The We’re Listening Blog Series: Big Data Analytics Drive Faster Time to Services Quotes

Throughout the year, our customers and partners provide feedback to us about their experience doing business with Cisco. We take that feedback very seriously, and are constantly making improvements to address the most common themes we hear and improve the overall experience. In the We’re Listening Blog series, we close the loop to tell you […]

Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Cisco ACI with SAP HANA Vora

One of the common topics of debate in data management circles has been – do Big Data solutions replace traditional database solutions? The industry trends show that it will not, but instead the two will coexist and complement each other. Following this theme of coexistence, two years ago we at Cisco shared our vision of integrating with […]

TPC-DS V2 – A new benchmark standard for SQL based Big Data systems

Announced today, TPC-DS V2 is the Industry’s first standard for benchmarking SQL based big data systems. Over the last two years, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), has reinvented itself in several ways – with new standard developments in Big Data, Virtualization, and the Internet of Things. Foreseeing the demand for standards for characterizing big […]

A Year in Review. Big Data and Analytics 2015. 3rd Generation Platforms, World Record Performance, and Expanding Partner …

My goodness… Were we ever busy in 2015! Our Cisco Big Data & Analytics teams executed and delivered a tremendous body of work with several key accomplishments these past 12…

Big Data Partner Commentary: Speed, Efficiency and Disruption through Insight

Often it is said that ‘partnering’ is part of the Cisco DNA and its true: Cisco’s Partner ecosystem for years has brought together an ecosystem of trusted partners which deliver solutions, software and services that provide needed business solutions and outcomes. Cisco has a strong ‘bench’ of technology partners, too. These partners allow us to […]

Digital Transformation, Analytics, Big Data, Data Virtualization and More at the 2015 Data and Analytics Conference

The inaugural Data and Analytics Conference last month was, in my opinion, the best conference of the year. The brightest minds in the industry gathered for two days in Chicago to discuss the latest trends and new solutions for big data, the Internet of Things, cloud, analytics, digital transformation and data virtualization. Customers Featured With […]

Cisco UCS Delivers First-ever 100-terabyte and Best 3-TB and 30-TB Big Data Benchmark Results on the TPCx-HS Benchmark

Cisco UCS® Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data delivered industry’s first-ever 100-terabyte (TB) and best 3-TB and 30-TB results on the TPC Express Benchmark HS (TPCx-HS). These results demonstrate Cisco’s leadership with best performance at the scale factors of 3 and 30 TB, and Cisco is the first vendor to publish results for a scale factor […]