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Call for Nominations: 2014 Data Virtualization Leadership Awards
The Data Virtualization Leadership Awards recognize organizations for data virtualization initiatives with significant business impact, agility and innovation. Has your organization executed a data initiative with significant business impact, agility or innovation that should be celebrated? Do you…
Active Archiving with Big Data
Historical data is now an essential tool for businesses as they struggle to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, manage risk and perform predictive analytics that help improve business outcomes. While recent data is readily accessible in operational systems and some summarized histor…
Save Big Money with Big Data
Data in data warehouses doubles every 2.5 years. For users, this means more data to analyze, leading to better business outcomes. That’s the good news. The bad news is that this extra storage capacity and computing power comes at a cost. A high cost it turns out. So what is an enterprise to do…
Data Virtualization: Live at Cisco Live! San Francisco
It has been a great year for Data Virtualization at Cisco Live! Milan, Melbourne, and Toronto were fantastic opportunities to introduce Data Virtualization to Cisco customer and partner audiences. And we have saved the best for last with multiple activities at Cisco Live! San Francisco. We kick t…
How Data Virtualization Helps Data Scientists
By now it is clear that big data analytics opens the door to unprecedented analytic opportunities for business innovation, customer retention and profit growth. However, a shortage of data scientists is creating a bottleneck as organizations move from early big data experiments into larger scale ado…
Data Virtualization: Achieve Better Business Outcomes, Faster
Data, Data Everywhere! The challenge of making business decisions in a networked world isn’t a lack of data. It’s having data residing in multiple systems, global locations, locked away in spreadsheets, and in people’s heads. Almost every enterprise faces this data silos challenge to a greater or le…
The Fourth V in Big Data
At Cisco Live! Melbourne, I was invited to speak at the Executive Symposium to nearly 100 of Cisco’s top customers in the Australia and New Zealand region. In my talk, Gaining Insight from the Big Data Avalanche, I covered big data business opportunities and technology challenges. To level set at t…
Customers Gather in NYC to Talk Data Virtualization
This year Cisco held Data Virtualization Day 2013 at the New York Palace in New York City. With 350 attendees from more than 130 organizations, it marked the largest event to date and showcased data virtualization is top of mind for organizations as they try to extract more value out of their data.…
Data Virtualization Meets the Network
The acquisition of Composite Software by Cisco has created quite a stir in the enterprise IT community. Data virtualization and networking – how does that make sense? One should assume that before it invested $180M in Composite, Cisco must have had something in mind. And a recent report entitled “D…