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Raghunath Nambiar

No Longer with Cisco

Raghu Nambiar helps define strategies for next generation architectures, systems, and datacenter solutions, as well as leads a team of engineers and product leaders focused on emerging technologies and solutions – big data, analytics, internet of things and artificial intelligence. He has played an instrumental role in accelerating the growth of the Cisco UCS to a top datacenter compute platform. Raghu was previously a Cisco distinguished engineer and chief architect of big data and analytics solution engineering responsible for incubating and growing it to a mainstream portfolio. He brings years of technical accomplishments with significant expertise in systems architecture, performance engineering, and creating disruptive technology solutions.

Raghu has served in leadership positions on industry standards committees for performance evaluation and leading academic conferences. He chaired industry’s first standards committee for benchmarking big data systems, industry’s first standards committee for benchmarking Internet of Things, and founding chair of TPC’s International Conference Series on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, 10 books in Lecture Series in Computer Science (LNCS), and holds five patents with several pending. Prior to Cisco, Raghu was an architect at Hewlett-Packard responsible for several industry-first and disruptive technology solutions and a decade of performance benchmark leadership. He holds master’s degrees from University of Massachusetts and Goa University and completed an advanced management program from Stanford University.

Raghu’s recent book titled Transforming Industry Through Data Analytics examines the role of analytics in enabling digital transformation, how the explosion in internet connections affects key industries, and how applied analytics will impact our future.

Articles

October 22, 2013

DATA CENTER

SAP HANA + UCS CPA for Big Data = Simplifying the Deployment of Real-time Big Data Analytics

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Extending our vision of shared infrastructure and unified management for enterprise applications, we are announcing industry’s first validated and certified solution for real-time Big Data analytics with SAP HANA. Based on our joint work with Intel and SAP at the SAP Co-innovation Lab (COIL), the solution integrates SAP HANA with Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop […]

September 29, 2013

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1st IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2013

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Big Data is one of the most talked about topics of today across industry, government and research. It is becoming the center of Investments, Innovations and Improvization‎s (3I’s), and no exaggeration to say that Big Data is Transforming the World. Considering it’s potential the IEEE Computer Society is conducting the IEEE International Conference on Big […]

September 18, 2013

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TeraSort Results on Cisco UCS and Announcing Cisco Big Data Design Zone

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While there is not yet an industry standard benchmark for measuring the performance of Hadoop systems (yes, there is work in progress – WBDB, BigDataTop100 etc), workloads like TeraSort have become a popular choice to benchmark and stress test Hadoop clusters. TeraSort is very simple, consists of three map/reduce programs (i) TeraGen – generates the dataset […]

September 3, 2013

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Cisco Validated Design for Cisco UCS CPA for Big Data with Cloudera

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Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data offers a comprehensive stack for enterprise Hadoop deployments. Today we announce the availability of Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for Cloudera (CDH) that describes the architecture and deployment procedures, jointly tested and certified by Cisco and Cloudera to accelerate deployments while reducing the risks, complexity, and total cost of ownership. […]

July 30, 2013

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Announcing Flexpod Select with Hadoop

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Speed is everything. Continuing our commitment to make data center infrastructures more responsive to enterprise applications demands, today, we announced FlexPod Select with Hadoop, formerly known as NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, broadening our FlexPod portfolio.  Developed in collaboration between Cisco and NetApp, offers an enterprise-class infrastructure that accelerates time to value from your data. […]

May 7, 2013

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Announcing 5th International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

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The Transaction Processing Performance Council today announced its fifth international Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2013). I’ve the great privilege of chairing TPCTC  series since 2009. This year’s conference will be collocated with the 39th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2013) on August 26, 2013 in Riva del Garda, Italy. […]

March 5, 2013

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Cisco Platform for NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop

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Cisco and NetApp have been partners for over a decade, and in January we announced the planned expansion of our partnership. We are always looking to work with our partners in new ways to offer customers greater choice, and Cisco and NetApp are working toward delivering a complete platform for enterprises in data-intensive industries with […]

February 27, 2013

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Building on Success: Cisco and Intel Expand Partnership to Big Data

This has been an exciting week. Further expanding its Big Data portfolio, Cisco has announced collaboration with Intel, its long term partner, for the next generation of open platform for data management and analytics. The joint solution combines Intel® Distribution for Apache Hadoop Software with Cisco’s Common Platform Architecture (CPA) to deliver performance, capacity, and […]

February 25, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco to support EMC Pivotal HD on UCS

Our Common Platform Architecture (CPA) for Big Data has been gaining momentum as a viable platform for enterprise big data deployments. The newest addition to the portfolio is EMC’s new Pivotal HD™ that natively integrates Greenplum MPP database technology with Apache Hadoop enabling SQL applications and traditional business intelligence tools directly on Hadoop framework. Extending support for Pivotal HD on Cisco […]

February 13, 2013

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Big Data Top100 List

Updated 3/2/20313 Big Data is quickly becoming a critical priority for enterprises across all verticals.  Yet, there is currently a lack of any means of fair comparability of performance and price-performance of underlying platforms. The Big Data Benchmarking Community established last year to fill this void is announcing the efforts that have been undertaken thus far toward the […]