CCIE Security 400-251 V5.0 Written and Lab Exam – All you need to know!
Cisco published yet another update to CCIE Security Written and lab exams dubbed as Exam 400-251 (v5.0) which took effect starting Jan 31, 2017. It is quiet interesting to see another update rolling out on the back of an older one (350-018 V4.1) which took effect from July 25th 2016! Yet another interesting thing to see is v5.0 also implies changes to Cisco Security Lab exam as well.
Buying Outside the Box: What will SDN and NFV mainstreaming mean for Your Networking Career?
First off, it will take some time for it to happen. How do we know, is there a precedent? Yes, it took over a decade for server virtualization to go mainstream despite all the obvious benefits and TCO savings. You may still ask, but why? I mean SDN has obvious value propositions (reduced complexity etc.) and business benefits (faster TTM etc.) and OpenFlow has been around since 2006, that's over a decade already (if you consider Ethane to be an incarnation of OF).
CCIE Exams Undergoing Major Changes: Are you Ready?
There is a major announcement from Cisco CCIE program team on upcoming sweeping changes to Cisco CCIE Certification program as a whole (the content, update cadence, alignment with mega technology shifts etc). Core reason for change for which I am totally excited about, as Cisco put it, is "to build a workforce capable of moving rapidly and flexibly with the transformation of IT in our digital era"!
