Apache Hadoop

October 26, 2016

DATA CENTER

The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change. Big Data Trends and Directions Webinar

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…

October 10, 2016

DATA CENTER

.conf2016 – Beyond Machine Data. Cisco and Splunk Pave the Way for Digital Transformation

  Guest Blog: Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer Karthik Karupasamy highlights his experiences from Splunk’s recent .conf2016 event in Orlando, FL. What an amazing week I had at Splunk’s annual user conference,. conf2016! This is the second year I attended and it just keeps getting bette…

October 6, 2016

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Business Insights Driven by Speed: An Olympic Size Example of Big Data

Last week the Big Data and Analytics world was focused on New York City as the annual Strata+Hadoop World event took place. Cisco, as is the norm these past few years, was one of the many sponsors of the event. With our sponsorship came various opportunities, one of which was the ability for us to p…

July 11, 2016

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There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be 1st – Cisco, IBM Speed Up Big Data Performance

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 leadershi…

June 29, 2016

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New! Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark

Well, we do not stand still for long…at least our R&D teams don’t! The breadth of our solutions for Big Data and Analytics continues to grow, as we are pleased to introduce Cisco’s UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data and Analytics with Cloudera and Apache Spark.  Working with one of…

April 8, 2016

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Delivers Big Benchmark Results for Big Data

Cisco UCS benchmarking success in the Big Data space continues. We invest and lead in Big Data workload benchmark tests as these workloads are commonly found in UCS-oriented Data Centers around the world. The guiding principles our Cisco UCS teams follow for benchmarking in the Big Data arena are:…

September 28, 2015

DATA CENTER

Thinking Bigger! Cisco + IBM – Collaboration of giants brings industry-leading solution for big data analytics

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…