Why CCDE?
“Why should I take the CCDE?” This is one of the two questions I’m invariably asked at Cisco Live, so —why, indeed? Let me count the reasons… Because it’s not a Cisco specific certification. There are...
View ArticleOutdated IT Certifications: Survey Snapshot
How many outdated IT certifications are you carrying around? See how you compare to the results from our latest Packet Pushers Human Infrastructure survey. The post Outdated IT Certifications: Survey...
View ArticleSurvey Snapshot: Professional Development Focus For IT
Where are you focusing your professional development efforts in IT? Here's how Human Infrastructure readers answered. The post Survey Snapshot: Professional Development Focus For IT appeared first on...
View Article‘Balance’ Is An Excuse Not To Go All Out
When you have a goal in mind, sometimes work/life balance has to take a back seat to all-consuming effort. The post ‘Balance’ Is An Excuse Not To Go All Out appeared first on Packet Pushers.
View ArticleNetwork Break 221: Cisco Calls Privacy A Human Right; VMware Revamps...
Today's Network Break podcast analyzes Cisco's call for privacy legislation and CEO Chuck Robbins' assertion that privacy is a human right. We also dive into VMware's revamped recertification policy, a...
View ArticleNetwork Break 239: Cisco Replaces The CCIE Route And Switch; Intel Goes Barefoot
On today's Network Break we cover Cisco's new certifications and its CCIE Routing and Switching replacement, analyze Intel's acquisition of Barefoot Networks, dive into new products from Arista, and...
View ArticleNetwork Break 240: HPE ‘Cloudless’ Trolls Competitors; Riverbed Plugs SD-WAN...
HPE trolls the tech industry with a "cloudless" marketing campaign, Riverbed partners with Versa to bolster its SD-WAN portfolio, a startup dabbles in peer-to-peer networking and cryptocurrency, GE...
View ArticleNetwork Neighborhood – Lab Every Day With Du’An Lightfoot
Du'An Lightfoot stops by the Network Neighborhood podcast to talk about #LabEveryDay, continuous learning, how his military experiences influenced his tech journey, how he's tackling automation, the...
View ArticleHeavy Networking 464: Provocative Statements With Tom Hollingsworth
Today's Heavy Networking is a conversation with Tom Hollingsworth that ranges over a variety of provocative statements about the networking and technology industries, including "certifications are...
View ArticleSome hard lessons of life: CCIE after 10 years
A little bit context For a lot of reasons, this piece almost didn’t get written; I’ve been kicking the idea around for quite some time but eventually decided to let it go live. Time indeed flies....
View ArticleFull Stack Journey 036: Starting Your IT Career With Kori Younger
Today's Full Stack Journey goes back to the beginning with an IT pro just getting started in her career. Kori Younger is a recent college graduate planning on a career in IT. She and Scott talk about...
View ArticleCisco’s New Certification Path – Packet Pushers Holiday Edition 2019 – Video
This excerpt from the Packet Pushers’ 2019 Holiday Livestream event addresses a viewer’s question about Cisco’s certification path, the value of certifications in IT, and other options that network...
View ArticleNetwork Break 276: Cisco Extends Certification Renewals; EU Asks Streaming...
On today's Network Break we check in on the health of the global Internet as more and workers go remote, Cisco extends the lifetime of professional certs, the EU asks streaming services to throttle...
View ArticleCan Certs Boost Your Automation Skills? (Video)
Network Operations Engineer Curt Norris discusses with host Ethan Banks how Juniper certs helped him get better at automation and whether he’s going to bother getting any more certs. It’s complicated....
View ArticleHeavy Networking 623: Growing From Junior To Senior Engineer
Today's Heavy Networking is a roundtable conversation about career growth. Maybe your title is junior engineer, but you want to be a senior engineer. Be careful what you wish for! Maybe your title is...
View ArticleKubernetes Unpacked 007: Kubernetes From Beginner To Advanced
Learning Kubernetes isn't easy. In fact, there are so many places to start that people literally don’t know where to begin. Do they learn Kubernetes security? Networking? Infrastructure? Development?...
View ArticleDay Two Cloud 189: The Cloud Network Engineer Career Path With Kam Agahian
Today on Day Two Cloud we explore what it takes to transition from traditional networking to a career as a cloud network engineer. Guest Kam Agahian shares insights from his own career journey about...
View ArticleFull Stack Journey 077: A Career Journey From Finance To InfoSec
On today's Full Stack Journey podcast, Scott Lowe talks with Alexandria Leary who left a career as a financial advisor to break into cybersecurity. Alexandria and Scott discuss the reasons why she...
View ArticleKubernetes Unpacked 029: Kubernetes And Certifications For Product Managers
In this episode, Michael catches up with Anton Smith, Head Of Product at Spectro Cloud. This episode goes outside of the standard engineering conversation and into a conversation of why it makes sense...
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