Big Data
The Value Cisco Brings to Tableau
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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 is Data Virtualization? Our definition is: Agile data […]
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Something: Big Data with Cisco & Splunk at .conf & Strata
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Someone at a meeting recently told me how cool it was that big data was finally moving out of the early adopter phase. He’s lucky I wasn’t drinking a beverage at the time, or he might have ended up wearing it. I’m accused of being sort of a unicorn when it comes to the Big Data […]
ITD: Load Balancing, Traffic Steering & Clustering using Nexus 5k/6k/7k/9k
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Cisco Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is an innovative solution to bridge the performance gap between a multi-terabit switch and gigabit servers and appliances. It is a hardware based multi-terabit layer...
Cisco, SAP and the Big-Data Revolution
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Cisco, SAP and the Big-Data Revolution SAP just announced the release of SAP HANA Vora. SAP HANA Vora is an in-memory query engine that plugs into the Apache Spark execution framework to provide enriched interactive analytics on Hadoop. Cisco, provider of UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data, is working with SAP to achieve the […]
#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 33: does this rack server make my data look big?
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#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re talking about UCS and Big Data with Cisco Technical Solutions Architect Sean McKeown. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the episode’s download button) View this episode in iTunes Cisco SME Sean McKeown, Cisco Technical Solutions Architect […]
The Data and Analytics Event of the Year!
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Today, I’m excited to share with you some details on the 2015 Data and Analytics Conference, October 20-22 at the Hilton Chicago. The inaugural event will showcase some of the most innovative data and analytics thought leaders. My favorite part of the event is listening to the customer presenters. I’d like to share with you […]
Benchmarking Internet of Things (IoT)
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Traditional to Big Data to IoT: Transaction Processing Performance Council Establishes Internet of Things Working Group (TPC-IoT) Over the past quarter century, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has developed several industry standard benchmarks for database performance, pretty much in line with major technology trends. The two most influential benchmark standards have been TPC-C (standard for benchmarking […]
Getting to Know Tom Powledge, Vice President of Cisco Managed Security Services
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After several months leading the managed security services portfolio at Cisco, I sat down with the social media team to discuss my path to Cisco, the evolution of the security market, and the future of security. [Note: This is an abridged version of the full interview.] Q: After nearly 20 years at Symantec, why did […]
ITD: Learn how to deploy ITD in 10 minutes
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ITD (Intelligent Traffic Director) is being deployed by a large number of customers, and it is saving them massive CAPEX and OPEX, while providing unprecedented scale and high availability....
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