Re: CCIE Storage?

For information on things not shared or known yet, we should ask Darby. He
seems to be in the know. Picking on ya Darby, cause I like you. lol ...

Have a good one team!

Andrew

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Cisco answer: it depends.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Tony Varriale <tvarriale_at_flamboyaninc.com>wrote:

> Should be interesting. As you can see, just from the certs, that Cisco is
> placing a lot of resources in the DC bucket. I hope Cisco is aggressive
> and
> develops an expert level test (or multiple). Maybe we'll see something by
> next year's Live? :)
>
> tv
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Ryan
> West
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 8:34 AM
> To: Marc La Porte
> Cc: Adam Elghafri; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: CCIE Storage?
>
> Marc,
>
> I'm speculating, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it very soon. With the
> release of the all the specialization tracks in Data Center and their
> direct
> connection to the Storage Networking track, it only makes sense that they
> drop
> Storage Networking and wrap it up with Data Center.
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/learning_career_certifications_and_lea
> r
> ning_paths_home.html
>
> Partner Central now has a Advanced Data Center Network Infrastructure and
> ADC
> Storage Networking specializations and the push in the advanced partner
> distinctions is a P level equivalency. Storage networking is listed in
> General Certifications with no distinctions except that of IE, I expect a
> push
> for those distinctions at both the P and IE level.
>
> I wish I had more juicy details than just that, DC stuff is a lot of fun
> for
> me right now and I'm riding that learning curve. With your Nexus post last
> week, seems like you're in the same boat.
>
> @Anthony: I doubt testing on NX-OS is coming anytime soon, they have a hard
> enough time virtualizing it during some training I was at and I highly
> doubt
> we'll see 5k's showing up in testing racks anytime soon. I can't imagine
> Cisco has even dug their way out of the R&D for the Nexus line yet, I seem
> to
> remember an announcement a few months back about 100 units shipped, they
> aren't exactly flying off the production line yet :)
>
> -ryan
>
> From: Marc La Porte [mailto:marc.a.laporte_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 8:56 AM
> To: Ryan West
> Cc: Adam Elghafri; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: CCIE Storage?
>
> Ryan,
>
> Are you saying there will be a CCIE DC coming out? That would be great!
> Juicy details, please!
>
> Marc
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 14:29, Ryan West
> <rwest_at_zyedge.com<mailto:rwest_at_zyedge.com>> wrote:
> Adam,
>
> Being in your shoes, I wouldn't really know where to start either. I think
> if
> I were going for storage, I would talk with Roman at IEMentor.
>
> I could be completely wrong about this part, but I think the CCIE Storage
> might be going away in favor of a CCIE Datacenter track. Or at least
> storage
> will be considered part of that track. There is a big push in DC right now
> and it seems this track is most closely aligned.
>
> -ryan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>
> [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com>] On Behalf Of
> Adam
> Elghafri
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:55 AM
> To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com<mailto:ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> Subject: OT: CCIE Storage?
>
> hi Group Study guys...
>
> long time no see :)
>
>
> ok.. am about to take a decision to go for CCIE storage networking... I
> didnt find that much of articles or blogs about storage....
>
> If you have piece of advice about the study/market/ please advise....
>
> PS i do have R&S
>
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> --
> Adam
> CCIE #22416
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