A new partnership between MapR Technologies and Deloitte Consulting aims to jointly deliver modernized services in the areas of artificial intelligence, internet of things, analytics, big data and cloud. MapR said Tuesday that its MapR Data Platform would provide the partnership with data processing services to help customers mitigate risks …
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MapR Recognized for Converged Big Data Platform; Doug Natal Comments
MapR Technologies has been recognized by two publications for the company’s converged data platform that works to help enterprise customers process, manage and secure large volumes of data. The company said Thursday it received Datanami’s “Best Big Data Product or Technology” award in the internet-of-things category and landed a spot …
Read More »MapR, C3 IoT Forge Internet of Things, AI-Based App Development Partnership
MapR Technologies and C3 IoT have formed an alliance to build an end-to-end platform designed to facilitate the development and deployment of applications based on internet of things and artificial intelligence. The companies will collaborate on go-to-market programs and technology development efforts to accelerate the roll out of applications that …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: Interview with Ted Dunning, Chief Application Architect at MapR Technologies
“Act locally but learn globally.” EM: Tell me about your background and how your experience influenced where you are today at MapR. Ted Dunning: My background is non-traditional in many ways. I started in electrical engineering originally but along the way I took time out of school to help …
Read More »Jim Kowalski Joins MapR Technologies as Chief Revenue Officer; Matt Mills Comments
Jim Kowalski, formerly an enterprise organization lead at Marketo, has joined converged data platform provider MapR Technologies Inc. as chief revenue officer. MapR said Nov. 16 that he will be responsible for the company’s global go-to-market team that includes sales and sales engineering functions. “Jim’s focus is on accelerating our top-line revenue …
Read More »MapR Creates Federal Advisory Board to Aid Govt Clients in IT Modernization Efforts
San Jose, California-based converged data platform developer MapR Technologies has established a federal advisory board that aims to help familiarize U.S. government customers with big data management technologies. MapR said Wednesday the advisory board comprises former government leaders who previously worked at the Defense Department, intelligence community and federal civilian agencies and have knowledge of various issues that affect the government’s information …
Read More »Macquarie Telecom Adopts MapR Cloud-Based Data Analytics Platform; Justin Bock Comments
Macquarie Telecom has implemented a MapR Technologies cloud-based data platform in Australia in an effort to help government agencies there protect online communications from potential cyber attacks. MapR Distribution works to analyze big data workloads in hybrid cloud environments and detect network vulnerabilities through the Apache Hadoop software framework, MapR said Tuesday. Apache …
Read More »Study: NoSQL, MapReduce Platforms to Help Drive Govt and Defense Big Data Market
A Research and Markets report forecasts that big data in government and defense market will grow 30 percent year-over-year through 2020. The research firm said Tuesday the growth will be driven by the emergence of data management technologies such as NoSQL database and Hadoop MapReduce platforms. The government and defense industry accounts for approximately …
Read More »MapR, Microsoft to Offer Hadoop On-Demand Via Azure Cloud
Microsoft and MapR Technologies are planning to deliver MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop via Azure‘s cloud services and integrate MapR Distribution with Azure Data Lake. MapR said Wednesday the partnership aims to provide Hadoop to clients on demand and enable additional capacity for storage and analytics. Azure customers will also have access to the MapR-DB NoSQL database …
Read More »MapR Wins Cisco Partner Award; Steve Fitz Comments
MapR Technologies has won a Cisco Partner Summit Global award in recognition of its corporate practices, sales strategies and business outcome-driven platforms. The company received the 2015 Solution Innovation Partner of the Year at Cisco’s partner conference held from April 27-30 in Montreal, MapR said Tuesday. “This award is a …
Read More »MapR’s Ted Dunning Outlines New Role for Apache Software Foundation Incubator Project
Ted Dunning, chief application architect at MapR Technologies, has taken the additional role of vice president for the Apache Software Foundation Incubator Project, which supports the development of new software projects. In an interview published Thursday on the MapR blog, Dunning told Michele Nemschoff that the incubator project works to familiarize contributors …
Read More »Information Builders, MapR Technologies Partner on BI, Hadoop Distribution Services
Information Builders has entered into an alliance with MapR Technologies to provide enterprise customers with a combination of the former’s business intelligence and analytics software and MapR’s Apache Hadoop distribution platform. The companies said Wednesday the partnership works to manage data integrity to generate insights from “impactful” analytics. Gerald Cohen, president and CEO …
Read More »MapR, Teradata to Host Big Data Everywhere Conference
MapR Technologies and Teradata will host a one-day conference May 12 in Tysons Corner, Va. to discuss the Hadoop platform and its surrounding technologies. The “Big Data Everywhere” conference will bring users and developers together to share their experience via technical sessions and user success stories. Industry leaders will also exchange Hadoop knowledge, share best …
Read More »MapR Hadoop Training Program Seeks to Build Up Federal Contractor IT Workforce Skills
A new free training program from MapR Technologies launched in January for information technology administrators, developers and data analysts to obtain certifications for data distribution platform Apache Hadoop. This program aims to help alleviate a skills shortage in the federal contracting arena, a public sector leader at MapR says. Tom White, a senior …
Read More »Dave Lessa Appointed Software Director for Business Dev’t at Red River
Dave Lessa, former client executive for the Department of Veterans Affairs at VMware, has joined Red River as software director for business development, FedHealthIT reported Friday.
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