Big Data

February 6, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Extrasensory Enterprise: Turning Data Complexity into Advantage

By Shaun Kirby, Director, Innovations Architecture Internet Business Solutions Group If anyone still doubts the overwhelming complexity of today’s data deluge, Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, offers some poignant perspective. In a recent book, “The Human Face of Big Data”, he observes that from the dawn of civilization until 2003 humankind generated five exabytes […]

February 5, 2013

DATA CENTER

Here now, preparing you for the future

1 min read

You may have heard of the Cisco® Global Cloud Index. From our predictions, the cloud’s future is both promising and daunting. With the forecast calculating cloud traffic to increase sixfold by 2016, you have to wonder if the Cloud is ready to take on the load. Cisco thinks so. We are pleased to introduce the […]

January 18, 2013

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Building Trust in the Expanding World of Big Data Retailing

3 min read

These days, the generation of data has become almost as constant as breathing. With every click or swipe, today’s mobile, hyperconnected consumers exhale an ever-expanding trail of digital details, revealing troves of information about their wants, needs, interests, well-being, and aspirations. All of that data offers great promise for retailers looking to know their customers […]

January 16, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

CES 2013: An Explosion of Innovative New Devices

2 min read

The annual Consumer Electronics Show, held last week in Las Vegas, has been called the “Super Bowl of Technology.” This year’s event was no exception. The largest in the 45-year history of CES, it featured 3,250 exhibitors, 150,000 attendees, and more than 20,000 new products unveiled. But while it may have been impossible to nail […]

December 20, 2012

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Big Data Could Spawn a Retail Revolution

2 min read

Success in retail hinges on a deep understanding of consumers. Anticipating their wants and needs — then offering the right product, in the right place, at the right time, and for the right price — has always been paramount. To truly understand today’s consumer, however, retailers need to address a new dimension that is challenging […]

December 19, 2012

DATA CENTER

From Hudson River to Data Center : When Teamwork, Process and Respect Save the Day .

1 min read

This is my first year as an attendee at the Gartner DC conference.  I’ve been here once before working demos on the tradeshow floor, but this year it’s purely about information gathering.  Tradeshows floors are great.  You get to wander around and chat with a captive audience of your industry peers, partners, and “frenemies” collecting […]

December 5, 2012

DATA CENTER

Hadoop in the Enterprise Data Center

2 min read

A little over a month ago we had a chance to present as session in conjunction with Eric Sammer of Cloudera on Designing Hadoop for the Enterprise Data Center and findings at Strata + Hadoop World 2012 . Taking a look back, we started this initiative back in early 2011 as the demand for Hadoop was […]

Putting a Human Face on Big Data at the Social Innovation Summit

1 min read

Today, everyone at Cisco is excited about the release of a new book — “The Human Face of Big Data” by Rick Smolan, a former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer best known as the creator of the “Day in the Life” book series. Cisco is a sponsor of the Human Face of Big Data […]

December 3, 2012

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco UCS Helps Scientists Reach for the Stars

1 min read

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an international collaborative project to construct a low frequency radio telescope as a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a global mega-science project to build the world’s largest radio telescope. The MWA after eight years of construction was finally launched last Friday in West Australia where Cisco announced […]