About Tony Bourke

Tony Bourke is an IT instructor teaching Cisco and other courses for various organizations. He writes about the hilarity of the converged roles at datacenteroverlords.com and random musing on twitter @tbourke. He's also an amateur pilot, scuba diver, marathon runner, and crazy cat lady.

Reactive Jobs vs. Proactive Jobs & The Time Management Struggle

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Time is the fire in which we burn. -Dr. Soran In the world of IT (and in most other professional/knowledge work … [Read more...]

Wrath of Data Center: Show 2 – The Electric Boogaloo

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Show 2: The Electric Boogaloo features discussions about the latest rumors about the CCIE Data Center hunted down by Tom … [Read more...]

Wrath of Data Center: Show 1 – The Phantom Test

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This inaugural episode of Wrath of Data Center, the new podcast dedicated to the pursuit of the CCIE Data Center … [Read more...]

POLL: CCIE Data Center – Who’s In?

I have one primary question for the Packet Pusher's community regarding the newly announced CCIE Data Center track: Who's … [Read more...]

The Heart of a Teacher vs. The Heart of a Know-It-All

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In technology, the currency of our realm is knowledge, so it's no surprise that we have a tendency to want to show off that … [Read more...]

Is the Pearson VUE Testing Center Network Collapsing?

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Since my day job is teaching, I need to do a lot of certification tests. There are periods of time when I seem to live in a … [Read more...]

Dare to Be Stupid

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I was fortunate to be a guest again on the Packet Pusher’s Podcast recently, and one of the topics was an audience … [Read more...]