With enough hype to rival even the most popular of Superbowl's, Big Data experts will converge on New York City in just a couple weeks!  But big data has good reason for all the hype as businesses continue to find new ways to leverage the insights derived from vast data pools that are continuing to grow at an exponential rate.  A big reason for this is the ability to leverage Hadoop with the Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce functionality to analyze the data very quickly and provide incredibly fast queries that, although not even possible previously, can now be accomplished in minutes or less.  We've only just begun to scratch the surface in terms of the financial returns made around Hadoop and the infrastructure to support Hadoop deployments but one thing we do know, it's going to be big and it will continue to get bigger!

So how does Cisco fit into this picture?

Cisco is partnering with leading software providers to offer a comprehensive infrastructure and management solution to support customer big data initiatives including Hadoop, NoSQL and Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) analytics.  Leveraging the advantages of fabric computing, the Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA) delivers exceptional performance, capacity, management simplicity, and scale to help customers derive value more quickly and with less management overhead for the most challenging big data deployments.

Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture for big data enables rapid deployment, predictable performance, and massive scale without the need for complex layers of switching infrastructure.  In addition, the architecture offers unique data and management integration with enterprise applications hosted on Cisco UCS.  This allows big data and enterprise applications to co-exist within a single management domain that simplifies data movement between applications and eliminates the need for unique technology silos in the data center.  You can also check out my previous blog, Top Three Reasons Why Cisco UCS is a Better Platform for Big Data, to get an idea of what we'll be sharing at the show.

Have you considered Cisco UCS for your Big Data projects?   I'd like to invite you to come and hear more in a couple weeks at Strata Hadoop World in New York City.    We'll have a number of demos and experts on hand to answer all of your questions.

In addition, Cisco and  Cloudera are teaming up to offer you a chance to win some exciting prizes by joining our demo crawl program.  Stop by either the Cisco booth (#3) or the Cloudera booth (#403) to learn more.

Stop by and say hello and let me know if you have any comments or questions, or via twitter at @CicconeScott.