Big Data
In the Driver’s Seat with Cisco Unified Data Center
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I’ve been in this industry for more than three decades, and so I’ve experienced every data center technology breakthrough and market transformation in that time. We drove a market disruption...
Data Virtualization: Live at Cisco Live! San Francisco
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It has been a great year for Data Virtualization at Cisco Live! Milan, Melbourne, and Toronto were fantastic opportunities to introduce Data Virtualization to Cisco customer and partner audiences. And...
As Technology Changes ‘Everything,’ Don’t Forget About People
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In a constantly changing world, getting the right talent focused on the most pressing challenges is essential — not just for companies, but for service providers, cities, and countries. Today, the key driver of that rapid change is technology, particularly the explosion in connectivity known as the Internet of Everything (IoE). Cisco predicts that IoE […]
Hortonworks Data Platform with Cisco UCS; and a note on incredible performance of Hive 13
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Undoubtedly Big Data is becoming an integral part of enterprise IT ecosystem across major industry verticals, and Apache Hadoop is emerging almost synonymous with it as the as the foundation of the next generation data management platform. Sometimes referred to as Data Lake this platform serves as the primary landing zone for data from across a wide […]
Mining Copper Ore — and Digital Insights — in the Internet of Everything Economy
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The Internet of Everything (IoE) is a juggernaut of change, transforming organizations in profound ways. It sows disruption, and it grants enormous opportunities. But this sweeping wave of change is not reserved for what we normally think of as “technology companies.” In the IoE economy, even seemingly “analog” endeavors must be bestowed with network connectivity, […]
How Data Virtualization Helps Data Scientists
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By now it is clear that big data analytics opens the door to unprecedented analytic opportunities for business innovation, customer retention and profit growth. However, a shortage of data scientists is creating a bottleneck as organizations move from early big data experiments into larger scale adoption. This constraint limits big data analytics and the positive […]
Driving Serious Digital Disruption, with a Spirit of Fun
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Not all workdays begin with a convoy of cyclists hailing from India, Saudi Arabia, Europe, and America. And fewer still wind up with creations made of LEGOs, spaghetti, string, and marshmallows. Yet every workday — no matter how challenging — should have the same spirit of diversity, adventure, and assumption-busting repartee that I experienced at […]
5 reasons Operations Technology Pros shouldn’t miss Cisco Live San Francisco (May 18-22)!
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If you’re an Operations Technology (OT) pro, then the buzz about the Internet of Everything (IoE) should have...
Data Virtualization: Achieve Better Business Outcomes, Faster
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Data, Data Everywhere! The challenge of making business decisions in a networked world isn’t a lack of data. It’s having data residing in multiple systems, global locations, locked away in spreadsheets, and in people’s heads. Almost every enterprise faces this data silos challenge to a greater or lesser degree. But how businesses address it makes […]