analytics

September 30, 2015

NETWORKING

Connected Analytics: Learn to Live on the Edge – and Love It!

4 min read

Not surprisingly, as a networking company Cisco frequently publishes predictions on the growth of Internet traffic. Bragging unintended, typically the forecasts are pretty accurate. In a 2012 report we predicted that by 2017 there would be 2.5 devices and related connections for every person on earth, while there would be 5 devices and related connections […]

September 29, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Creating and Capturing Value To Thrive in a Digital World

2 min read

By 2020, 75% of business will become digital in some way by deploying solutions that leverage the intersection of people, process, data, and things—the very definition of the Internet of Everything (IoE). For example, IoE will drive an improvement of earnings before taxes and interest (EBIT) of 15.6% in retail, 14.5% in financial services, and […]

September 29, 2015

DATA CENTER

Unleash Your Business Analysts Cisco Data Preparation

3 min read

As the leader of Cisco’s Data Virtualization and Analytics Business Units, it is my pleasure to announce Cisco Data Preparation, a new big data and analytics offering for business analysts and IT. What is Cisco Data Preparation? Driven by Business’s accelerating demand for analytics, Cisco Data Preparation (Data Prep) makes it easy for non-technical business […]

September 22, 2015

DATA CENTER

Enhancing the Splunk experience with Cisco UCS

2 min read

According to scientists, the age of smartphones has left humans with such a short attention span that even a goldfish can hold a thought for longer. On an average, human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in year 2000 to 8 seconds in today’s smart-world. What does this mean for Splunk Enterprise ?

September 21, 2015

NETWORKING

Intelligent InSites and CMX Make a Difference for Today’s Healthcare

2 min read

A CMX Partner Ecosystem Blog Ecosystem partners are an important adjunct to Cisco Connected Mobile Experience (CMX). They augment the analytic and customer engagement capabilities of the solution with innovative business outcomes. This blog is one in a series that will highlight several of our CMX Ecosystem Partners. Today—Intelligent InSites. Intelligent InSites provides products and […]

September 11, 2015

SECURITY

Cognitive Threat Analytics – Transparency in Advanced Threat Research

2 min read

Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics is a security analytics product that discovers breaches in Cisco customer's networks by means of advanced statistical analysis, machine learning and global correlation...

September 10, 2015

INNOVATION

Drones: Just Buzz or Real Business?

2 min read

“Why Cisco?” I was asked repeatedly after speaking on a panel about drones. “Why not Cisco?” was my passionate response. The occasion was the recent NASA UTM Convention at Silicon Valley’s historic Moffett Field to explore creative traffic management solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), popularly known as drones. At Cisco, we see a full […]

September 8, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Making the Right Connections Opens New Doors to Digital Business Success

5 min read

Making the Right Connections Opens New Doors to Digital Business Success The digital transformation of business isn’t just about the connection of things, though those connections are certainly important.  Industrial or IT automation can take many forms, whether it’s connections between people, the connections between people and things or, perhaps most importantly, the processes that […]

August 28, 2015

CLOUD

Fostering Innovation in the Startup Community

1 min read

At last year’s Mobile World Congress, I had the honor of co-announcing a new start up accelerator program along with my industry peers at Intel and Deutsche Telekom. Challenge Up! is a program created jointly by our three companies to help inventive startups from the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia (EMEAR) region go-to-market faster […]