What's your winning combo for big data and analytics? This may come as a surprise to you -but given that the Superbowl is approaching -I am going to use a football analogy. As we get ready for the game in 2 weeks, we have a tale of two quarterbacks. One is an established quarter back with a long-standing history of victories. The other -new, up and coming-brings a ton of enthusiasm and fresh legs to the game.

This is like the analytics market place of today. We have established players like SAP, SAS, and IBM and new ones such as Splunk, Platfora, and ParStream (now part of Cisco). On this 10^thbirthday of Hadoop, we have established technology approaches from Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR using MapReduce being challenged by the new player to the game -Spark, which is starting to score big in the technology field. The big 3 are taking different approaches to this, which should make it fun to watch.

Ok, guess how Cisco UCS ties into all of this? The foundation under all of these players is a solid integrated infrastructure that enables the game to be played and won. And like Levi's stadium, UCS is the state of the art infrastructure with all of the most essential bells and whistles (Yes, I'm talking about service profiles for policy execution and management and ACI for business-relevant software defined networking (SDN)). Because in football and in business, it's important to go ALL THE WAY, you can rely on Cisco's end-to-end solutions to make this happen.

Trying to figure out the winning combination for your team? I pulled together a 'scouting report' to help you put together your ideal fantasy team. Bookmark this, because this is where you can find the latest and greatest and how each player partners with Cisco to bring you insights to action.

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Oh wait, you are from Europe? You don't actually watch American football? Come to Cisco Live Berlin and we can work on our European football analogy.

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