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MapR pins hopes on single investor as rescue deadline passes

MapR Technologies Inc. missed a self-imposed July 3 deadline to secure new funding or find a buyer, but said it’s continuing discussions with a potential funding source that could keep the big-data company in business. “MapR is making meaningful progress toward a strategic transaction,” David H. Greenberg, vice president or legal at MapR, said in a prepared statement. …

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Hitting the Reset Button on Hadoop

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Hadoop has seen better days. The recent struggles of Cloudera and MapR – the two remaining independent distributors of Hadoop software — are proof of that. After years of failing to meet expectations, some customers are calling it quits on Hadoop and moving on. But others in the industry think Hadoop will survive into the …

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MapR says a lifeline is near, files WARN extension

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News of a possible flash sale at MapR adds to the plumes of smoke coming off the Hadoop-based data analytics market. In 2017, Forrester predicted providers of the technology would struggle to keep up with market pressures and evolving technology. Then last week, Cloudera — a front-runner in the field following its merger with Hortonworks — saw …

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First MapR, now Cloudera. Why is the Hadoop market in trouble?

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Projected layoffs, disappointing earnings and stock price dips have befallen companies that offer Hadoop-based analytics solutions geared at big data in the past two weeks. Toward the end of May, Hadoop-based big data company MapR filed a WARN notice with California labor authorities. Citing “extremely poor” results on its quarterly earnings report, last-minute client pullbacks …

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Have The Public Clouds Killed Hadoop?

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The big players in the Hadoop data analytics market continue to hit headwinds in a rapidly evolving market that now includes competition from Amazon Web Services and top-tier major cloud providers that offer enterprises services for managing and analyzing the huge amounts of data that they are generating. Less than a week ago, MapR Technologies, …

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Hadoop Pioneer MapR Faces An Uncertain Future

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It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these Hadoop platform providers have spent a lot of money and time to expand their stacks beyond the basic open source …

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Big-data bombshell: MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

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MapR Technologies Inc., one of the troika of unicorn startups that emerged from the early days of the big-data movement, may cut up to 122 jobs and shut down its Santa Clara, California headquarters if it can’t secure additional funding. The company, which raised a total of $280 million in financing since it was founded …

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NIIT Technologies to Acquire WHISHWORKS, a MuleSoft® and Big Data Specialist

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Signs definitive agreement to make a strategic investment Transaction to strengthen Digital capabilities, complement existing Transformation competencies, and create a powerful offerings combination in the Digital Integration space NEW DELHI, April 6, 2019/PRNewswire/ — NIIT Technologies Limited, a leading global IT solutions organization, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with WHISHWORKS IT Consulting, an …

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MapR to Present on AI, Machine Learning, Kubernetes and Kubeflow at Upcoming Industry Conferences

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Executives Speaking at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference and Strata Data Conference March 07, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MapR® Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s next generation data platform for AI and Analytics, today announced its executives will present on various data topics, including AI, machine …

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MapR Recognized by DBTA, SD Times and Solutions Review

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Named to the 2018 DBTA 100 “The Companies That Matter Most in Data,” 2018 SD Times 100 and the Solutions Review “5 Big Data System and Platform Tools We Recommend” June 19, 2018 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MapR® Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s leading data platform for AI and Analytics, …

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