built between IT and Engineering over years of Cisco-on-Cisco deployments."
As CIO, Jacoby will continue to report to Randy Pond, executive vice president of operations, processes and systems; but she will also report to Warrior and Patel in her new role as head of CSMTG.
By aligning services and engineering under CSMTG, Cisco is hoping to accomplish several additional goals, according to the memo. They include:
• Build advanced management and automation capabilities in Cisco software by utilizing operational practice knowledge found in the company's Advanced Services delivery teams.
• Create IaaS, PaaS, SaaS solutions based upon Cisco's hardware, software and services components.
• Leverage the Advanced Services teams to sell management and automation solutions in cloud and legacy environments across all market segments.
• Leverage Cisco's services and engineering partnerships with its portfolio of technology (i.e. VMware, EMC/VCE, NetApp, Oracle and SAP) and go-to-market partners
My 2 Cents:
I was appalled
at all the crappy, spamy comments that were posing as legitimate comments on
this genuine news article about Cisco and the Cloud. I only hope to become the
type of writer that people come to know and trust. This is a Red Letter Day for
Cisco Systems. IT will be remembered as a milestone, a turn in the right
direction. Cisco is now doing everything right and I know the bottom line will
soon reflect this. Sorry about the rant. I am fairly confident that if you've
been on the Internet any length of time, you are most likely tired of the
predators that feed on honest people like you and I who simply love what they
are doing and want to do it well. My hat is off to all of you who earn an
honest living with good old fashioned hard work which should be rewarded.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Securing the Mobile Experience Made Simpler
It is no longer a question of “if” your organization will face the new reality of mobile device proliferation, just an ever closer “how soon.” Users expect the network to enable trends like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), and they aren’t just using smartphones and tablets to be more productive, they are falling in love with them. For businesses, simply allowing access isn’t the answer. It’s a question of relevant, secure access across the entire network, while protecting corporate assets and delivering an optimal user experience. Cisco focuses on exactly that – how to enable a simple and secure mobility experience, with a consistent end-to-end architecture across wired, wireless and VPN access.
As a cornerstone of this wired-wireless access architecture, the Cisco Identity Services Engine(ISE) has already been helping customers like Whittier Union High School, San Antonio Water System and BlueWater Communications Group apply consistent security across the entire network through a centralized, single policy source.
Whittier Union High School District, a California high school district serving more than 13,600 students, was facing the challenge of mobile devices. Both faculty and students were bringing their personal devices on campus, many for educational apps and tools.
“It’s becoming increasingly critical to provide employees, students, and visitors access to our network and extensive educational resources given the growing expectations of our tech-savvy population,” stated Karen Yeh, Director of Information Technology, Whittier Union High School District.
Whittier needed a way to apply differentiated policy across their student and staff populations, somehow managing access for both personal and corporate devices, all without increasing IT resources. Karen called Cisco, and two weeks later her team was deploying the Cisco ISE, implementing a single point of security policy for their networks across wired, wireless and VPN. Considering that Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the US went to Whittier High School, the flexible network access enabled by Cisco ISE may be empowering the next generation of leaders, scientist or artists. But, mobile devices aren’t confined to education. San Antonio Water System, a public utility owned by the city of San Antonio, is seeing surprisingly similar issues.
Tags: 802.11n, 802.1x, byod, Identity Services Engine, ISE, mobile devices, mobility, network management, policy, security, Smartphones, Tablets, vpn, wi-fi, wifi, wireless, wireless LAN,wlan
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