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MapR Recognised by Cisco as ISV Partner of the Year

Announcement posted by MapR 04 Apr 2016

Sydney, Australia – April 4, 2016 MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco® Partner Summit Geographical Region award for ISV Partner of the Year, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Cisco revealed the winners during its annual partner conference that took place earlier this month in San Diego, California.

Awarded to exemplary channel partners, the Cisco Partner Summit Geographical Region awards are designed to recognize best-in-class business practices and serve as a model to the industry within their respective regions. Areas of consideration include innovative practices, architecture-led approach successes, strategic business outcome-focused programs, seizing new opportunities and sales approaches.
 
“Cisco is proud to work together with leading partners globally to lead innovation and digital transformation everywhere and create new solutions and business models for our customers,” said Ruma Balasubramanian, vice president, Asia Pacific and Japan Partner Organization at Cisco. “It is an honor to recognize MapR Technologies with a Cisco Partner Summit Geographical Region award as ISV Partner of the Year, further underscoring its stellar accomplishments in the Asia Pacific and Japan region.”
 
“MapR is committed to its strategic relationship with Cisco and enabling joint customers to deploy innovative, global big data applications,” said Martin Darling, vice president, Asia Pacific and Japan, MapR Technologies. “We are extremely proud of our achievements and successes with Cisco and honored to receive this prestigious award.”
 
Cisco Partner Summit Geographical Regional awards reflect the top-performing partners within specific technology markets across the geographical region. All award recipients are selected by a group of Cisco Global Partner Organization and regional executives.
 
About MapR Technologies
MapR provides the industry's only Converged Data Platform that integrates the power of Hadoop and Spark with global event streaming, real-time database capabilities, and enterprise storage, enabling customers to harness the enormous power of their data. Organizations with the most demanding production needs, including sub-second response for fraud prevention, secure and highly available data-driven insights for better healthcare, petabyte analysis for threat detection, and integrated operational and analytic processing for improved customer experiences, run on MapR. A majority of customers achieves payback in fewer than 12 months and realizes greater than 5X ROI. MapR ensures customer success through world-class professional services and with free on-demand training that over 50,000 developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big data skills gap. Amazon, Cisco, Google, HPE, Microsoft, SAP, and Teradata are part of the worldwide MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on LinkedIn, and Twitter.
 
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