MapR Technologies, a specialist in Hadoop technologies, has achieved significant customer wins across a broad section of industries.
The latest customer wins include existing users of Hadoop alternatives, in addition to new users. This trend proves that early distributions remain limited in their scalability, performance and reliability, according to MapR officials.
Hadoop was born out of a need to process big data, as the amount of generated data continued to rapidly increase. Hadoop enables applications to work with huge amounts of data stored on various servers.
With its Hadoop technologies, MapR enables customers to harness the power of big data analytics. The company has partnered with leading companies including Amazon, Cisco, EMC and Google (News - Alert) to deliver an enterprise-grade Hadoop solution.
MapR is actively used to analyze hundreds of billions of objects a day, 90 percent of the Internet population and more than a trillion dollars of retail transactions annually, according to company officials.
“As we close out 2012, our significant customer wins and market traction acknowledge our technology leadership and pioneering product innovation,” said John Schroeder, CEO and co-founder, MapR Technologies, in a statement. “We have already enabled thousands of customers to better manage and analyze Big Data and we look forward to extending our position as a leader by adding value to Hadoop where it matters most to our customers.”
Most recently, 10 of the Fortune 100 across different sectors have adopted the MapR distribution for Hadoop.
A well-established U.S. retailer uses MapR for social media analysis, pricing optimization and customer recommendation engines while a major financial services firm has deployed more than 1,000 nodes of the MapR Distribution to more easily combat fraud and develop new revenue opportunities.
In telecommunications sector, a leading wireless telecommunications company in the U.S. has opted MapR for ETL to offload its enterprise data warehouse, saving millions of dollars per year. Meanwhile, a leading electronic manufacturers is using MapR to analyze hundreds of millions of sensor and image readouts for hardware failure detection in a -99.999 percent environment
The Hadoop technology also finds application in healthcare sector. One of the largest healthcare companies in the United States is using MapR to improve analytics on their petabytes of electronic medical records, setting the pace of innovation in a dynamic industry faced with healthcare reform.
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Edited by Rachel Ramsey