It was a chilly and blustery night in late November, and wrapped in a warm blanket, I sleepily watched my favorite show streaming from Netflix and listened to the rain tap against the living room windows. Thanksgiving dinner was delicious as usual, and the house was quiet after our guests left for the night. The […]
About Phillip Gervasi
Change Control: Embrace the Red Tape
Change control isn’t so bad. With the underlying goal of risk mitigation, good change control can save a network engineer from the dreaded resume generating event we sweat over during cutovers. Change management frameworks such as ITIL layer an element of bureaucracy over network operations to provide a basis for a quantitative approach to IT […]
How Rightsizing A Network Saved Millions
A few years ago I was approached by a state organization to be a second set of eyes for a large purchase of Cisco routers and access points to connect all its branch offices to a new central hub. Most hardware line items were Cisco 2921s and 2951s and Aironet 1041s. I asked how many […]