BigData

How to Make Your In-Store Data Meaningful

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As an omnichannel retailer, you are probably offering your products to shoppers both online and in brick-and-mortar stores. And, like most retailers, you are no doubt collecting online data and running detailed website analytics that help you track preferred products, pricing, shopper behavior, ratings, and so on. But are you able to gather these same […]

June 9, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 5: Cisco and Splunk: The Weapons of a Security Warrior

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In this 5th why I love big data blog series, I am joined by Jeff Aboud from Splunk to outline why big data security analytics is essential to today’s security challenges. Jeff Aboud, Sr. Solutions Marketing Manager, Security Markets, Splunk Jeff Aboud has more than a dozen years in various areas of the security industry, […]

June 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 4: Distributed Big Data Cluster with Cisco UCS and MapR–Store Locally, Query Ev …

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Next in our series of Why I Love Big Data is Bruce from MapR.  Together, Cisco and MapR are working on a very cool solution for keeping data local, but accessing very quickly.  Also, come by the Connected Banking stand in the Cisco Live World of Solutions and DevNet area to see a demo of the […]

June 5, 2015

DATA CENTER

Find and Fix Problems Faster with New Splunk Integration for Cisco UCS

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IT infrastructures are increasingly complex and include a broad range of technologies and platforms hosted in physical, virtual and cloud environments. Cisco UCS has become a world leading server platform in large part because the unique UCS architecture enables organization to harness the power of virtualization and dramatically simplify infrastructure management. Splunk is a great […]

June 3, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 2: Reduced Downtime, Happier Customers and Improved TCO with SAP, Hortonworks and Cis …

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Following the Hortonworks Blog, we are lucky to have James Gold from SAP as next blogger in the Why I love Big Data guest partner series. James explains how customers experience is greatly improved via predictive maintenance in a connected factory. James Gold, Director, Global Technology Partner Marketing, SAP SE Jim is an enterprise software veteran who’s […]

June 2, 2015

DATA CENTER

Why I Love Big Data Partner Series 1: Leverage Big Data at Scale, with Cisco and Hortonworks

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As the first in the series of “Why I love Big Data blogs” with our Big Data and Analytics partners, I am pleased to have Cecile...

May 29, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco and Big Data and Analytics Partners unveil vertical solutions at Cisco Live

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Why do I love Big Data so much? It’s because there are endless possibilities to deliver on the Internet of Everything (IoE) opportunity that will create new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunities for businesses, countries, and individuals. Analytics is an enormous part of that value creation and is estimated to drive $7.3T of the $19T IoE opportunity over […]

February 27, 2015

DATA CENTER

Oh, The Things You Learn After Hours!

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks for us in big data land. One thing that struck me is how much we learned about the big data and analytics space after hours at Strata Hadoop, and sometimes that can be just as exciting as what we learn during the sessions. I have a couple of […]

December 12, 2014

GOVERNMENT

How the Journey of Data Can Transform Cities

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In the modern world, terms like “big data”and “open data”are making their way from tech industry forums and into local innovation initiatives across cities. And Kansas City, MO., is no exception. Earlier this year, Think Big Partners– based in the City of Fountains and aspiring to be one of the most entrepreneurial cities in the […]