Big Data

In the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, we witnessed the stunning and unexpected defeat of a methodology in addition to a candidate: poll-based election predictions. November 8, 2016 was a spectacular failure of poll-based predictions, fast on the heels of the spectacular failure of the poll-based p…

Digital transformation is changing the landscape of business today and no company, regardless of industry, size, or location is immune from the pressure of these rapid changes. iframes are not supported by your browser. When I speak with customers, they understand the need to transform, however one…

I frequently meet with customers who are trying to “unstore” more of their data, use it in real time, and unlock the latent value that’s contained there. In many ways this is the heart of digital transformation…but it’s also something that’s historically been a challenge to do in an economical and m…

Another Halloween is upon us, and jack o’lanterns, ghosts, and diabolical clowns are springing up everywhere. October is also National Cybersecurity Month—another reminder that the world can be a frightening place, with sophisticated new attacks on a regular basis.…

Running an efficient, secure data center today is a bit like running an obstacle course in the dark. Except, on this course, someone keeps moving the obstacles and adding more track. In any given moment, we really can’t know for sure what’s going on in the data center. SDN, virtualization, container…

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…

As digitization is being embraced by companies, communities, cities, organizations large and small, it is critical to assess and address the challenges that exist. Challenges that can become show-stoppers for the internet of things (IoT), challenges that could diminish the promise of big data, chall…

  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…

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…