Early adopters want tools, but the bulk of the market wants products. Big data doesn’t change this principle. It is natural that in the early stages the raw power of tools should be celebrated. That ...

MapR Technologies is pursuing a unique strategy in the world of Big Data technology. Instead of focusing on offering a pure open source distribution like Hortonworks, or on adding additional ...

When it emerged from stealth in 2011, MapR was an outlier in the Hadoop community. At the time, Hadoop was defined largely by two projects adapted from Google research: MapReduce, which introduced ...

MapR came out of stealth in March 2011, not long after Datastax announced its own alternative distribution of Hadoop (which has since been rolled into its Cassandra distribution). Hadapt launched at ...

In the Hadoop world, we've noted that MapR has always marched to a different drummer. Its core file system is the building block for its Converged Platform, where you can squash the Lambda ...

Hadoop software distributor MapR Technologies is launching a partner program to expand its channel presence and capture what the company described as a fast-growing number of sales opportunities for ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 6, 2017) - Big Data Paris 2017 --MapR Technologies, Inc., the provider of the first and only converged data platform, and Outscale, the enterprise-class cloud provider ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying the assets of MapR, signalling the end of the Google-backed startup. MapR had announced in May that it was cutting 122 jobs and planning to close its Santa Clara, ...

MapR Technologies and VMware have collaborated to make it easier for enterprises to virtualize big data applications and get better support at the same time. The companies have collaborated to certify ...

MapR, a cloud data management startup, said it plans to cut 122 jobs and close its Silicon Valley headquarters. The company said it is "actively pursuing a strategic transaction" that may allow it to ...