Big Data

February 6, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco Big Data on Display at Strata+Hadoop World

2 min read

Big data has become big business as businesses mine vast stores of data for insights that can help identify trends, predict behavior, and empower decision makers. And the Internet of Everything (IoE) is creating new analytic use cases and possibilities that were inconceivable just a few years ago. Cisco’s rich portfolio of big data and […]

February 5, 2015

OPEN AT CISCO

Announcing OpenSOC .1

4 min read

OpenSOC, an open source security analytics framework, helps organizations make big data part of their technical security strategy by providing a platform for the application of anomaly detection and incident forensics to the data loss problem. By integrating numerous elements of the Hadoop ecosystem such as Storm, Kafka, and Elasticsearch, OpenSOC provides a scalable platform […]

February 5, 2015

PARTNER

On February 12 Partners Learn How Cisco Big Data Analytics Transforms Business

2 min read

In an Internet of Everything era, enterprises and public sector organizations have developed an insatiable appetite for data. Data is being gathered from an increasing number of sources, and—from an analytics perspective—the more data your customers have, the better the insights they can gain. We recognize that analytics represent a truly transformational business opportunity for […]

February 3, 2015

NETWORKING

Using a Robot to Get Marketing Insights for Your Venue?

1 min read

NRF 2015 is a wrap. The annual show where anyone who’s anyone in retail goes to learn about the latest ways to grow revenues and improve store operations. Here’s something you may have missed: Meet Collecto. Your one stop shop for all marketing

January 27, 2015

SECURITY

Reducing the Attack Surface: Takeaways from the 2015 Annual Security Report

3 min read

As the Cisco 2015 Annual Security Report shows, current security approaches aren’t sufficient. Attackers are shifting methods and becoming more sophisticated in their approaches, users are unwittingly complicit enablers, and defenders struggle to keep up with all of these things. It is time for defenders to take a different approach to security that not only […]

January 20, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Exploring Global Digital Transformations for 2015

3 min read

2014 ended with a flurry of technology conferences in Europe and the Middle East.  In November, the European Commission’s (EC) annual Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Conference addressed how to make the EC a 21 Century organization.  In December, the International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications Standardization Sector ( ITU-T) hosted a meeting in Doha, Qatar for […]

January 14, 2015

DATA CENTER

Fog Computing: The New Model for the IoE

2 min read

Last month, we proudly announced Connected Analytics for the Internet of Everything (IoE), easy-to-deploy software packages that bring analytics to data regardless of its location. It is a continued part of our commitment to delivering on our vision for fog computing, also called edge computing, a model that does not require the movement of data […]

January 12, 2015

DATA CENTER

Could Big Data and Cloud go together?

3 min read

In today’s era of increasing connectivity, data is getting generated in vast proportions.  Moreover, it is also important to be able to generate insights from it quickly and act accordingly.  Gone are the days when one would move data into a data warehouse and then extract insights from it to act at a later date.  […]

December 17, 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Big Data Analytics Remains a Big Opportunity for Wealth Managers – Part I

3 min read

Wealth Management firms are spending billions on IT to differentiate in the market place. Yet the question remains, can “Big Data” have a material impact on the business? Can it deliver business outcomes by reducing risk, increasing assets under management, driving profitability, client satisfaction, products per client, client and financial advisor retention, all while improving […]