Big Data

Google, Uber, Ford. They are the big names in driverless vehicles. But did you know Cisco is already empowering nearly every Connected Car on Earth? Through its cloud-based IoT platform, Jasper, Cisco has become a key player in Smart Car technology, helping Honda launch its connected car services ac…

High-performance computing – or HPC – fuels groundbreaking research. To show you how this powerful technology can be used across disciplines in higher education, we’ve started a high-performance computing series that provides real use cases for these supercomputers. Today, we’re talking big data. If…

What is data science? Is it just another buzz word for applied statistics? Some statisticians certainly think so. I believe data science is much more than that. Think transformation. Think about how connecting theory to actual data can enable better business decision-making that directly impacts com…

It’s an ugly domino effect: As application data grows exponentially—and more rapidly—by the day, the vertical stability of relational database management systems (RDBMS) saturates, and query performance degrades. These conditions undermine the performance of applications that rely on those databases…

What will cities look like in the future? With the birth of Machine Learning, explosion in Artificial Intelligence and our increasingly Tech-Centric culture, they may look much different than most people expect. And the process of planning them will as well. But one things for sure – they will be sm…

Cloud and software-defined technologies continue to reshape traditional data centers.  Companies turning to cloud to deliver consistent services and processes have found that they can deliver elastic, safe and flexible services at the speed and expectations of their customers.  They have also discov…

Some of our largest enterprise customers are deploying the next-generation of data center networking.  They are delivering automation and intelligence with programmable hardware and software – deployed with application centric models that work best for their workloads.  Their IT leaders have focused…

I don’t know about you, but everyone seems to be talking analytics – it is another great digital transformation buzzword. Most of the time in financial services, analytics means customer analytics – how we can combine structured data within the bank with the world of big data to give us amazingly ne…

Written by Mehdi Nikkhah, Software Engineer, Cisco Innovation Labs Service providers are going through a massive network transformation. Increasing demands from new services, in respect to user experience as well as connecting millions of things every year or month as well as creating new value and…