IoE

Welcome René Pluis to the Cisco Energy Blog

1 min read

Please join me in welcoming René Pluis to the Cisco Energy Blog. René is a member of my global energy team and has vast experience of Cisco architectures and technologies and how they can be applied to our customer’s business and technical challenges to create positive business outcomes. René has been working in the industrial network domain […]

January 15, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

New Study Tells Retailers: Win Consumers’ Trust to Deliver the Hyper-Relevant Experiences They Want

3 min read

As Cisco’s chief marketing officer, an important part of my role is to build and maintain the trust of Cisco’s customers.In fact, “brand promise” ultimately relies upon the trust consumers...

January 14, 2015

DATA CENTER

Fog Computing: The New Model for the IoE

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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 13, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Making the Last Traffic Jam a Reality

3 min read

Traffic jams aren’t just stressful—they’re expensive. A recent study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research revealed that in 2013 traffic jams cost the U.S. $124 billion. By 2030, they estimate the annual price of traffic in the U.S. and Europe will soar to $293 billion. Can we turn this around? I think so. […]

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.  […]

January 12, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

In Retail, Insight Is Currency, and Context Is King

3 min read

Today’s retailers face a rising tide of change, disruption, and challenges, all driven by technology. As their business landscape is upended, many are struggling to adapt to changing consumer behaviors,...

January 9, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

How Trinity Leeds is changing the future of retail with IoE

2 min read

Shopping centres have been around for thousands of years, supposedly starting in Ancient Rome. The basic concept of a shopping centre has not changed much since then; a large building, or multiple buildings connected, which contain a variety of retail stores, services and restaurants. However, we at Land Securities, a commercial property group based in […]

January 7, 2015

DATA CENTER

How To Gain an Edge by Taking Data Analytics to the Edge

4 min read

In Part 1 of this blog series, I talked about how data integration provides a critical foundation for capturing actionable insights that generate improved outcomes. Now, in Part 2, I’ll focus on the two other challenges that must be met to extract value from data: 1) automating the collection of data, and 2) analyzing the […]