These last few months have been pretty crazy. If you want a TL:DR on the last two months, this image best sums it up. I figured it was about time to get back into it. I had wanted to do this for a while. Unfortunately, a few health bumps along the road prolonged this. I […]
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Since joining Forward Networks, I have attended my fair share of conferences. As I sat here checking conferences off the list I wanted to go to, I noticed one I never thought I would get to attend. Mainly because what I thought about it was the focus was deep security. Although I have never been
Blackhat 2024, through the eyes of a Network Architect Read More »
At around 5 AM EST, I was violently awakened by my smoke detectors. The first thing that went through my mind was, well, that server I have on is burning the house down. It was not dramatic but just the ever-so-charming “Get up on a ladder and replace my batteries” alarm. Now that I am
A global outage that was not caused by a network change? Read More »
After a scorching week in the desert, Cisco Live 2024 is in the books. However, this one was different from the other two I have attended. My personal life was flipped upside down when my wife was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in March. If you want to read about that day, I blogged about
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Coming off my last blog post on My First Anniversary at Forward Networks, I was on cloud nine! I have a fantastic job where I work with, hands down, the best humans on the planet. My family just returned from an incredible vacation three weeks ago where we swam with dolphins, and I went parasailing.
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Last Wednesday was my first anniversary at Forward Networks. It’s cliche to say, “Oh, it feels like I just started,” but that is what it feels like. It is also a big deal because it marks my major transition from a technology-based role, my focus for my whole career, to a gasp marketing role. I
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For those who do not know, I am one of the co-founders of the Florida Network Users Group, a.k.a (FL)NUG, which is part of the greater (US)NUA organization. We like to call ourselves the “Michael” group since all three of us are named Michael. We have had the pleasure of knowing each other for some
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Since joining Forward Networks, I have had the opportunity to present our platform in several different lights. When I presented at Security Field Day 10 in November, I always dreamed of being a delegate. I jumped that and went straight to the presenter, and this hit home for me, especially knowing what Tech Field Day
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I can only speak for myself, but I am most definitely a creature of habit. I am a self-proclaimed CLI junkie. A CLI junkie is a hard person to change in this world of cloud and infrastructure as code. Being this creature of habit, I am setting out on a journey to see – can
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Shortly after reaching my connecting airport from St. Augustine, I stared at Gate E7. Knowing this would be the longest flight of my life. Atlanta to Amsterdam: 8 hours in the air, “what’s Dutch for ‘I hate flying,” I wondered. Then, I crossed a whole ocean (uneventfully sleeping for most of it) and landed at
“Where Are the Trash Cans?”: 5 Takeaways from Cisco Live Europe Read More »