IBM BigInsights
“P” is for Performance… The new Cisco UCS S3260 has plenty of it!
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Earlier this month we introduced our new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Servers, with the S3260 being first in market. The S Series is a new storage-optimized server category in the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) portfolio designed specifically to address the needs of data intensive workloads such as Big Data, and for deploying software-defined storage, […]
The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change. Big Data Trends and Directions Webinar
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The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the source of the phrase “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change”. His saying is totally applicable to today’s world of Big Data and Analytics. Our industry landscape is constantly changing, no doubt about that! Think about it a bit from a technology point of view: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, […]
Strata+Hadoop 2016 New York City. Top 10 Reasons for Visiting Cisco. Booth #833
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In honor of David Letterman… we hope we did him proud: 10 – Come Fly the Friendly Skies of Cisco. Hey, we are raffling off a drone end of day on Wednesday and Thursday. These are not just any old white box drones. These are custom Cisco branded drones. It’s a super limited […]
There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be 1st – Cisco, IBM Speed Up Big Data Performance
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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 […]
Cisco @ Strata-Hadoop World Wrap-Up: If we can make it there, we’ll make it anywhere…
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We made it…another successful Strata-Hadoop World show for Cisco’s Big Data & Analytics team. This year we had a few unique challenges – the Pope was leaving town when we arrived; then the UN General Assembly made traffic a bit more difficult than normal; finally towards week’s end the threat of ‘The Hurricane’ for […]
Thinking Bigger! Cisco + IBM – Collaboration of giants brings industry-leading solution for big data analytics
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In December 2014, we announced VersaStack, an integrated infrastructure reference solution for enterprise applications that combines technologies from Cisco and IBM. Further extending this partnership, today we are announcing support for IBM BigInsights for Apache Hadoop on our Cisco UCS Integrated infrastructure for Big Data – an industry-leading platform widely adapted for enterprise big data application deployments. The joint […]
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