Raghunath Nambiar

Distinguished Engineer
Data Center Business Group

Raghunath Nambiar is a distinguished engineer and chief architect of big data and analytics solution engineering. His current focus areas include emerging technologies, data center solutions, and big data and analytics strategy. He is Cisco’s representative for standards bodies for system performance. He has years of technical accomplishments with significant expertise in system architecture, performance engineering and creating disruptive technology solutions. He has served on several industry standard committees for performance evaluation and program committees of leading academic conferences. He chaired the industry’s first standards committee for benchmarking big data systems. He is a member of the IEEE big data steering committee, board of directors of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), and founding chair of its International Conference Series on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking. He has published 50+ peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Raghu holds master's degrees from University of Massachusetts and Goa University, and completed advanced management program from Stanford University.

Raghunath Nambiar's Articles

Data Center
Beyond Hadoop-as-a-Service: The Opportunity for Big-Data-as-a-Service
Raghunath Nambiar - August 31, 2016 - 5 Comments

I’ve written in the past about the opportunity for Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) – providing self-service provisioning, elastic scaling, and support for
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Data Center
Powering the Next Generation Big Data Architecture for Data-in-Motion and Data-at-Rest
Raghunath Nambiar - August 1, 2016 - 3 Comments

Every enterprise is becoming a data business. Data is the lifeline that guides intelligent decision making, enabling enterprises to effectively serve their customers.
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Data Center
Forrester names Cisco UCS a Leader
Raghunath Nambiar - June 2, 2016 - 5 Comments

Recognition for Cisco UCS continues! Forrester Research recently positioned Cisco as a “Leader” in their report: The Forrester Wave™: Big
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Data Center
It’s all about analytics! 4th Generation of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data
Raghunath Nambiar - May 12, 2016 - 5 Comments

It’s all about analytics! From data, to insight, and then action. Analytics, along with Internet of Things, represent the foundation
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Data Center
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI with SAP HANA Vora
Raghunath Nambiar - January 25, 2016 - 6 Comments

One of the common topics of debate in data management circles has been – do Big Data solutions replace traditional database
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Data Center
TPC-DS V2 – A new benchmark standard for SQL based Big Data systems
Raghunath Nambiar - December 17, 2015 - 0 Comments

Announced today, TPC-DS V2 is the Industry’s first standard for benchmarking SQL based big data systems. Over the last two
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