MapR

December 11, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco & MapR set a Software Defined Storage World Record

3 min read

Cisco and MapR have been setting records since we published the industry’s first Big Data benchmark in 2015. Now we use an HDFS-compatible platform to blow away all SPEC SFS benchmarks.

July 20, 2017

PARTNER

Goal – Total Gridlock on Human Trafficking

1 min read

Human trafficking is the third largest crime industry in the world. In India, one girl is sold into sex slavery every ten minutes. Most organizations that work to eliminate human trafficking focus on fighting the crime after it occurs. They rescue girls and prosecute criminals. Operation Red Alert is taking a different approach, focusing instead on […]

March 23, 2017

DATA CENTER

The Three Superpowers behind your next SAP HANA deployment

1 min read

When I started supporting enterprise application platforms at the turn of the century, the model was pretty simple: a single, huge server with expensive high-performance storage behind it. If you outgrew the storage, you could add more, and if you outgrew the server, you bought the next larger box. It was a very monolithic design, […]

January 20, 2017

DATA CENTER

It’s no use going back to yesterday’s storage platform for tomorrow’s applications

1 min read

There’s a line in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice says “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Some days I feel that way about my storage infrastructures as well. I fell down a particular rabbit-hole into storage management accidentally almost 20 years ago. I wouldn’t have seen […]

November 10, 2016

DATA CENTER

Big Data is Big Business for Quantium

2 min read

According to IDC, the big data market, including services such as analytics, is expected to reach nearly $50 billion by 2019. Luckily for Quantium, data is in its...

October 26, 2016

DATA CENTER

The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change. Big Data Trends and Directions Webinar

1 min read

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the source of the phrase “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change”.  His saying is totally applicable to today’s world of Big Data and Analytics. Our industry landscape is constantly changing, no doubt about that! Think about it a bit from a technology point of view: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, […]

October 6, 2016

DATA CENTER

Business Insights Driven by Speed: An Olympic Size Example of Big Data

1 min read

Last week the Big Data and Analytics world was focused on New York City as the annual Strata+Hadoop World event took place. Cisco, as is the norm these past few years, was one of the many sponsors of the event. With our sponsorship came various opportunities, one of which was the ability for us to […]

September 27, 2016

DATA CENTER

Strata+Hadoop 2016 New York City. Top 10 Reasons for Visiting Cisco. Booth #833

2 min read

  In honor of David Letterman… we hope we did him proud: 10 –       Come Fly the Friendly Skies of Cisco. Hey, we are raffling off a drone end of day on Wednesday and Thursday. These are not just any old white box drones. These are custom Cisco branded drones. It’s a super limited […]

September 21, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco, Big Data, and Strata+Hadoop 2016. In a New York Minute…

1 min read

OK, a New York minute? In less than 60 seconds let’s see what’s going on with Cisco at Strata+Hadoop 2016 New York City next week. The event is the largest Big Data event in the Americas and we look forward to attending each year. Cool Things… We have a lot happening with learning and listening […]