Big Data

Data Science Applied In Business Today. In the past decade, there has been an explosion in the application of data science outside of academic realms. The use of general, statistical, predictive machine learning models has achieved high success rates across multiple occupations including finance, ma…

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…

Author: Siva Sivakumar – Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Data scientists constant search for newer techniques and technologies that can unlock the power of their data is leading them towards artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools and methods. Consequently, this evolution…

Author: Siva Sivakumar – Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Data scientists are constantly searching for newer techniques and methodologies that can unlock the value of big data and distill this data further to identify additional insights which could transform productivity and provide bus…

The smart cities movement continues to mature, with the realization that a more human-centric approach must take center stage. This was especially notable in Denver, Colorado during the recent Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo where the role of big data, digital transportation, and smarter po…

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…

The way we think about Smart Cities will undergo a major re-think in 2019. As smartphones reach peak saturation and the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a normal part of our lives, we expect a long overdue refocus from the technology to the people it helps. And best of all, we think the smart city m…

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…

Growing up, one of the things that fascinated me about the old Star Trek shows was the crew’s ability to find out virtually anything from the ship’s computer, simply by asking: “Computer, what’s the political situation on Rigel V?” The computer would respond instantly with an appropriate summary and…