Big Data

September 19, 2015

DATA CENTER

The Value Cisco Brings to Tableau

2 min read

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 […]

September 15, 2015

DATA CENTER

Tales of a Fourth-Grade Something: Big Data with Cisco & Splunk at .conf & Strata

4 min read

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 […]

September 1, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco, SAP and the Big-Data Revolution

1 min read

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 […]

August 27, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 33: does this rack server make my data look big?

1 min read

#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 […]

August 26, 2015

DATA CENTER

The Data and Analytics Event of the Year!

3 min read

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 […]

August 3, 2015

DATA CENTER

Benchmarking Internet of Things (IoT)

2 min read

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 […]

August 3, 2015

SECURITY

Getting to Know Tom Powledge, Vice President of Cisco Managed Security Services

5 min read

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 […]