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Why Informed Decisions with Analytics are Key to Sporting and Business Success
The sporting achievements of top athletes often appear effortless, with each goal on target, photo finish or unstoppable ace seeming like a celebration of their natural talent. Yet in reality, these individual triumphs are the culmination of not only an intensive training regime, but detailed data a…
AQA: A Faster Way to Index, Search, and Retrieve Large Volumes of Application Data
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…
Cisco Kinetic Unlocks the Power of Your IoT Data
On Tuesday we announced Cisco Kinetic, a first-of-its kind IoT operations platform designed to unlock the power of data from the billions of connected devices being added to the network. In recent years, companies across the globe have embraced the idea of a hyper-connected, digital world. Now I’m s…
Cisco UCS Spelunking. Exploring Cisco’s Splunk Community and Other News Bits
Splunk is one of our key Cisco UCS ISV Partners in the area of data and analytics for the Data Center. Big Data as we all know throws off tons of structured and unstructured data and the ability to discover its meaning and therefore value requires good analytics capabilities. This is where S…
When It Comes To Protecting Data, Cisco Services Goes All-In
Yes, it’s official! Cisco successfully completed the ISO 27001 Certification across our entire services business worldwide. This important certification reinforces our commitment to protecting Cisco and our customers. With Cisco as a trusted partner, customers can be confident that every possible sa…
Tis the Season to Secure Your Devices (and Things)
Today, global headlines are focused on alleged government-led breaches of U.S. political parties. But the threat of nefarious online activity goes beyond the email and communications of elected officials. The large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack that flooded the servers of Do…
Top 5 Security Threats for Retailers in the Digital Age
As we enter Cybersecurity Awareness month, it’s an appropriate time to closely examine the specific security threats that retailers and hospitality providers face each and every day. In these industries, the overall “attack surface” is becoming dramatically more complex and hackers are more sophisti…
MineXpo Shows No Turning Back for Digital Mining
I just got back from MineXpo in Las Vegas and had the pleasure to speak with both our partners and customers in this exciting market. The conference is very unique because it is only held every four years and to me this is telling of the industry. Not that the industry doesn’t change, but that chang…
#CiscoChat Recap: How To Guard Your Manufacturing Data
Over the last several years, the manufacturing industry has consistently fallen victim to the attacks of increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Recent reports indicate that: In order for manufacturers to stay economically viable and protect brand reputation and worker safety, it’s critical that…