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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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.  

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

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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