Smart cities / Cisco's smart pipes plus Teradata's scary-smart tech

Cisco's plumbing will soon feed Teradata's brains, according to last week's announcement. That's a no-brainer of a partnership, since everyone knows that Cisco's good at data plumbing and Teradata's good at data analytics. But the news release lets the interesting part go unexplained.

To get a glimpse, you have to do look at Teradata's newish Customer Jo…