Data Center

Author: Siva Sivakumar – Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is accelerating and Hadoop is emerging as one of the most common way of managing data for AI. We announced Cisco Data Intelligence Platform (CDIP) in June, paving the wa…

Digital Transformation calls for the right combination of people, process and technology. Done right, it brings efficiency and the agility to deliver what the business needs – fast. Done wrong, it can result in more complexity and cost – especially in a globally distributed business. In this blog I…

Customer Requirements for Application Modernization Applications are more distributed and complex than ever. According to IDC, by 2022, 90% of new enterprise applications will be developed as cloud-native applications. The report also goes on to say that by 2023, over 500 million digital apps and s…

Fact. The numbers of apps worldwide will double in 2020. Fact. 50% of the apps today will be re-factored and become more distributed. Fact. Inter-app dependence will increase by 250% in the next 12 months. Fact. IT downtime costs North American organizations $700 billion per year and it requires IT…

Many organizations struggle with managing an increasingly complex IT infrastructure, while keeping their businesses innovative and agile. As a consequence, enterprises began migrating workloads to public cloud providers, only to discover a new set of constraints such as security, data sovereignty, i…

Attending Cisco Live Barcelona this year? Cisco has chosen Barcelona for its first Cisco Live in this new decade. Not only will you get to experience the beautiful city of Joan Miro and Antoni Gaudi, of tapas and paellas, you’ll also could brush up on Cisco certifications, learn about some exciting…

2010 was a year I’ll never forget. Whether it was because I was severely disappointed and heartbroken in the season finale of Lost or not, I’ll never tell. The launch of Instagram, Angry Birds, The Jersey Shore and the first iPad also defined pop culture that year – and are still leading it in one w…

With sunny skies and balmy weather, Barcelona is Europe’s greatest city to visit in the winter.  It is also the time when the cultural calendar swings into action, and often hosts the best festivals and exhibitions of the year. For me, the special draw is Cisco Live Barcelona, where I get the  oppor…

The challenge of operating a data center has never been greater. But the opportunities have never been larger. Today, data-driven businesses (which is to say, most businesses) are changing rapidly to stay competitive. There are more applications than ever, and more different classes of people and ma…