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A tale of the death of Hammerhead

Blogger Brad Reese offers the inside story on the death of router startup Hammerhead and why he thinks this is bad news for the network industry. With $110 million in funding down the drain, will VCs be shy about investing in routing startups that try to take on the big guys like Cisco? Reese thinks so.
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    I just finished reading the NWW article on Top 10 Technology Skills. It seems like weekly, I get request from folks wanting to know where should they start out in IT to build a career. I typically tell them to find a beer they like and stick to it (I highly recommend Newcastle), pick a Star Trek series (if it is Deep Space Nine go directly to a VOIP specialization) and start out with the foundational skills first. A good career in IT means be able to be many places at one time with a wide... 3

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    One of the best places to be in almost any company is a job in or around their sales departments. Sales are a company’s lifeblood so those that can directly influence those sales usually enjoy higher pay and more job perks. However, nothing is for free right? So the trade-off is you typically have less job security and work longer hours. If you don’t bring in the numbers to meet your sales quota you’ll be out of the job before long. One thing you definitely can’t do is “coast” in a sales... 4

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    As I've mentioned in a few recent blogs, we're building a data center right now with the networking based on the Cisco Nexus-series line. This last week saw us enter the second major phase of this project: Installation. If I categorize this new data center we are building into three phases it would be like this: Phase 1 - Design Phase 2 - Installation Phase 3 - Application Migration Phase 1 began back in August 2008 when we decided to use a chunk of a new product development...

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