SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 04/29/15 — provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop®, today announced participation at two Big Data Everywhere one-day conferences in May that will be held in Washington, D.C. on May 12 and in Denver, CO on May 21. Both events include engaging presentations that cover approaches and use cases that can help attendees understand the technical, business and practical aspects of Hadoop technologies.
When: Tuesday, May 12
What: , hosted by Data Education, DC
Where: Sheraton Tysons Corner, Tysons Corner
Who: MapR Director of Enterprise Strategy Jim Scott will present on: “The Next Generation Enterprise Architecture” and MapR Chief Application Architect and Apache Committer for Apache Mahout, Drill, and ZooKeeper Projects Ted Dunning will speak on the topic of “Practical Computing with Chaos.” The event will also feature presentations by comScore, Teradata, Terbium Labs and George Mason University. This event is co-presented by MapR and Teradata and sponsored by Protegrity and Skytree.
When: Thursday, May 21
What: , hosted by Denver Spark Meetup
Where: Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center, Denver, CO
Who: MapR Director of Product Management Neeraja Rentachintala will present a session titled: “Rethinking SQL for Big Data with Apache Drill” and Dunning will present: “Math in Spark: How Mahout makes Spark do Math.” Additional sessions by FullContact, Otto Ops, Protegrity, Return Path, Sovrn, and Teradata will feature discussions around various Apache projects, architecture and real-world use cases. This event is co-presented by MapR and Teradata and sponsored by Protegrity.
Big Data Everywhere and agenda details, including presentation times and additional speaker info and registration are available at the website. These conferences are open to the public for $49. Big Data Everywhere events are also scheduled for , , and .
Also during May, MapR will also present at the in Chicago on May 2. On May 12, MapR will present at the in New York City and in Dallas on May 16.
delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified distribution for Hadoop. MapR is used by more than 700 customers across financial services, government, healthcare, internet, manufacturing, media, retail and telecommunications as well as by leading Global 2000 and Web 2.0 companies. Amazon, Cisco, Google, Teradata and HP are part of the broad MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. MapR is based in San Jose, CA. Connect with MapR on , , and
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