Hadoop

Guest Bloggers: Siva Sivakumar, Senior Director, UCS Solutions, Computing Systems Product Group, Cisco Karthik Kulkarni, Architect – Big Data Solutions, Computing Systems Product Group, Cisco   In today’s digital world where sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, social media, and online tr…

If data is the new oil, there is one major difference.  Unlike oil, which over the years have suffered from unpredictable supply, for much of the customers, there is only abundance of data.  Despite the glut of data, the same customers profess there is often a shortage of actionable information.  In…

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…

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…

Welcome to Cisco Live Berlin!  Today, I want to introduce the industry’s first comprehensive edge-to-enterprise analytics solution in partnership with SAS. In my earlier blog, I discussed the promise of connecting the unconnected. Here I will be talking about how to make this a meaningful real…

There’s a line in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice says “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Some days I feel that way about my storage infrastructures as well. I fell down a particular rabbit-hole into storage management accidentally…

Earlier this month we introduced our new Cisco UCS S-Series Storage Servers, with the S3260 being first in market. The S Series is a new storage-optimized server category in the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS) portfolio designed specifically to address the needs of data intensive workloads suc…

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…

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