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

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 […]

Digital transformation, Big Data and Hadoop …

There is no better venue than Strata + Hadoop 2016 to talk about digital transformation, big data and Hadoop. Let me start with the Internet of Everything which represents a global market transition driven by a surge in connections among people, processes, data and things. The Internet of Things is focused on devices, but when you connect the unconnected, the Internet […]

Bringing the Benefits of Big Data to Businesses

As our world becomes more connected, we have access to an increasing volume of data. This is exciting for organizations of all types. For example, retailers can begin to correlate customer data across multiple sources to identity shopping patterns. Utility companies can track usage throughout regions to optimize availability and avoid blackouts. And businesses of […]

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

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 […]

Powering the Next Generation Big Data Architecture for Data-in-Motion and Data-at-Rest

Every enterprise is becoming a data business. Data is the lifeline that guides intelligent decision making, enabling enterprises to effectively serve their customers. The rise of data has led to the modernization of data infrastructure, with Apache Hadoop as a critical foundational element for data storage and processing. Designed as a multi-workload platform, Apache Hadoop, along with related […]

There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be 1st – Cisco, IBM Speed Up Big Data Performance

Being first definitely feels good! Once again our Cisco UCS compute family showcases its leadership capabilities with two new TPCx-HS benchmarks. Cisco was the first vendor to publish TPCx-HS (The industry’s first Big Data benchmark standard for Hadoop) results in 2015 and we continue this leadership trend today with more top tier results. Our new […]

New! Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark

Well, we do not stand still for long…at least our R&D teams don’t! The breadth of our solutions for Big Data and Analytics continues to grow, as we are pleased to introduce Cisco’s UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark.  Working with one of our key Big Data ISV […]

Big Data, Facility Planning and Quantum Mechanics

What could these three things possibly have to do with each other? A fundamental concept of quantum mechanics is that the position of sub-atomic particles like electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom is defined as a probability function… and when we started thinking about how to measure people moving through a building, the models […]