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The Dallas / Fort Worth Cisco Users Group is an independent users group which meets on the first Wednesday of each month for the open exchange of technical information regarding the networking
industry and Cisco products for the benefit of Cisco users.
Our meetings are free to attend - all we ask is that you sign up via our membership / meeting announcements mailing list.
We also have a pizza buffet starting at 6:00 pm (no charge) with the main meeting starting at 6:30 pm.
Donate to the DFWCUG
The DFWCUG is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. We depend on your generous donations to help fund the operations of
the DFWCUG which includes paying the operating costs of our Domain Name and Web Page. Please consider making a donation.
Our Next Meeting - Wednesday
May 1, 2019
Securing the Datacenter with
Micro-Segmentation
Data centers have become drastically more
complex in the last decade, and it’s only
getting worse. Technology advances daily,
and by the time IT engineers finish an
implementation, it’s already time to
upgrade. Developers are deploying and
upgrading applications faster than anyone
could have ever imagined. We no longer have
a data center filled with bare metal
servers, in a single data center, doing
single tasks. Instead, we have virtualized
workloads doing multiple things, spread
across various geographical locations;
sometimes being hosted across multiple
providers, such as AWS or Azure. This is in
addition to our on-prem workloads.
In all this, attackers are becoming more
and more advanced. Threats are constant, and
they aren’t going away. By compromising a
single host, hackers are able to move freely
throughout our data centers, without the
fear of containment or rapid response. We
cannot continue to deploy 1990’s concepts
and technologies and expect to not be
compromised at some point. We need to start
thinking outside of the box and deploy
solutions that will not only baseline and
learn our environments, but react quickly
when things are behaving abnormally.
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JP Cedeno, Technical Solutions
Architect - Cisco Systems, CCIE
#47408
JP started his career 19 years
ago as a desktop support
administrator. He quickly evolved
his skills and became a network
systems engineer, primarily dealing
with Microsoft and VMware
products. His projects included
building and migrating large scale
VMware clusters along with doing
Active Directory, Exchange, and
MSSQL upgrades and migrations.
JP was eventually promoted to a
managerial position overseeing the
enterprise infrastructure group. It
was his job, and the job of his
team, to maintain all systems within
the data center. At this point in
his career, JP had achieved his CCNA
and CCNP in routing and
switching. As a manager, he felt it
was his duty to better support his
team and achieve his CCIE.
After passing his CCIE lab exam
in 2015, he spent a little over 1
year redesigning iPexpert's CCIE R&S
bootcamp. He moved on to join Cisco
as a Technical Solutions Architect,
and also formed his own company to
provide the best Cisco training on
the market. XtremeIE currently
provides high quality video training
to hundreds of engineers looking to
advance their skill set and become a
true expert.
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JP Cedeno |
Sponsor for May 2, 2019
TBD
Our Last Meeting - Wednesday
April 3, 2019
Topic:
IoT and
Your Career
As Rod Serling said so long ago; There is
a new dimension, beyond that which is known
to man, it is a dimension as vast as space
and as timeless as infinity." Well it’s my
opinion that we stand on that middle ground
between what is known and unknown, between
light and shadow, between science and
superstition. We find ourselves as network
professionals, standing between the pit of
man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge,
this is the dimension of imagination, it is
a place we now call the Internet of Things.
(Credit goes to Rod Serling for the above
words I have borrowed and edited slightly)
IoT
Back a couple of years ago we reached a
threshold. There are now more devices or
things on the internet than
people. Thanks to science fiction writers
like Rod Serling, this might stoke the fires
of fear in some. Yet the fact is we remain
in that orange hued dawn of a new era, where
so far, the things are there to help us, to
make life better.
What does this mean for your career you
might ask?
You can wander the virtual landscape
between the Redwoods of information
technology, or you can garden there. You can
shape the future as surely as a Bonsai is
sculpted with care, love, passion, or you
can wander around them. While the rest of
the world is daydreaming, gazing up at the
clouds, you can deal with the roots of the
technology that holds them aloft. That
massive forest of technology that stretch so
high as to hold the attention of the masses
while the few are cultivating the roots of
the Internet of Things is fertile ground for
your career..
Your career is a commodity, a pellet of
fuel, and your journey to make an impact,
the passion of ideas that will culminate in
a role shaping the future.
How do you get ready?
How do you earn that role?
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Eman Conde, CCIE Agent to the
World
CCIE Agent Eman (Emmanuel Conde) has
been in IT since 1974 with hands on
in many IT solutions. In the time
since he began his IT career he
always gravitated towards
management. In the 1990 when manager
of TAC at BANI he was introduced to
the fledgling CCIE program. After
sending many folks to the 2-day lab
in San Jose these people became his
calling. In 2008 he was invited to
join a Cisco program called SRS
(Strategic Recruitment Solutions)
becoming the only Cisco authorized
CCIE recruiter promoted by the
worldwide channels of Cisco Systems.
His focus has remained on the
careers of Cisco certification
hunters and their careers. With this
focus he has been able to mentor and
support many hundreds of future and
present CCIE holders. Because he
supports so many clients looking for
Cisco certification holders his
insight in the market and
opportunities is unique. His CCIE
Flyer and many Social Media groups
have introduced him to many
thousands and his appearances at
Cisco Live and other Cisco events
cement these relationships with
personal conversations.
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Eman Conde |
Sponsor for our Last Meeting
DFWCUG thanks
MpowerMe for being our monthly
meeting
sponsor for April 2019
MpowerMe provides innovative IT
staffing solutions with a focus on network
infrastructure across many industry
verticals.
MpowerMe has a recruiting approach
different than most traditional staffing and
recruiting firms: Simply put, we understand
technology and we understand people. That
combination gives us the ability to deliver
top talent at the right time. We believe
that in order to truly understand if a
candidate and a company are a good match,
you need to understand what the position
entails. Just like as an engineer needs to
understand the business requirements in
order to architect a working solution, a
recruiter needs to understand the business
and technical requirements of a position and
speak the same language with the candidate
in order to make the match.
MpowerMe knows the Cisco community
and can provide contract IT professionals,
contract-to-permanent and permanent
placements across the US.
https://www.mpowerme.com
Kristi Wade
Technology Talent Magnet
kwade AT mpowerme.com
(817) 239-3005
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