MWC - MapR and Ericsson announce partnership to Drive Innovation in Big Data

BARCELONA -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS.  – February 22, 2016 – MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, today announced that it has formed a partnership with Ericsson.  The two companies are working together to drive innovation for digital industrialization by leveraging the MapR Converged Data Platform to enable efficient processing and analyzing of information from multiple sources in real-time to support mission-critical application deployments at scale and effectively deliver customer value.
 
MapR will be present at Ericsson’s booth located in Hall 2 at the Mobile World Congress taking place the week of Feb 22-25 in Barcelona, Spain.
 
“Ericsson has chosen to partner with MapR for its leadership in powering innovative data applications for some of the world’s largest organizations, said Peter Hartlev, head of PL data and storage, cloud, Ericsson.  "The MapR Platform is uniquely architected to unify open source with the utility-grade features our customers require, such as security, high-performance, reliability, and scale.”
 
The MapR Converged Data Platform brings together Hadoop and Spark with global event streaming; real-time, top-ranked NoSQL database capabilities; and enterprise storage. The MapR Platform provides the fastest, most reliable, secure and open data infrastructure that dramatically lowers TCO and enables global real-time data applications for a broad set of business-critical and real-time production use cases.
 
“We are pleased to announce our partnership with Ericsson,” said Patrik Svanström, vice president, EMEA, MapR Technologies. “Our combined technologies will bring tremendous value leveraging big data to support the broadest efforts on digital transformation in the communication service provider market and will enable our joint customers to quickly realize significant ROI and improve operational efficiencies in real time from their data.”

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 50,000 developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big data skills gap. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on LinkedIn, and Twitter.