MapR Technologies Inc. was one of the three high-profile startups —  along with Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. — to burst upon the scene during the feeding frenzy a few years ago around Hadoop, the open-source big-data software framework. Like its counterparts, the company originally focused on integrating and extending components in the Hadoop ecosystem. […]

IT news and analysis outlet CRN recently released its sixth annual 2018 Big Data 100, a vendor listing that identifies the solution providers that are innovating in the space. The list is aimed at helping the providers identify the best partners. Different this year is that the list is broken down into four distinct technology […]

In the last two years, more data has been created than in the rest of human history combined. Thanks to advanced computing power, all this data can be used to help companies serve their customers better and become more efficient. Today, just about every large company in the United States has a data scientist on […]