Author Archives: Jack Norris
An article I read on ReadWrite Enterprise, “One Hadoop to Rule Them All” offers a take on the exploding Hadoop market. It mentions the entrance of relative newcomers such as EMC, IBM, and Intel which just reinforces the burgeoning enterprise … Continue reading
Expanding Big Data solutions to yet another level, MapR made two announcements today: MapR M7, which provides an enterprise-grade NoSQL and Hadoop solution to our customers, is now available; and LucidWorks Search will be distributed with the MapR Platform for … Continue reading
Demand for both Apache Hadoop and NoSQL is extremely strong and this can mean only one thing: companies are hiring, and there is stiff competition for employees with experience in these technologies. This was brought home last month in an … Continue reading
MapR made two significant announcements today regarding our efforts to support the Hadoop ecosystem and provide an open enterprise-grade platform to Big Data users. First, MapR is partnering with Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, to package and … Continue reading
MapR secured $30 million in series C financing to accelerate global expansion and continue our segment-leading product development. Mayfield Fund, which led the funding round, joins our existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures in this round, bringing … Continue reading
In case you missed it, Forbes recently ran an interesting piece about Hadoop titled Can Hadoop Survive its Weird Beginning? It is worth a read for anyone in the Big Data/Hadoop space. In it, author Dan Woods makes a couple … Continue reading
MapR and Google will be conducting a workshop on best practices for Leveraging Big Data in the Cloud, taking place Tuesday, Oct 23 in New York City. This is a great opportunity to learn how you can get the most … Continue reading
It’s been a couple of days since the kickoff meeting of the Apache Drill User Group. We are very encouraged and excited by the initial response and it bodes well for the future success of the Drill project. On Thursday, … Continue reading
In a new briefing, the 451 Group details MapR’s exciting past few months. MapR has continued to strive to expand our product to meet our customers needs in wherever computing environment they may have – in the cloud, on-premise or … Continue reading
Today marks one of the biggest announcements in the history of Hadoop. Google — the pioneer of MapReduce, the company that ushered in the era of Big Data — has now opened up their infrastructure so organizations can more effectively … Continue reading