Robert Novak

Consulting Systems Engineer for Big Data
Cisco Systems – Software and Solutions Innovations

Robert Novak has been a technologist and Whovian by passion for over three decades, and a technologist by paycheck for at least two of those decades.

By day he is a Consulting Systems Engineer in Cisco’s Software and Solutions Innovation group, focusing on Big Data for the Americas Partner Organization.

In his copious free time he operates a used computer shop and museum in Silicon Valley, performs stand-up comedy, writes about home lab and other technology adventures on his personal blog, and obsesses over coffee in ritual and liquid forms.

Check Robert out on Twitter at @gallifreyan and visit his blog at rsts11.com

 

Robert Novak's Articles

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  Data Center

  The Three Superpowers behind your next SAP HANA deployment

  March 23, 2017 - 1 Comment

  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

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  Data Center

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

  January 20, 2017 - 1 Comment

  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

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  Data Center

  Tales of a Fourth-Grade Something: Big Data with Cisco & Splunk at .conf & Strata

  September 15, 2015 - 1 Comment

  Someone at a meeting recently told me how cool it was that big data was finally moving out of the early adopter phase. He’s lucky I wasn’t drinking a beverage

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  Data Center

  Big Data is better than a sharp stick in the eye

  March 5, 2015 - 2 Comments

  Big Data is better than a sharp stick in the eye. I can say this with great authority, since I missed the first half of Strata+Hadoop World 2015 in San

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  Perspectives

  Help Me Replace My Internet, So I Can Call You Over It

  January 27, 2014 - 0 Comments

  I was thinking about security over the last month or two; it comes to mind pretty often when working in technology and when listening to news coverage of technology. But

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  Perspectives

  IoE and JiT: making the future more efficient through connectivity

  January 8, 2014 - 1 Comment

  If there was a developing market opportunity that would bring you $19 trillion (with a “T”), you’d probably be interested, wouldn’t you. If that market’s impact on the world–not just

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  Perspectives

  Security and Insecurity in the Internet of Everything

  October 9, 2013 - 4 Comments

  The Internet of Everything is a big thing, and it’s going to get bigger. As more devices, sensors, gadgets, and people get interconnected, you’ll hear more and more about it.

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