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Renee Yao

No longer at Cisco

Renee Yao is a Product Marketing Specialist in the Cisco's Data Center Marketing team, focusing on the Microsoft solutions on UCS and the Cisco Data Center Portfolio. She also helped grow Cisco data center social media activities and is an active supporter of influencer marketing.

She holds a BS degree at Haas School of Business from University of California, Berkeley. When she has free time, she enjoys dancing, golfing, jogging, and spending time with friends.

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May 17, 2016

DATA CENTER

Big Data and Analytics for Dummies

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A: Knock Knock B: Who’s there? A: Dummy B: Dummy who? A: Dummy you without a big data and analytics project (jk). But you are in luck, I happen to have the book for you – Big Data and Analytics for Dummies. If you are so hung up on the words, “for dummies,” here is […]

May 13, 2016

DATA CENTER

Why Quantium Chose Cisco and MapR to Transform Its Analytics Approach

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Research has shown that businesses who leverage their data are statistically more likely to be successful in their respective industries. The opportunity granted by big data enables businesses to boost their competitive advantage, improve the business decision making process, and increase revenue. Using insights from big data, companies are: 5x as likely to make decisions […]

March 18, 2016

DATA CENTER

MapR Big Data Everywhere 2016

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According to IDC, The Big Data technology and services market will grow from $16.55 billion in 2014 to $41.52 billion in 2018. 
Big data will continue to transform businesses everywhere. Together, Cisco and MapR enable customers to take full advantage of structured and unstructured data throughout your business. Sort petabytes of information with record-breaking speeds […]

February 22, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Splunk Drive Operational Intelligence at Enterprise Scale

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Guest Blog from Friea Berg, Global Strategic Alliances, Splunk As a member of the Splunk Global Strategic Alliances organization, Friea Berg is responsible for Splunk’s overall Cisco partnership. She leads a cross-functional team driving core technology alignment, solution development, GTM initiatives, and sales strategies across Cisco Data Center, Security, ACI, Collaboration and IoE teams. Friea has more than 15 years […]

February 11, 2016

DATA CENTER

A Year Ahead: Big Data and Analytics on Cisco UCS

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I’m so looking forward to the year ahead in the world of big data and analytics, because the opportunities appear to have no limits. Big Data and Analytics has been growing for quite some time. IDC expects the Big Data Technology and Services market to grow at a 26.24% compound annual growth rate through 2018 […]

January 26, 2016

DATA CENTER

Big Data and Analytics Touchdowns

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What’s your winning combo for big data and analytics? This may come as a surprise to you – but given that the Superbowl is approaching – I am going to use a football analogy. As we get ready for the game in 2 weeks, we have a tale of two quarterbacks. One is an established […]

October 14, 2015

DATA CENTER

MapR Big Data Everywhere

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Recently I was just granted the title, “Road Warrior.” If you followed me on Twitter, you probably knew that I had been traveling lots lately. And I continue to live up to that title! Next up: MapR Big Data Everywhere in Austin (10/27), Dallas (10/28), and New York (11/4)! MapR Big Data Everywhere is a […]

October 1, 2015

DATA CENTER

Is your data giving you the costly cold shoulder?

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2nd Guest Blog by Ron Graham Ron Graham had served as a Data Center Architect and Systems Engineer for some of the largest IT companies in the U.S. including Cisco Systems, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle. He is currently working for Cisco Systems as a Big Data Analytics Engineer. What I mean is, is your data not […]

September 23, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Platfora Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Scale Analytics

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Analytics will continue to take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data within and outside the enterprise are analyzed.  — Gartner Big Data will continue to be important, but it’s critical to first understand how businesses can quickly gather relevant insights from […]