BigData
Top 5 Smart City Predictions: AI and the Birth of Self-Aware Cities
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…
Data Unstored: The Story Behind the S-Series … and Workloads
What does Data Unstored mean? It begins with connecting the unconnected. That the world is undergoing digital transformation is without question. Billions of devices are connected to the internet, and billions more will be connected by 2020. Over three and a half billion people have internet acces…
Digital transformation, Big Data and Hadoop …
There is no better venue than Strata + Hadoop 2016 to talk about digital transformation, big data and Hadoop. Let me start with the Internet of Everything which represents a global market transition driven by a surge in connections among people, processes, data and things. The Internet of Things is…
Bringing the Benefits of Big Data to Businesses
As our world becomes more connected, we have access to an increasing volume of data. This is exciting for organizations of all types. For example, retailers can begin to correlate customer data across multiple sources to identity shopping patterns. Utility companies can track usage throughout region…
Beyond Hadoop-as-a-Service: The Opportunity for Big-Data-as-a-Service
I’ve written in the past about the opportunity for Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) – providing self-service provisioning, elastic scaling, and support for multi-tenancy. But in my discussions with customers over the past year, it’s become clear that the opportunity is even bigger than Hadoop. The next bi…
Forrester names Cisco UCS a Leader
Recognition for Cisco UCS continues! Forrester Research recently positioned Cisco as a “Leader” in their report: The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop-Optimized Systems, Q2 2016. Built on innovation, designed for business acceleration, and engineered with scale and performance in mind, our Cisco UCS…
It’s all about analytics! 4th Generation of Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for Big Data
It’s all about analytics! From data, to insight, and then action. Analytics, along with Internet of Things, represent the foundation of Digital Transformation that is changing businesses, industries, and lives globally. Fundamental to this transformation is ‘integrated’, ‘software…
Cisco and Splunk Drive Operational Intelligence at Enterprise Scale
Guest Blog from Friea Berg, Global Strategic Alliances, Splunk As a member of the Splunk Global Strategic Alliances organization, Friea Berg is responsible for Splunk’s overall Cisco partnership. She leads a cross-functional team driving core technology alignment, solution development, GTM ini…
Cisco and Platfora Delivering on the Promise of Enterprise Scale Analytics
Analytics will continue to take center stage as the volume of data generated by embedded systems increases and vast pools of structured and unstructured data within and outside the enterprise are analyzed. — Gartner Big Data will continue to be important, but it’s critical to first understan…
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