Our last but not least guest blog on "Why I Love Big Data Partner Series" is up! If you are on your way back home from Cisco Live, this would be a great read for your commute. Rob Rosen from Platfora will take us through how easy it is to uncover previously hidden threats with an integrated big data solution that dynamically analyzes large volumes of disparate security data from Cisco's security portfolio. If you missed Cisco Live this year, Rob also did a great job summarizing some of the key highlights.
Rob Rosen, Sr. Director Partner Solutions at Platfora, is responsible for developing Big Data solutions within Platfora's partner community including Cisco, Hadoop distribution providers and Platfora's growing channel partner team. Rob has worked in leadership capacities with technology leaders in the infrastructure and Big Data space including MapR Technologies, NetApp, Check Point Software and Sun Microsystems.
Highlights from Cisco Live: Top Insights from Platfora
It was a jam-packed week at Cisco Live and I had the opportunity to dive into the latest developments around big data analytics and security. It's well known that as IT infrastructure has transferred to virtual cloud-based applications and storage, organizations need visibility and security to keep their assets and data safe. I saw a lot of impressive presentations and I was able to share our own technology in partnership with Cisco.
Highlights from this week's conference:
Platfora's Chalk Talk on Security
With major data security breaches making big news over the past couple of years, powerful products like Intercloud will enable companies to adequately fight back. However, there are major challenges faced when trying to detect data breaches, and our "chalk talk" session revealed how Platfora has solved the problem for so many companies. Here are few highlights around what I shared at the session:
As Cisco's Intercloud grows, businesses are going to be able to use Platfora to pull data instantly from a huge number of applications. If you'd like to learn more details, I've written more about Platfora's security analytics solution in a recent blog post here.
The customer truly benefits from a joint Platfora and Cisco solution because UCS offers the best infrastructure for Platfora to satisfy its customer's needs. Platfora can offer timed insight and analytics to its customers when we have a scalable, high-performance infrastructure underneath us. UCS offers this infrastructural solution by enabling the storage of petabytes of data to meet Platfora's customer expectations. Secondly, Platfora is an in-memory technology allowing users to get access to data very quickly by using technologies like Apache Spark to take advantage of memory. UCS enables us to have access to all that memory because it scales vertically as well. Finally UCS offers our customers the opportunity to administer systems, scale-out easily, and maintain them.
Thanks to Cisco for hosting an amazing week of knowledge sharing and new technologies. I already can't wait for next year.