analytics

December 11, 2013

SECURITY

Big Data in Security – Part III: Graph Analytics

6 min read

Following part two of our Big Data in Security series on University of California, Berkeley’s AMPLab stack, I caught up with talented data scientists Michael Howe and Preetham Raghunanda to discuss their exciting graph analytics work. Where did graph databases originate and what problems are they trying to solve? Michael: Disparate data types have a lot of connections between […]

December 10, 2013

SECURITY

Big Data in Security – Part II: The AMPLab Stack

7 min read

Following part one of our Big Data in Security series on TRAC tools, I caught up with talented data scientist Mahdi Namazifar to discuss TRAC’s work with the Berkeley AMPLab Big Data stack. Researchers at University of California, Berkeley AMPLab built this open source Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS), starting at the bottom what is Mesos? AMPLab is looking at […]

December 9, 2013

SECURITY

Big Data in Security – Part I: TRAC Tools

9 min read

Recently I had an opportunity to sit down with the talented data scientists from Cisco’s Threat Research, Analysis, and Communications (TRAC) team to discuss Big Data security challenges, tools and methodologies. The following is part one of five in this series where Jisheng Wang, John Conley, and Preetham Raghunanda share how TRAC is tackling Big Data. Given the hype surrounding […]

December 5, 2013

NETWORKING

Deep-Dive Techwise Technical Workshop: Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences

1 min read

Next Thursday you don’t want to miss a live technical webcast with Q&A on the hot topic of Wi-Fi location-based services. Join Techwise tech legend Jimmy Ray...

December 4, 2013

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

A Healthier You with Big Data

3 min read

What if you had a “virtual doctor” who was available at any time—24×7—to give you a quick checkup, dispense friendly health advice, and even alert you to possible health problems before they become serious? What if your parents or grandparents got a gentle daily reminder to take their medication, so they would never have to […]

December 3, 2013

NETWORKING

Cisco CMX at Dreamhack Winter 2013 in Jonkoping Sweden

2 min read

Dreamhack Winter 2013 in the small city of Jonkoping in central Sweden claims to be the world’s largest digital event. I was skeptical at first, but when I arrived for...

November 21, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

A Software Aware Society Driven by Sensors, Analytics and APIs

1 min read

“Software is Eating the World” is a quote attributed to Marc Andreessen and somewhat further explored by his business partner Ben Horowitz.  Mark Andreessen gives compelling reasons to validate this quote.  To some extend I have to agree with some of his reasons (but I am also a little bit biased as a software engineer). On […]

November 21, 2013

PERSPECTIVES

A Software Aware Society Driven by Sensors, Analytics and APIs

4 min read

“Software is Eating the World” is a quote attributed to Marc Andreessen and somewhat further explored by his business partner Ben Horowitz.  Mark Andreessen gives compelling reasons to validate this quote.  To some extend I have to agree with some of his reasons (but I am also a little bit biased as a software engineer). On […]

November 19, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Virtualization: Can We Deconstruct the Problem and Opportunity?

2 min read

This was the title of a November 19 2013 panel that I had moderated in Washington D.C. at the MPLS-SDN Isocore Conference. The abstract for this conference was...