analytics

May 30, 2017

DATA CENTER

Big Data Analytics Helps India Nonprofit Prevent Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking is one of the largest problems the world faces today. But My Choices Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in India, is using big data analytics to help fight it. How are they doing it? With technology partners, effective education and outreach. While many organizations work t…

Cisco Powers Wi-Fi Network at MWC 2017

Catching up on emails some two months after the event, I finally got a look at the impressive Wi-Fi network metrics from Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017, where Cisco again worked with the GSMA to successfully provide one of the world’s largest carrier-grade Wi-Fi networks. During the event at…

May 9, 2017

DATA CENTER

Catena selected as Best of Interop 2017 finalist

  In the light of inserting various L4-L7 services, deploying infrastructure for multi-tenant applications can be very complex! Catena, the latest innovation from Cisco can help. But don’t just take our word for it. Previously chosen as the product of the week ,Catena has now been selected as B…

Cisco Expands Analytics Footprint with New Talent and Technology Acquisition

Today, Cisco is announcing its intent to acquire the Advanced Analytics team and associated advanced analytics intellectual property developed by Saggezza, a privately-held technology services company. As applications are moving to the cloud and billions of things are connecting to the network, our…

May 1, 2017

NETWORKING

Defining Network Programmability

Network programmability is such a generic term, like SDN and the whole Software Defined X paradigm, that it means different things to different people. Not so long ago network programmability was synonymous with Openflow but as time passed and pragmatism kicked in, the industry settled around a comm…

March 30, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco and SAS Software. Trusted. Powerful. Comprehensive.

‘…It takes a big village…’ so to speak when it comes to bringing enterprise-class big data & analytics solutions to the market. It is for this reason that our Cisco UCS team partners with several key ISVs in the big data segment be they Hadoop vendors, analytics providers, MySQL platforms, etc.…

March 27, 2017

DATA CENTER

Catena

Catena is a multi-terabit service chaining, security, load-balancing, analytics and L4-L7 applications integration solution. Eg, Catena can perform these operations at 40 Tbps. Have you ever found yourself entangled in deploying multiple applications, L4-L7 services, network devices, VMs and Contain…

March 27, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Spelunking. Exploring Cisco’s Splunk Community and Other News Bits

  Splunk is one of our key Cisco UCS ISV Partners in the area of data and analytics for the Data Center.  Big Data as we all know throws off tons of structured and unstructured data and the ability to discover its meaning and therefore value requires good analytics capabilities. This is where S…

March 23, 2017

DATA CENTER

The Three Superpowers behind your next SAP HANA deployment

When I started supporting enterprise application platforms at the turn of the century, the model was pretty simple: a single, huge server with expensive high-performance storage behind it. If you outgrew the storage, you could add more, and if you outgrew the server, you bought the next larger box.…