Cisco and Kilmainham Gaol visit

On Tuesday we´ve got up very early and had some problems because we had some time pressure and just one bathroom.

Cisco was just a half an hour walk away from our house and on our way we passed by also some other big IT company’s like Oracle and Citrix.

At Cisco Systems we were received by Berry Redmond one of the systems engineer how is responsible for the sales department and the product Cisco Spark.

During his presentation Berry explained the disruption of Cisco and other big companies and showed us the new technologies. He said that Cloud computing is one of the new technologies Cisco will offer to their costumers and Cisco is changing from a hardware vendor to a software company. Also he told us that IT-Security is a big topic for Cisco and all other IT companies around the globe. That’s the reason why the security sector is hiring so many new specialists.

After the presentation of Berry, his bosses boss, Adam Grennan overtook the meeting and gave us a introduction what’s next in the Cisco product portfolio. Both of them seemed very interested in our education as state certified technician.

For lunch the group got divided in two groups. One of them bought food in the supermarket nearby the house and the other group had lunch again in the Trinity College. They met again in front of the Kilmainham Gaol Prison. While the group which had lunch in the college walked all the way to the prison the other took the bus number 123. To take the bus you need to know a few things like the coins must be fitting and to stop the bus you need to give a hand signal.

The guided tour inside the prison was really interesting and there were a lot to see for us.

In the evening the group was spitted again. One visited the movie “Wind River” in the Savoy cinema and the other group went to the pub close to our house. Later on we met in a pub called “LIVING ROOM” which is at the o’connell street and a nice location especially for younger people. At the end of the day we had eight tired students and one tired teacher.

 

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