Big Data
Turbocharging new Hadoop workloads with Application Centric Infrastructure
At the June Hadoop Summit in San Jose, Hadoop was re-affirmed as the data center “killer app,” riding an avalanche of Enterprise Data, which is growing 50x annually through 2020. According to IDC, the Big Data market itself growing six times faster than the rest of IT. Every major tech company, old…
The Dynamic Protective Shield of Big Data Analytics
As we think of Healthcare and Big data Analytics, some of the topics that come to fore front are personalized medicines, managing readmissions, identifying health risk indexes and many more. While each of these is important areas that benefit from power of Big Data Analytics, one of the areas that i…
Data Driven Decision Making at Pfizer – A Case Study in Data Virtualization
Finding a molecule with the potential to become a new drug is complicated. It’s time-consuming. Fewer than 10 percent of molecules or compounds discovered are promising enough to enter the development pipeline. And fewer of those ever come to market. At Pfizer, if it were not for data virtualizatio…
New CSA Survey Highlights Opportunities for Data Privacy Harmonization Across Cloud, IoT and Big Data
Responses in a recent Cisco-sponsored Cloud Security Alliance survey (hyperlink) illustrate that many data privacy challenges previously cast in the “too hard” basket can be more readily navigated though focusing on universal principles across Cloud, IoT and Big Data. Survey responses showed a sur…
Unlock The Value of Big Data with Cisco Unified Computing System
Big Data is not just about gathering tons of data, the digital exhaust from the internet, social media, and customer records. The real value is in being able to analyze the data to gain a desired business outcome. Those of us who follow the Big Data market closely never lack for something new to…
Top 10 ISV challenges with Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social Transformation
In my previous blog, I highlighted the need in ISV’s business transformation due to various changes in the market. Although ISVs are bound to face challenges as they shift their approach to application development, they must also be weary of the challenges that can come with other technological aven…
Manufacturers Are Following the Crowd to ‘Drive’ Innovation
The appetite for the latest new products and services is growing exponentially driven by the 24 hour, on demand, social media driven, next day delivery expecting, ‘selfie’ posing with the new shiny object, hyper informed consumer. Satisfying the demand for this fast-paced consumer cycle requ…
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Memoir Systems
Today, I am pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire privately held Memoir Systems, a company that develops semiconductor memory intellectual property (IP) and tools that enable ASIC vendors to build programmable network switches with increasing speeds. This acquisition will enable the prolifer…
Cisco UCS: Powering Applications at Every Scale
If you follow the news in the world of data center you probably noticed a small announcement from Cisco last week regarding the UCS portfolio… 🙂 To net it out in a simple way, I’ve been telling people that the trail of innovation that Cisco has been blazing with UCS just got a lot wider. That’s…