business insights

March 25, 2021

GOVERNMENT

Transforming the Public Sector with Cisco and Insight

5 min read

Like their private enterprise counterparts in 2020, educational institutions, state and local governments, and federal agencies needed a shift in their IT strategy to adapting successfully to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, Scott Frielander, vice president of Insight Public Sector, and Nick Michaelides, Cisco’s senior vice president for U.S. Public Sector, discussed how Cisco technology helped clients rapidly transition to new, innovative ways of serving the public.

January 18, 2017

DATA CENTER

Solid State Speed. Cisco and Intel Publish World Record Performance for Big Data Systems

2 min read

Cisco continues to lead the industry in performance for Big Data systems, this time smashing the previous TPCx-HS benchmark world record by over 14% while simultaneously reducing cost by 5%. The TPC developed the TPCx-HS benchmark several years ago as Big Data systems grew from a curiosity to one of the fastest growing segments in […]

September 30, 2015

NETWORKING

Connected Analytics: Learn to Live on the Edge – and Love It!

4 min read

Not surprisingly, as a networking company Cisco frequently publishes predictions on the growth of Internet traffic. Bragging unintended, typically the forecasts are pretty accurate. In a 2012 report we predicted that by 2017 there would be 2.5 devices and related connections for every person on earth, while there would be 5 devices and related connections […]