Cisco Connect Greece 2014 was once again the most important Internet of Everything event in Greece. Approximately 1,700 executives from every industry, and every company department and level, had the opportunity to experience the modern technologies that set the course for a new working environment, create new business opportunities, and ultimately drive the transformation of society.

Cisco Connect topics ranged from deep-dive technical explorations to solving key business challenges. The event comprised keynote speeches, CEO and CIO discussion panels, business and technical parallel sessions, exhibition-demo area, interaction with customers, partners and key Cisco executives, as well as plenty of time for socialising and sharing experiences.

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Oren Seliger is a lucky guy, as he and his team are the first to lay hands on and evaluate, every new piece of infrastructure used today by the company - the same infrastructure that Cisco proposes to its customers, as well as its Intelligent Autonomous Cloud, the new generation network with lots of extra benefits offered today. He gives us an insider look to all and even more... Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central

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TTC #136 Being the first to evaluate infrastructure experience, Oren Seliger

Large scale and long running projects need a dedicated and well experienced partner in order to succeed. That’s the inner meaning of what Charalabos Kiorpelidis, Systems & IT Manager of Aegean Motorways, says as he describes the infrastructure built and managed by his team with Cisco’s help, for this key motorway to run smoothly… Unified access, voice/ telephony/video systems, automation and many toll stations, as well as supporting operations like ERP, CRM, etc. the combination is not easy to manage. Moreover, IoE is now entering the (motor)way, too.   Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central

TTC #137 IoE is hitting the Road, Charalabos Kiorpelidis

Projections of more than 50 billion connected devices and a market of at least 19 trillion dollars by 2020 are not regarded as hype, by Antonis Tsiboukis, General Manager of Cisco for Greece, Cyprus and Malta. On the contrary, he points out that Internet of Everything has already considerable presence even in Greece, citing examples from the health and transportation sectors. He says that #IoE may also create a large number of new jobs (many more than those lost) and adds that cities have to be “smart” in order to survive and Cisco along with its partners can help them in order to reach that goal. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central

TTC #134 IoE, a game changer that already works in Greece, Antonis Tsiboukis

Corporate networks become more intelligent but also more complicated driving increasingly demanding business needs. We talk with Nikos Botinis, Cisco Regional Sales Manager for Greece, Cyprus and Malta, about Cisco FastIT; the new App-centric  IT operating model which considerably reduces complexity and cost through a simpler, smarter and more secure IT infrastructure. Having Internet of Everything at its core, Fast IT provides a unifying framework to integrate major technology transitions - cloud, mobility, SDN, security and data analytics. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central

TTC #133 Cisco Fast IT: the future or IoE-centric corporate infrastructure, Nikos Botinis

Cloud processing, storage and distribution is driving many core operations, services and applications in the IT infrastructures of modern organizations. As a result, public and private cloud deployments are an essential and critical piece of the IT puzzle. We talk with Enrico Mercadante, Cloud and Technical Operation Leader, Cisco South Europe, about Intercloud Fabric: the worldwide network of interconnected clouds. Driven by Cisco and a growing number of partners, Intercloud enables the standardization of hybrid clouds which seamlessly combine public and private cloud deployments. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central. 


TTC #135 Intercloud: bridging public and private clouds, Enrico Mercadante

The blueprint of corporate IT has changed dramatically during the last few years due to the advent of technologies like the cloud, virtualization and Software as a Service. Jacint Juhasz, Systems Engineer, South Eastern Europe mentions the Storage Virtualization technologies that have been co-created by NetApp and Cisco and the FlexPod, the core product of the line, the key benefits and how storage virtualization affects the modern complicated corporate IT infrastructure. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.  

TTC #128 Storage Virtualization at the heart of modern IT infrastructure, Jacint Juhasz

Video is the next (if not the current...) big thing in the Web; nobody can deny that! Antony Blake, Cisco Video Acceleration Lead in the EMEAR region, tells us why, as his role is to deal with “technologies that bring video to life”. He also explains why we have to proceed with the humanization of video, he shares with us his joy for the Red Dot award, Cisco was recently honoured with, and finally he describes the all new Project in the Cloud platform that, in essence, is a meeting and collaboration room, up there...  Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central


TTC #132 Setting up a meeting room in the Cloud, Antony Blake

In the ever-changing world of ICT, cloud computing seems to be the winner (for the time being) and that means enterprises, organizations and even single users have to adapt themselves to this fact and make the necessary changes in their plans. Panagiotis Golemis,  Consulting Systems Engineer at Cisco, talks about Application as a Service platform and describes the benefits of the Application Centric Infrastructure model his company is preaching for. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central

TTC #130 A new model: Application Centric Infrastructure, Panagiotis Golemis

Natassa Mastellou, although very young in age, seems very passionate and knowledgeable in the truly ‘dark’ field of data analytics. Starting out as to how she landed in SAP Hellas and what an important opportunity the SAP graduate program was for her professional life; she continues to explain what solutions SAP offers for Big Data and how the different layers it offers, can help a business grow and make meaningful sense out of the data it collects. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks  Central

TTC #129 SAP Analytics to the rescue of Big Data, Natassa Mastellou

The new e-learning, video- and tele- conferencing technologies have been disrupting the education industry for the last few years. We talk with Emmanouil Zouraris, Video, Collaboration and e-Learning Technologies Manager, Networking & Communications Centre, University of Crete (UoC), about their large scale deployment of Cisco conferencing and telepresence technologies at the multi-site UoC network; the integration with the existing IP telephony infrastructure, the interoperability and maintenance benefits and some of the use-cases. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central   

TTC #131 Video, Tele-conferencing & Collaboration deployment, Emmanouil Zouraris

Internet of Things will bring new modes of interaction between devices and people. As intelligent electronics get embedded to items which are used outside offices and living rooms, there is a growing need to move beyond keyboards, screens and touch interfaces. Alexandros Christopoulos, Business Lead for Human Electric and Constantinos Tsolakidis, Tech Lead for Human Electric talk about their vision to build new user experiences for activities that cannot rely on traditional interfaces starting by their passion: cycling. A first prototype uses a combination of hardware; a jacket laden with indicators, tactile feedback mechanisms and connectivity with mobile phone and an accompanying mobile app to seamlessly augment the cycling experience with navigation, social and security features. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.  

TTC #125 Creating new modes of interaction between devices and people, Human Electric

Security has always been a very “hot” issue in ICT and Nikos Mourtzinos, Security Account Manager, for Cisco Greece, Cyprus & Malta, tells us how Cisco ASA, a next generation firewall, protects its users much better against the ever increasing threats. He also talks about the security issues we are (and will be) facing in the era of Internet of Everything and suggests possible ways and solutions to most effectively overcome them. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central

TTC #126 Better protection thanks to new Cisco firewall, Nikos Mourtzinos

In the ICT World (and not only…) market intelligence firms tend to provide a much better overview of a sector, than bits and pieces of information collected from the companies themselves. Emir Halilovic, Program Manager for Networks & Infrastructure at IDC, gives us precious information about Software Defined Network and the benefits it brings to data centres managers and users. He agrees that the market hasn’t taken off yet, but he reminds us that we are still in a transformation period. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central

TTC #127 We are still in a transformation period, Emir Halilovic

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