Big Data

March 26, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Open innovation: Harnessing the ideas, talent and passion of the startup eco-system

2 min read

What does an already innovative company like Cisco do more to innovate?  What do we need to do differently to influence or shape the next breakthrough that will fundamentally change our industry and Cisco?  As we embark on a journey to transform Cisco into a #1 IT solution provider, we know we must innovate more […]

March 21, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

The Three Mega Trends in Cloud and IoT

3 min read

A consequence of the Moore Nielsen prediction is the phenomenon known as Data Gravity: big data is hard to move around, much easier for the smaller applications to come to it. Consider this: it took mankind over 2000 years to produce 2 Exabytes (2×1018 bytes) of data until 2012; now we produce this much in […]

From the Mine Shaft to the Store Shelf — an IoE Revolution in Manufacturing

3 min read

Since Henry Ford, the alchemy of turning raw materials into mass-produced products has been complicated and challenging. At best, it has been a delicate and precarious balancing act; at worst, something akin to herding cats. The trick has always been to align ever-shifting patterns of customer demand with far-flung ecosystems of miners, designers, suppliers, engineers, […]

March 12, 2014

DATA CENTER

Big Data Now and Then: Introducing Velocity to Volume and Variety

3 min read

Never before has mankind had access to such an ever-widening range of personal communication options, giving us the ability to create, disseminate and consume information immediately. The frenetic pace at which devices join the Internet is unprecedented, and the constant growth in the amount of data traversing the Web is far from peaking. This whirlwind […]

March 7, 2014

OPEN AT CISCO

Open Source is just the other side, the wild side!

1 min read

March is a rather event-laden month for Open Source and Open Standards in networking: the 89th IETF, EclipseCon 2014, RSA 2014, the Open Networking Summit, the IEEE International Conference on Cloud (where I’ll be talking about the role of Open Source as we morph the Cloud down to Fog computing) and my favorite, the one […]

Observations from Mobile World Congress 2014

5 min read

I have just returned from a very interesting and jammed-packed week at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. More than 75,000 people were estimated to have attended this...

March 4, 2014

SECURITY

Big Data Ecosystem Challenges

4 min read

Information security is one of the largest business problems facing organisations. Log data generated from networks and computer systems can be aggregated, stored, and analysed to identify where misuse occurs. The enormous amount of data involved in these analyses is beyond the capability of traditional systems and requires a new, big data approach. Given the […]

February 26, 2014

HEALTHCARE

Summary: Healthcare in the Cloud and the Benefits of Analyzing Patient Data

1 min read

The Internet of Everything is altering not only our personal lives, but also business practices across every major industry – healthcare included. From telehealth to increasing caregiver efficiency to data sharing, the IoE enables opportunities for improvement. But with these new connections and advances in healthcare technology, many physicians and healthcare professionals are skeptical of […]

February 26, 2014

DATA CENTER

Healthcare in the Cloud: Benefits of Analyzing Patient Data

2 min read

The Internet of Everything is altering not only our personal lives, but also business practices across every major industry – healthcare included. From telehealth to increasing caregiver efficiency to data sharing, the IoE enables opportunities for improvement. But with these new connections and advances in healthcare technology, many physicians and healthcare professionals are skeptical of […]