AI/ML

May 9, 2019

DEVELOPER

Cisco Open-sources the MindMeld Conversational AI Platform

Over the past five years, conversational applications have entered the mainstream. Virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant, and Alexa field tens of billions of voice and natural language queries every month. Voice-enabled devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home reside in over a…

April 18, 2019

DEVELOPER

DevNet Shines at Google NEXT 2019

Following a relaxing post-conference weekend, I’ve spent the day distilling my notes and conversations from an excellent week at Google NEXT 19 in San Francisco. Cisco was there in full force, exhibiting our latest solutions in cloud security, collaboration, hybrid Kubernetes, AI/ML and of cou…

March 28, 2019

DATA CENTER

Ten Years Together: Celebrating a Decade of Customer Innovation with Cisco UCS

If you want to have an interesting conversation with someone, just ask them what they’re building. Everyone is building something in their personal and professional lives: families, teams, products, coalitions, solutions, bridges. And, when someone shares what they’re building, they’ll offer you a v…

March 19, 2019

DEVELOPER

Get Hands-on with the Cisco UCS C480 ML

It’s Chloe here, your trusty engineer-turned-biz-dev-manager. I’ve been working with the developer and partner ecosystem team in Cisco DevNet, and I’m especially excited to have the opportunity to reach the 2019 GPU Technology Conference developer audience with this post. I want to give you the low-…

March 14, 2019

DATA CENTER

Overcoming Unpredictable AI Data Pipelines

Is your data pipeline static?  Are you working with only fixed data sources with predictable data ingestion rate? Probably not?  Based on many customer discussions, the data pipeline is constantly changing to accommodate new data sources; hence, the data ingestion rate is often unpredictable.  The o…

February 4, 2019

DATA CENTER

Big Data Meets AI – Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Hortonworks

Guest Bloggers: Siva Sivakumar, Senior Director, UCS Solutions, Computing Systems Product Group, Cisco Karthik Kulkarni, Architect – Big Data Solutions, Computing Systems Product Group, Cisco   In today’s digital world where sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, social media, and online tr…

January 24, 2019

DATA CENTER

Power your AI and modern applications with FlexPod

As enterprises work towards digital transformation and operational efficiency, they need technology that can adapt to dramatic shifts across the organization and keep up with the ever-increasing demands of modern workloads and applications. Guest Blogger: Siva Sivakumar, Senior Director, UCS Soluti…

January 17, 2019

DATA CENTER

Scalable Solutions for the AI Data Pipeline: FlashStack for AI

This blog was co-written with Francoise Rees, Cisco Solution Marketing manager for AI and ML Last  September, Cisco announced a new UCS platform, the Cisco UCS C480ML M5 designed specifically for intensive AI and ML workloads. Cisco has met and worked with customers to identify workload patterns tha…

January 17, 2019

DATA CENTER

Performance, Scale, and Flexibility for Accelerating AI / ML

In the movie Top Gun, Tom Cruise had a famous line: “I feel the need–the need for speed!” When I talk to data scientists, they often express the same sentiment.  Charged with the responsibility of mining value out of numerous data sources, they often feel that they need ever more…