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The MapR Advantage Partner Program is a program for all partners that want to engage with MapR to jointly position our value to customers. The Program enables diverse organizations within the Hadoop community to expand their reach, ultimately helping customers leverage big data through MapR's enterprise grade distribution for Apache Hadoop.
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Concurrent, Inc. provides Enterprise class software that brings the power of parallel computing clusters to production data processing. The MapR distribution for Apache Hadoop has been certified compatible with Cascading and supported for production use by Concurrent's customers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For more information about Concurrent, Inc., please visit www.concurrentinc.com.

Datameer offers the first data analytics solution built on Hadoop that helps business users access, analyze and use massive amounts of data. Founded by Hadoop veterans in 2009, the company's breakthrough product, Datameer Analytics Solution (DAS), provides unparalleled access to data with minimal IT resources. DAS scales to 4,000 servers and petabytes of data and is available for all major Hadoop distributions. Datameer is based in San Mateo, Calif.

Hear Datameer and MapR demonstrate how organizations can transform social media data into point of sale purchases.

Karmasphere makes it easy for today's businesses to unlock the value of Big Data. Our core technology, the Karmasphere Application Framework makes it simple and efficient to leverage the power of Hadoop to analyze Big Data sets, right from the desktop.

The Karmasphere Application Framework is a robust foundation that enables a rich graphical interface for the development of Big Data applications. All Karmasphere products are built on the Karmasphere Application Framework to unlock the power of Hadoop with unparalleled ease.

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy's BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy's mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy's social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer friendly apps that use MicroStrategy's enterprise technologies. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit www.microstrategy.com

Revolution Analytics is the leading commercial provider of software and services based on the open source R project for statistical computing. The company brings high performance, productivity and enterprise readiness to R, the most powerful statistics language in the world. The company's flagship Revolution R Enterprise product is designed to meet the production needs of large organizations in industries such as finance, life sciences, retail, manufacturing and media. Used by over two million analysts in academia and at cutting-edge companies such as Google, Bank of America and Acxiom, R has emerged as the standard of innovation in statistical analysis. Revolution Analytics is committed to fostering the continued growth of the R community through sponsorship of the Inside-R.org community site, funding worldwide R user groups and offers free licenses of Revolution R Enterprise to everyone in academia.

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 55,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®

sqrrl, is the Big Data company focused on security, scalability, and adaptability for Big Data. sqrrl provides products for Apache Accumulo, and focuses on Big Data challenges both in terms of scale and analytic complexity where data constraints impact analytic outcomes.

MapR has also entered into a partnership with leading data warehouse and business intelligence platform vendor Tableau Software to ensure customers benefit from MapR's comprehensive data connection options. The MapR ODBC driver enables Tableau to quickly and easily access data stored in Hadoop. Customers can simply point Tableau to the MapR Distribution and instantly create reports, data visualizations and dashboards without any programming or coding.

Bpm-Conseil is the company behind the Vanilla project, the only true Open Source Bi Platform.

Canonical is the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu project and the leading provider of support services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise. Ubuntu is an open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing. Since its launch in 2004, it has become a natural choice for users of all kinds, from Fortune 500 companies to hardware makers, content providers, software developers and individual technologists. With developers, support staff and engineering centers all over the world, Canonical is uniquely positioned to help its partners and enterprise customers make the most of Ubuntu. It also operates Ubuntu One, a cross-platform personal cloud service for consumers. Canonical is a privately held company.

MapR Teams with Canonical to Deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu.

Dataguise delivers data privacy protection and risk assessment analytics that allow organizations to safely leverage and share enterprise data. Our solutions simplify governance as they proactively locate sensitive data, automatically protect it with appropriate remediation polices, and provide actionable compliance intelligence to decision makers, in real-time. In Hadoop deployments, our solutions inspect incoming data and protect it before it is stored. These capabilities simplify risk management, improve operational efficiencies, and reduce regulatory compliance costs.

Hear how Dataguise and MapR Protect Sensitive Data in Your Multi-Tenant Environment

Digital Reasoning develops technologies that solve the problem of information overload by providing the tools people need to read, understand, and make use of vast amounts of data.

Lucid Imagination is the commercial company exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source enterprise search technology. It provides search solution development platforms built on the power of Lucene/Solr open source search via enterprise-grade subscriptions. The company's LucidWorks Search Platform, "the UI for Big Data", makes the power of Solr/Lucene open source search more accessible to the broad range of application developers and slashes the learning curve for search solution development.

Hear how MapR and LucidWorks together provide deeper behavioral insights from Big Data.

Read how LucidWorks and MapR work together so organizations can get started using reflected intelligence in their search applications.

Narus, an independent subsidiary of The Boeing Company, provides powerful cybersecurity and surveillance software, giving our customers unprecedented insight into their network through innovative big data analysis. http://www.narus.com/

Nimbula, the cloud operating system company, delivers a new class of cloud infrastructure software enabling enterprises and service providers to build private, public or hybrid clouds. Nimbula Director, Nimbula's flagship product, is scalable, highly automated, secure, easy to use and provides complete control over your cloud. Nimbula was founded by the team that developed the industry-leading Amazon EC2 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information visit nimbula.com.

Whether it's automating routine tasks or solving your toughest IT challenges, Quest's award-winning products deliver rapid value and simplify the management of IT across physical, virtual and cloud environments. And that means less chaos and stress for you, plus big cost-savings for your organization.

RainStor provides Big Data management software. RainStor's database enables the world's largest companies to keep and access limitless amounts of data for as long as they want at the lowest cost. It features the highest level of compression on the market, together with high performance on-demand query and simplified management. Combining MapR's unprecedented dependability, speed and ease-of-use Hadoop capabilities with RainStor's database running natively on the Hadoop cluster, enterprises can quickly harness the power of Hadoop for multi-structured data analysis - at lower cost. http://rainstor.com/technology/hadoop/

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

Revelytix is a commercial software company providing tools for enterprise information management. The founders and engineering team have been together for 14 years, eight at Metamatrix (sold to Red Hat in 2006) and six years at Revelytix. For the first few years at Revelytix we built complex data management software for the Department of Defense. With the emergence of Hadoop, we have ported some of our core technology to that platform, in a product called Loom. Loom provides dataset management for Hadoop, making data scientists and other Hadoop users more productive. We are innovating strongly in the Hadoop space now, delivering value and immediate ROI to enterprises adopting Hadoop as a data processing platform.

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 197,000 customers (includes customers from the acquisition of SuccessFactors) to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

Our mission is to make the task of managing Big Infrastructure easy. StackIQ offers a comprehensive software suite that automates the provisioning and management of big infrastructure. With Rocks+, you can spin up large, fully configured MapR clusters, quickly and consistently from bare-metal up to the applications layer. Its modular architecture allows customers to integrate nearly any application with the StackIQ software stack.

Hear how the StackIQ and MapR partnership enables customers to reduce the time from provisioning to production.

Read how deploying Big Data with MapR and StackIQ provides a simplified, automated solution for enterprise Hadoop.

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

The MapR Distribution for Hadoop is an option within the Amazon Elastic MapReduce service. Customers can provision dynamically scalable MapR clusters while taking advantage of the flexibility, agility and massive scalability of Amazon Web Services (AWS). In addition, AWS has made its own Hadoop enhancements available to MapR customers, allowing them to seamlessly use MapR with other AWS offerings such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon CloudWatch.

Learn how organizations are unlocking the power of their data by running Hadoop in the Amazon cloud with MapR and Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

The combination of the Google service and the MapR distribution for Hadoop enables customers to quickly provision large MapR clusters on demand and take advantage of the flexibility, agility and scalability of a cloud-based solution.

Google pioneered MapReduce for their internal search framework, which inspired thecommunity development of Hadoop. Now, through MapR's distribution for Hadoop, organizations are able to benefit from Google's highly available, dependable, and scalable infrastructure for Big Data analytics.

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HP Cloud Services is providing public cloud infrastructure services for organizations of all sizes. Designed with OpenStack™ technology at the core, HP’s open, transparent architecture ensures no vendor lock-in, improves developer productivity, features easy-to-use tools for faster time to code, provides access to a rich partner ecosystem, and is backed by exceptional customer support. HP’s initial offering includes on-demand compute instances or virtual machines, scalable online storage capacity and accelerated delivery of cached content to end users. HP’s full suite of public cloud services will enable the next generation of web services to be built, run and scale on a global basis backed with a broad marketplace of analytics, tools and services. HP’s cloud supports customers with a differentiated hybrid delivery model, providing interoperability and portability across public, private and managed clouds. For additional information visit hpcloud.com.

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica for maximizing return on data to drive their top business imperatives. Worldwide, nearly 5,000 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. By using MapR and Informatica together, companies can execute high performance replication and messaging streams into MapR, move many terabytes per hour, parse and process a broad range of structured and unstructured data natively in Hadoop, and archive data all without coding.

With the invention of data warehouse appliances, Netezza, an IBM Company, revolutionized and simplified analytics for companies drowning in data and struggling to find the processing speed and power to analyze and understand what it all meant. Today, Netezza is the data warehouse appliance leader, combining storage, processing, database and analytics into a single system that delivers 10-100x the performance, at one third the cost of other approaches. We are once again resetting the bar on price/performance.

Pentaho is delivering the future of business analytics. Pentaho's open source heritage drives our continued innovation in a modern, integrated, embeddable platform built for the future of analytics, including diverse and big data requirements. Powerful business analytics are made easy with Pentaho's cost-effective suite for data access, visualization, integration, analysis and mining. For a free evaluation, download Pentaho Business Analytics at www.pentaho.com/get-started.

Syncsort helps organizations across the globe to rethink the economics of data with the world's most Extreme Data Performance solutions. From powerful data protection software to the fastest, most resource-efficient data integration software, experience extreme with Syncsort. www.syncsort.com

Talend is the recognized leader in open source integration solutions, providing a holistic integration platform that addresses data, application and process integration through a unified technology stack and supports organizations in their shift toward the Cloud and Big Data.

Talend offers open, innovative and powerful solutions, used primarily for operational data integration, ETL, data profiling & cleansing, MDM, application integration and BPM.

Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) is the world's leading analytic data solutions company, focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. Teradata's innovative products and services deliver data integration and business insight to empower organizations to make the best decisions possible for competitive advantage. Visit teradata.com for details.

Big Data Partnership is the leading EMEA-based big data specialist solution provider offering a combination of Professional Services and Training. We help enterprise clients extract valuable insight from complex data. With a team of industry experts and thought leaders in big data technologies including the Apache Hadoop ecosystem and NoSQL databases, Big Data Partnership has the knowledge and experience needed to Discover, Develop & Deliver scalable and reliable big data solutions driving exciting results for our customers. For more information, visit www.bigdatapartnership.com.

Booz Allen Hamilton is a leading provider of management and technology consulting services to the U.S. government in defense, intelligence, and civil markets, and to major corporations, institutions, and not-for-profit organizations. Booz Allen is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, employs more than 25,000 people, and had revenue of $5.59 billion for the 12 months ended March 31, 2011 (NYSE: BAH).

With offices in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, cimt AG offers global support for your challenges by providing IT consulting according to your specific needs and requirements. This is achieved by using established standards as well as cutting-edge tools and technologies. Using an internal network of qualified experts, cimt AG continuously distributes know-how throughout the company. Let’s work together and you will benefit from this as well.

Visit us at www.cimt-ag.com for more information.

comSysto is a Munich (Germany) - based software company specialised in lean business and technology development. While supporting all three steps of a well known Build-Measure-Learn lean feedback loop, comSysto focuses on open source frameworks and software as major enablers of short, agile Build-Measure-Learn iterations and fast gains in validated learning. Powerful Hadoop technology provides the needed flexibility and agility for turning ideas into products as well as performance for handling Big Data while turning data into knowledge.

Data Tactics Corporation is focused on the unique problems of data management facing the intelligence community. From tactical to strategic efforts, our team has led the creation, integration and implementation of innovative and proven solutions in the world of data alignment and intelligence analytics.

We are a new-breed technology services provider focused on delivering innovative software solutions by leveraging emerging technologies and trends. We combine the engineering and technical rigor of IT services providers with the creative approach and culture of digital agencies. Globant is the place where engineering, design and innovation meet scale. At Globant the best engineers team up with our art design studios and innovation labs to deliver a superb user experience through innovation, usability, scalability and availability. www.globant.com

Our vision is reducing BI & Analytics costs for end-users, delivering state-of-the-art enterprise wide reporting/decision enabling solutions and increasing collaboration.

GrayMatter have forayed into the vertical solutions space recently and have tailor-made solutions in the Aviation, BSFI and Manufacturing sector, which is built on the foundation of strong engineering expertise coupled with a hand-picked team of domain experts in the respective industry. These solutions are progressively becoming a talked about topic in Aviation, BSFI and Manufacturing industries today. Our partnership with MapR will bring Big Data to our clients.

Impetus Technologies offers Product Engineering and Technology R&D services for software product development. With ongoing investments in research and application of emerging technology areas, innovative business models, and an agile approach, we partner with our client base comprising large scale ISVs and technology innovators to deliver cutting-edge software products.

is-land Systems Inc. is an IT consulting company in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. We are the very first company to develop cloud computing application in the Science Park. We specialize in Data Analytics and information service for the high-tech manufacture Industry . With rich experience in software system development, we provide the most adaptive solutions for our customer to enhance the system performance. Our product HareDB (www.haredb.com) provides the best solution to extend the relational database to hybrid noSQL database. For more company details, please visit www.is-land.com.tw.

Knowledgent is a purpose-built Industry Information Consultancy that provides advanced Information Management and Analytical (IM&A) solutions with industry-specific specialization in Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare and Commercial markets. Knowledgent was founded with the mission to help an enterprise become more information centric. We chose this mission because while information has been recognized as a strategic corporate asset, its importance has now reached an inflection point: corporations that don’t learn to innovate through information and compete on analytics will be left behind by those that do. Extreme volumes of data are now being generated by systems, machines and the Internet, representing an unexplored ocean of data with unlimited potential. Mining this data can produce highly instructive predictions about products, markets, customers and human behaviors.

For over two decades, Mahindra Satyam has been committed to creating value for its customers, investors, associates and the society at large. This commitment has constantly fuelled the journey, encouraging us to think differently, work with passion and make things happen. http://www.mahindrasatyam.com/

MisOne Solution, since 2007, is a solution provider in Big Data space, focusing exclusively on Apache Hadoop and related technologies. MisOne is based in Bay Area, CA, with a direct focus to Europe, Middle East and Africa, with its development and sales office in Istanbul. MisOne combines expertise in data analytics with networking architectures, statistical intelligence and hands-on programming and support. MisOne partners with leading Hadoop distributors and solution providers in order to provide end-to-end solution with best in breed technologies.

NimbleScale is a consulting company headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley USA with overseas development center in Bangalore, India. We specialize in Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, Data Warehousing.

Established in 1989, NorCom Information Technology AG offers its Business Partners and Clients consulting and software solutions from one source. NorCom primarily addresses customers in the media and enterprise industry as well as the public and financial services sectors. In 2011, NorCom generated a total output of approximately 34 million Euros: it is listed at the Frankfurt stock exchange under symbol ›NC5‹.

Onepoint IQ blends decades of experience in Industry, Strategy, Business Consulting, Enterprise Architecture and Open Source to provide vendor independent services to help our clients to identify and deliver real business value from Big (and small) Data. Our multi-disciplinary team, structured discovery workshops, rapid proof-of-concepts by our innovation lab, pragmatic business case analysis, proven technical solution implementation and training services capabilities enable our clients to imagine wildly, experiment pragmatically and apply innovation to deliver a new level of insights and sustainable value. Come along to our stand or visit us at www.onepointiq.com.

OnX Enterprise Solutions is a global enterprise data centersolutions provider with a suite of end-to-end solutions includingthe industry's leading Federated Cloud solution offerings. Thecompany designs, builds and manages complete data centerenvironments comprised of multi-vendor offerings in four core areas- Cloud & Managed Services, Technology Solutions &Professional Services, Digital Application Services, and Hardware& Software Solutions. Over the past 28 years, OnX has helpedclients achieve exceptional business results that accelerate theirgrowth and value. With global headquarters in Toronto, Canada andUS based headquarters in New York, NY, OnX has a team of more than600 IT professionals, revenues of more than $750 million, andclients and offices throughout North America and Europe. OnX is aprivately held company and majority owned by Marlin EquityPartners. For more information, visit: www.OnX.com

OpenOsmium provides Advisory, Selection and Implementation of Big Data Solutions for Federal and Commercial Clients for their needs. OpenOsmium has seasoned expertise in Data Management, Implementation and Analytics which can be applied to the client to maximize their business value.

Orzota provides a complete range of consulting services to help businesses accelerate their big data deployments. We offer a comprehensive view of how Big Data Processing, Big Data Analytics and Enterprise Information Management come together using proven methods, architectures and leading practices. We can help you get on the journey to implement a Big Data Information Management solution that provides new insights into your business. Our team of skilled data scientists, architects and engineers have created solutions for customers in a wide variety of industries. For more information, please reach out to us at http://www.orzota.com/contact/.

Established in 1990, Persistent Systems (BSE & NSE: PERSISTENT) is a global company specializing in software product and technology services. For more than two decades, Persistent has been an innovation partner for the world's largest technology brands, leading enterprises and pioneering start-ups. With a global team of more than 6,000 employees, Persistent has 300 customers spread across North America, Europe, and Asia. Today, Persistent focuses on developing best-in-class solutions in four key next-generation technology areas: Cloud Computing, Mobility, Analytics and Collaboration, for telecommunications, life sciences, consumer packaged goods, banking & financial services and healthcare verticals. For more information, please visit: www.persistentsys.com

Our strategy is to offer customers partial or complex solutions which will become a powerful and an effective tool to realize each organization's goals in the business field in question. Our experts have more then eight years of experience with design, development and use of systems for management and decision making support for numerous clients in the Czech Republic and abroad.

www.tcs.com Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPO, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 263,000 of the world's best-trained consultants in 44 countries.

Think Big Analytics is a leading solutions provider for Hadoop and related Big Data technologies. Think Big Analytics works with customers to understand data processing challenges and assess how new analytics techniques and technologies fit. Think Big Analytics engages with innovative companies to create groundbreaking solutions. It consists of a growing team of thought leaders and experts in Hadoop, NoSQL databases, and related Big Data technologies.

UL Environment offers a variety of consulting services that help companies create sustainability-driven business solutions to increase market share and maximize profitability. Www.ul.com

Xtremeinsights provides services and solutions which focus on elevating enterprise business analytics capabilities to new levels by leveraging Hadoop and related big data technologies with organizations existing information management platforms.

From big data systems strategizing and planning, to enterprise-wide implementation and adoption, Xtremeinsights enables clients to unleash the power of their data assets.

Zaloni is a leading provider of Hadoop solutions focused on solving the most complex large-scale data analytic challenges. Zaloni builds agile Big Data solutions coupled with rich and interactive data visualization. Our offering includes end-to-end design, build, and deployment of Big Data platform services on MapR.

Z Data Inc. is your experienced partner for large scale deployments that require advanced engineering. Our best in class consultancy can help you with your big data implementations, development and Analytics. We've helped many businesses and entrepreneurs plan and execute initiatives with both structured and unstructured data sources. We bring a world of hands on experience with robust and scalable development and operations.www.zd8a.com

Calxeda provides revolutionary efficiency to the data center. Leveraging ultra-low power technology from ARM, servers built on Calxeda's silicon and software platform consume a fraction of the power and space of today's best-in-class servers, enabling data centers to realize significant reduction in capital and operating expenses. The Calxeda platform scales efficiently to thousands of server nodes, with unique network and storage acceleration, and is enhanced with management technology to deliver true "energy-proportional" computing. The result is a stunning breakthrough in performance efficiency, density, and scalability.

The worldwide leader in data center networking and now also a leading competitor in the server market, Cisco is partnering with MapR to provide a best-in-class Big Data solution. The Cisco® MapR Reference Configuration delivers an integrated, end-to-end software and hardware infrastructure that accelerates Big Data initiatives. The combination of world-leading Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS™) and MapR enables companies to significantly reduce time-to-value and the operating expenses associated with Apache Hadoop implementations.

Read Solution Brief: "Cisco UCS with MapR: Delivering Advanced Performance for Hadoop Workloads"

EMC partnered with MapR to provide enterprise grade Hadoop capabilities to their customers. In addition, EMC has incorporated the MapR platform into their customer offerings including security analytics. MapR enables EMC to expand the computing power, data storage, and bandwidth to power big data analytics against a broad and deep set of event information to improve security.

Fusion-io is a pioneer of a new storage memory platform that significantly improves the processing capabilities within a data center by moving process-critical, or active data closer to the CPU where it is processed. Called shared data decentralization, this significantly reduces latency while increasing data center efficiency. Fusion's integrated hardware and software solutions leverage non-volatile memory for enterprise-grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability.

AllianceONE is a comprehensive partner program focused on HP's Converged Infrastructure strategy of providing a shared services model to deliver secure, best-in-class applications.

IBM is unique in having developed an enterprise class big data platform that allows customers to address the full spectrum of big data business challenges. The platform blends traditional technologies that are well suited for structured, repeatable tasks together with complementary new technologies that address speed and flexibility and are ideal for adhoc data exploration, discovery and unstructured analysis.

IBM's integrated big platform has four core capabilities: Hadoop-based analytics, stream computing, data warehousing, and information integration and governance. For Information on IBM business analytics, visit: www.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bao.

Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. More information is available at www.mellanox.com.

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.

PSSC Labs offers a complete hardware, software computing platform designed specifically for MapR. Our patent pending server design provides the highest possible storage density with the lowest possible power footprint at an incredibly affordable price. For more information please visit www.pssclabs.com.

Violin Memory is pioneering a new class of high-performance flash-based storage systems that are designed to bring storage performance in-line with high-speed applications, servers and networks. Violin Flash Memory Arrays are specifically designed at each level of the system architecture starting with memory and optimized through the array to leverage the inherent capabilities of flash memory and meet the sustained high-performance requirements of business critical applications, virtualized environments and Big Data solutions in enterprise data centers. Specifically designed for sustained performance with high reliability, Violin's Flash Memory Arrays can scale to hundreds of terabytes and millions of IOPS with low, predictable latency. visit www.vmem.com.