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Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) introduces cloud-based remote education platform in India

Today, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) unveiled the Cisco Education Enabled Development (CEED 2700) solution in India. This collaborative video interaction solution based on the cloud will allow efficient delivery of skills and educational development courses in the country, helping comprehensive growth and empowering rural India. The product is Codenamed “Dwara”, which is the first of Cisco (CSCO)’s ‘Internet of Everything’ solutions from India. This solution will help in connecting the unconnected and will allow large rural communities to access master trainers and proficient teachers. Such kind of training is almost impossible in areas outside urban institutes. CEED is the second product to be introduced from Cisco’s India site with the aim of driving innovation from India to other parts of the Globe. The company is accomplishing its goal to help transform education for the poor by reducing the cost of technology in education to approx. $1 for each child each month. President of Inclusive Growth at Cisco, Aravind Sitaraman, said that CEED is the company’s first step to introduce inclusive growth in rural regions by utilizing the new technology at exceptionally low costs. It has the ability to transform skills and learning development in India and to fulfill its dream of becoming a developed country by 2050, he said. Sitaraman added that inclusive growth is critical for fast developing countries like India and Cisco is probably the first company to have a business division working on developing solutions and technologies to bring inclusive growth to under-served communities. He also said that the company is proud to have developed this product from its Indian site and at the same time understand its vision to decrease cost of technology in education to as low as $1 per child per month.

Cisco Solutions to Help Provide Timely Medical Care in Largest and Coldest Russian Region

MOSCOW – February 11, 2013 – Cisco today announced the deployment of a territorially distributed health care data center in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the largest region of the Russian Federation. Its territory (3.1 million square kilometers) is five times as large as France and eight times as large as Germany. Digitization of health care is vitally important for local medical service availability, resource optimization, and the efficiency of medical institutions. More than 40 percent of Yakutia's territory is located north of the Arctic Circle. The republic's health care system faces specific issues related to its large territory and extreme polar climate. Urgent medical aid in remote areas is usually delivered by air. The project implemented by Stabol, a Cisco® Premier Certified Partner in Russia, complies with the regional program "Modernization of Health Care in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in 2011-2012" by supporting the centralization and consistency of medical processes. Information technology will help to mitigate the problem of the remoteness of rural hospitals and accelerate delivery of skilled medical services. The deployed data center consists of 20 servers installed at two sites in the city of Yakutsk. The center is based on Cisco solutions, including the Cisco Nexus® 4001I and Cisco Nexus 5548UP switches, Cisco ASR 1006 routers, and Cisco Catalyst® 4507 switches. This architecture helps support various applications and operating systems in a single network, as well as providing scalability of installed solutions. Nexus switches ensure even better performance, along with lower operational costs and power consumption. New virtualization features embedded in Cisco Nexus help innovative services to be deployed with minimal risk to existing functionality. The data center uses converged network infrastructure based on Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Cisco ASR routers and Catalyst switches help ensure the high quality of received data and facilitate control over video sharing through real-time monitoring, fast troubleshooting and predeployment evaluation.

Cisco Systems Unveils New High-Speed Cloud Fabric Devices

This is all about hybrid clouds and software-defined networking, where much more of the intelligence in the system is housed in the networking software and hardware. First, it was servers connecting PCs to create the Internet. Then servers began being clustered and corralled to enable application-service providers, grid systems and clouds to connect with personal devices. Now, clouds themselves are interacting with each other. Having seen this progression coming for a long time, networking giant Cisco Systems on Feb. 5 introduced several new high-speed, cloud-to-cloud-capable network fabric devices designed to handle all that heavy-duty traffic in hybrid clouds. This is all about hybrid clouds and software-defined networking, where much more of the intelligence in the system is housed in the networking software and hardware, rather than in servers and storage controllers. Software-Defined Networks, Hybrid Clouds These new Cisco products include a high-density, 40G-bit Layer 2/3 fixed switch; new hybrid cloud management software; and new scale-out capabilities for the Cisco Open Network Environment platform, thanks to a new extensible controller. Specifically, this wave of data center hardware and software includes a handful of 40G-bit Nexus 6000 Series switches, Cisco Nexus 1000V InterCloud management software for connecting private enterprise and service-provider clouds, and a network-programmable controller as part of the expanded Cisco ONE portfolio. "These are primarily aimed at hybrid cloud deployments [because these are where most of the expansion currently is], but we also see these being used across to private clouds and to provider public clouds," David Yen, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Center Group, told eWEEK. "This allows the customer to maximize their productivity—not only from these resources they own, but from new resources they could bring. Unified Data Center Strategy The new product set is part of Cisco's Unified Data Center strategy, which it introduced along with the Unified Computing System back in March 2009. Along with partners EMC (storage), NetApp (storage), VMware (virtualization software), BMC, Microsoft, Intel and several others, Cisco came up with its own mostly preconfigured data center system for compute, storage and networking that it has been selling well in the last four years. Cisco's unified data center strategy features open networking, programmability and software-defined networking for all places in the network—including data center, campus, cloud and service- provider deployments. Key new products in Cisco's latest release include the following: Nexus 6000 Series: This is the industry's first 96-port, line-rate 40G-bit fixed-form-factor switch with Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and 1-microsecond latency across all ports. It interconnects via service modules with several other Cisco switches, such as the Nexus 7000 Series; it also has 40G-bit uplink extensions to its Nexus 5000 and 2000 product lines. It also runs Cisco's NX-OS with an integrated layer 2 and 3 feature set. The two new Nexus 6000 models are the Nexus 6004, a high-density switch with up to 96 ports of line-rate 40GE (384 ports of line-rate 10GE) in a compact 4 RU (rack unit) form factor; and the Nexus 6001, which offers line-rate 48 ports of GE/10GE fixed ports with 4 ports of 40GE (or 16 ports of 10GE) uplinks in 1 RU form factor. Nexus 7000 Series Network Analysis Module: This is Cisco's new frontline data center blade switch. The NAM brings application awareness and performance analytics to the Cisco Nexus 7000. Nexus 1000V InterCloud: his orchestrates control of hybrid clouds by extending corporate enterprise environments into the provider cloud. The Nexus 1000V InterCloud preserves existing networking capabilities and L4-7 services while bringing improved manageability of the enterprise into the provider cloud. The solution offers a choice of provider clouds and operates in a hypervisor-agnostic manner. Virtual Network Management Center InterCloud: This offers new capabilities, including a single policy point for network services across both enterprise and provider domains; the ability to manage virtual machine lifecycle across multiple hypervisors in an enterprise cloud; and the ability to manage multiple provider clouds via APIs. Cisco ONE Software Controller: This manages a highly available, scalable and extensible architecture. Cisco positions it as "the industry's first multiprotocol interface with One Platform Kit (onePK) and Openflow." In addition, the ONE Controller will interact with Cisco networking applications, such as Custom Forwarding and Network Tapping. Other new products and services include expanded platform support for Cisco's onePK developer environment with Nexus 3000, Nexus 7000 and ASR 9000; new packages for overlay networks, including Nexus 1000V support for VXLAN Gateway; Nexus 1000V support for Hyper-V and integration with Microsoft System Center VM Manager; a virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM) for network analysis and monitoring of virtualized and cloud workloads; and expanded platform support for OpenFlow with Nexus 3000, Nexus 7000, ASR 9000 and Catalyst 6500. These new products will be available by the second quarter, Yen said.

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Big Data and Jobs of the Future.

If you haven't noticed lately, there's been a tremendous explosion of societal-changing, technology-related advances taking place. It's hard to imagine life before the Web, but it's only been 15 years. Smartphone adoption? Less than 10 years. Facebook? Half that time. Tablets? Roughly, two years. It's no secret that mobile device proliferation and better network connectivity are key aspects of technology breakthroughs. But just as the division between work and leisure time has started to blend the line between personal and corporate information has grown thinner. This has added to an exponential increase in data. It's safe to say that the implications of Big Data play a part in almost every aspect of the latest technology innovations we enjoy today. In fact, this increase in information grows exponentially each year. The challenge with accruing large amounts of data is in the process: How do we put to use data that's beneficial—and eliminate information that's not? This is where new skillsets such as data analysis can play a significant role. Although Big Data represents an area where these abilities are in heavy demand, a host of other technologies have triggered a similar need. Cloud management. Mobile app development. Wireless networking. These are just some of the areas that are increasingly vital in the technological and economic marketplace of the 21st century. For example, the desire for instant video and multimedia access continues to grow at a ferocious pace, especially for handheld and mobile devices. Witness the rise of BYOD and unfettered mobile use nearly everywhere. Increasingly, mobile users view wireless connectivity as a right and a basic part of the infrastructure, not a bonus. Of course, speed is paramount. When it comes to wireless environments, quite a number of channels are available. But it's important to optimize for capacity, which requires a whole new skillset for better management and a more detailed understanding of how a network is being used. In the not-too-distant future, most of our devices, including buildings, cars, and home appliances will be wirelessly interconnected and will attempt to be more "helpful" to their owners. To that end, WiFi skills and certification represent a specialized area unique to the realm of networking that will only increase with demand. Today, the Mobile App Development arena is a little bit like the Wild West. While app development has truly exploded, the security needs, requirements and different approaches that both manufacturers and IT teams take remains to be ironed out. In the meantime, a huge demand exists for talented application developers who can build applications with robust security. To that end, CompTIA, the nonprofit industry trade association has teamed up with security firm, viaForensics, to certify a standardized approach to application development. The goal is to meet the needs of software application vendors as well as developers by offering an advanced, prescribed and comprehensive approach to app development. Pursuing this approach to certification can demonstrate your versatility and ensure that you stay ahead of the curve as the industry focuses on an effective standard. When it comes to cybersecurity, tomorrow's battles will consist of numerous vectors and origins with multiple vulnerabilities. However, tomorrow's conflicts are here today. Witness DDoS attacks on major multi-nationals, the Conficker and Stuxnet worms, and as yet unforeseen threats. Moreover, we live in a world of 24/7 business availability. While personal and corporate monetary loss is significant, so, too, is losing hours—or days—in transaction losses due to infected or compromised networks. Not to mention the hit to reputations and lost credibility. Today's cybersecurity challenge rests in enabling users and corporations to have increased capabilities and convenience, while also protecting privacy rights, commerce and national security. To that end, gaining skills in cybersecurity can make one indispensable. It's an area of specialization that has arrived and will only continue to grow. When it comes to the Cloud, most users don't think twice about storing content there and relying on essentially cloud-based services for communications, social networking and entertainment. However, as we move toward full Cloud dependence, it will require personnel with specialized management skills to maintain these environments and perform tasks, such as moving traditional datacenters to the Cloud. This trend, which is bound to increase, requires specialized skills related to gathering information on analytical data, architecture, networking and storage. Today, this complex process is usually done manually. Increasingly though, advanced skill levels, not to mention new certifications, will be necessary to handle the complexity of Cloud maintenance and data center migrations. Mobile device proliferation, Cloud connectivity, industrial sensors, the Internet of Everything—each of these leads to an increased flow in the amount of information to be processed. Taken together, they result in what's been termed the onset of Big Data. Increasingly, businesses are swamped with data they can't use and don't yet understand for which they spend substantial sums to data mine, collect and store. More importantly, a fast growing share of this data is continuously flowing across interconnected communication channels and needs to be analyzed in real-time even before it is stored. It requires systems, software, processing power and personnel to staff infrastructure and maintain the hardware and software. According to recent research by the global market research firm, IDC, the volume of digital content will grow to 2.7 zettabytes (ZB) in 2012, up 48 percent from 2011. As companies face this enormous amount of unstructured data, they require data analysts capable of gleaning useful information. Predictive analytics deals with the unstructured content of Big Data and requires skills in iterative analysis, including the ability to recognize subtle patterns and shifts in customer behaviors as well as expertise in modeling, visualization and using simulations. The real-time nature of this data in motion requires that the information is extracted before it vanishes almost as quickly as it is created. This presents opportunities for a host of data-savvy managers and staff as well as for those with trans-disciplinary abilities, such as programmers with math acumen and interpersonal skills. But again, specialization is key and capable data analysts require unique training. However, in an era of an increasing deluge of data questions remain: Are companies collecting the right data? Are they doing so in a manner that enables effective interpretation of that data to provide tangible benefits? Some remain uncertain as to whether analyzing numbers can tell us what we need to know about our economic world. They believe that quantifying decisions based on data may not be that effective, and suggest that human insight, astute observation and social interaction have been removed from the calculus of analysis.

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