Big Data

March 5, 2018

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Publishes the First Ever Audited Result of the TPC-DS Benchmark with Hadoop

Guest Blogger: Manan Trivedi, Big Data Solution Architect Apache Hadoop started as a framework to store and process very large data sets in a distributed manner in a cost-effective way. Initially, this distributed data processing was limited to batch processing only. More recently, tools have been d…

March 5, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Workload protection is a full cycle. Tetration uniquely delivers on it all.

There’s always an inherent challenge between providing a secure infrastructure for your applications and delivering agility. How do you manage a complex web – where apps are dynamic and distributed across your own data center and the cloud – and keep security at the front of your priorities? I…

February 8, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Five things that are bigger than the Internet: Findings from this year’s Global Cloud Index

The scale of the Internet is awe-inspiring. By 2021, there will be 4.6 billion people and 27 billion devices connected to the Internet, and Internet traffic will reach 2.8 trillion Gigabytes (or 2.8 Zettabytes) per year. (These numbers are published in our annual Visual Networking Index.) Even with…

February 5, 2018

DATA CENTER

Internet of Things (IoT) Data Continues to Explode Exponentially. Who Is Using That Data and How?

IoT and data statistics are staggering, to the point of appearing fantastical: 5 quintillion bytes of data produced every day (that’s 2.5 followed by 18 zeros) By the year 2020, the IoT will comprise more than 30 billion connected devices It would take a lifetime to manually analyze the data produc…

January 9, 2018

NETWORKING

Bridging the gap between IT and Business through Big Data Analytics

The role of IT and networking specifically as we know it, is changing in the eyes of many Cisco stakeholders, primarily: (1) IT Experts and (2) Business Leaders. This combined with the changing expectations of the millennial generation will have a huge impact on the next market transition. Simplisti…

January 4, 2018

GOVERNMENT

Top 10 Smart City Trends for 2018

Did you know that Smart Cities are poised to drive significant change in how we work, play and learn in 2018? Thanks to the explosion in big data analytics capabilities and mobile, real-time video/information sharing, historians may someday look back on this year as the fulcrum upon which technology…

September 20, 2017

DATA CENTER

Cisco at Strata Data Conference

As we move further into the digital transformation era, the amount of data being created and things being connected continues to explode. This explosion in connections and data combined with applied analytics has the potential to transform our cities, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing and en…

September 19, 2017

DATA CENTER

Top 10 Considerations for SAP Big Data and Analytics

It’s that time again: SAP TechEd in Las Vegas!  Local temperatures have cooled to a balmy 150 degrees outside the convention center and 10 degrees inside, reminding us that SAP Data Center refresh season is once again upon us. This year at TechEd, Cisco will focus on securing critical SAP data and s…

September 16, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Looking for the most refined weapon to combat piracy? Use data

By Orly Amsalem, data scientist at Cisco Who is Stealing Credentials? Imagine a hacker.  You’re probably visualizing a blurred image in a white mask or a black hoodie, typing lines of code, determined to hack into secure sites, steal credit cards, and collect valuable, previously private data. Now i…