Cisco Connect 2014 will revolve around new technologies that will make the Internet of all things possible

Under the motto 'Internet of Everything', Cisco Connect 2014, that will take place next 8 May in Madrid, will show how the billions of connections between people, processes, data and objects are transforming the lives of citizens, as well as the benefits it generates for companies, countries and society. It will also highlight the technologies that support IoE: cloud, mobility, collaboration, SDN (Software Defined Networks), Internet of Things, security and big data.

Cisco, next to Intel as a sponsor Iridium, and its main partners and strategic allies will celebrate next Thursday 8 May in Madrid Cisco Connect 2014, an event that will highlight how the Internet of all things is impacting (Internet of Everything – IoE) in society, in citizens and in businesses, and the technologies that support it will be shown: cloud, mobility, collaboration, SDN (Software Defined Networks), Internet of Things, security and big data.

In its sixth edition and with the motto 'Internet of Everything', Cisco Connect 2014 will show how the billions of connections between people, processes, data and objects are transforming the lives of citizens, and how it is generating benefits for companies, countries and society. “In the long term, what we want is to become one of the fundamental agents of the transformation that is going to occur in the market.”, But this cannot be done by a single company but rather we must work within an ecosystem. And this is what we want to highlight with our event”, comments José Manuel Petisco, general director of Cisco Spain.

Cisco Connect 2014 will offer a complete technical and business program. The first will have 20 demonstrations divided into three areas: Internet of Everything, with sessions on FOG Computing and IPV6; a business center, where attendees can check the benefits of the video, virtual desktops and Bring Your Own Device; and a third area with demonstrations on collaboration, data center/virtualization, enterprise networking and security, including the latest technologies added to the Cisco portfolio from the acquisition of Meraki and Sourcefire.

The business program will address the new opportunities offered by the Internet of Everything. También se mostrará cómo las redes empresariales se están transformando con herramientas de auto-gestión que permiten priorizar las aplicaciones críticas de negocio y se analizará la nueva era de múltiples clouds, donde la clave es la interconexión entre nubes y el acceso a los recursos de forma transparente y dinámica.

Durante la sesión plenaria intervendrá Ileana Rivera, directora senior de TI para Latinoamérica de Cisco, mientras que José Manuel Petisco, general director of Cisco Spain, y Antonio Conde, director de Colaboración de Cisco España, realizarán una demostración sobre la aplicación práctica del IoE en el sector vinícola. Jorge Lang ofrecerá la ponencia “La economía del dato”, and the rest of the sessions will be taught by BT speakers, Citrix, EMC, IBM, Microsoft y NetApp. Ono will also participate in this edition.

Cisco Connect 2014 It will also have an exhibition area where demonstrations will be offered that will be carried out by Cisco and different partners such as Auntia, adequate grounds, Azlan-Tech Data, Comstor, Dimension Data, Hit it, Impala, Ingram Micro, Sothis y VMware.

They will also be present in the exhibition area with their Av@anza solutions, Avnet, CommScope, Ermestel, Fluke Networks, Global Knowledge, IPM, Jabra, Look Telecommunications, Nexica, SCC, Tecnocom and Unitronics. The AEIT (Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineers), he COIT (Official College of Telecommunications Engineers), Audi, Barbadillo Wineries, ITH (Hotel Technological Institute) and Aerobic Mode will participate as collaborators.

Besides, The selected projects will be presented at the Cisco Spain Challenge, program designed to help students or professionals convert their business idea into a business project related to the IoE.

a business of 14,5 billions of euros

The Internet of Everything is opening new business opportunities for both the public and private sectors.. “Cisco sees a business opportunity of about 14,5 billions of euros worldwide 2022. The rules of the game have changed and so that the agents involved can take advantage of the advantages offered by the IoE, Companies and Administrations must act quickly and adopt a simpler IT model, smart and safe. “Cisco Connect will show all the keys to help organizations join this next industrial revolution”, explains José Manuel Petisco.

Regarding Spain, Petisco assures that “in our country we could be talking about a business opportunity for 106.000 million dollars. And proof of what the Internet of all things can offer a large city is what is being done in Barcelona and its application of the Smart City concept.”.

Organizations that take advantage of the IoE to convert data from connections into useful information will be able to reduce costs and optimize processes, as well as generate profits by offering new products and services and optimized experiences for customers.

Cisco has been evolving at the same time as the Internet has, reaching the current moment “in which we find ourselves in the so-called Internet of Everything phase (IoE) which is characterized by the billions of connections between people, processes, data and objects, capable of generating enormous opportunities for progress for companies, countries and society, continues explaining the general director of Cisco Spain.

According to IDC, this year there will be more than 17 million wearable devices on the market and close to 10.000 millions of computers connected to the Internet “which means that there are more devices than people. Besides, The forecasts indicate that in 2020 This figure will grow to 50.000. With regard to Spain, it is expected that in 2017 the average is 3,8 devices connected to the Internet per inhabitant”.

Intelligence and security

For Intel, The key to this connected world is found in the person “in focusing on the individual without losing sight of the collective.”. Customized solutions must be developed for the group. We are heading towards a society that will be able to predict things since it will have historical data. This is another of the fundamental elements of this intelligent world, the anticipation”, Jorge Lang clarifies, Director of Innovation and Solutions at Intel Corporation for the Southern Europe Region.

As an Iridium Sponsor of Cisco Connect 2014, Intel has a complete proposal designed to facilitate the convergence of the growing number of connected devices, including wearable devices, cloud computing and analytics based on Big Data.

“Intel is providing devices with greater intelligence and security, connecting them to the Internet cloud and facilitating the analysis of data in real time through Big Bata and its transformation into information with enormous value for all types of sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transport or retail”, pointed out Jorge Lang.

For this, Intel offers a comprehensive portfolio of hardware and software solutions, ranging from intelligent gateways and energy-efficient Intel Quark.