by Angela Guess
According to a new article out of the company, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, today announced it has been named a Visionary in the Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics. The MapR Converged Data Platform enables customers to leverage a real-time, reliable analytics platform for global data-driven applications. The complete report, including the quadrant graphic, is available here.”
According to Gartner, “Organizations now require data management solutions for analytics that are capable of managing and processing internal and external data of diverse types in diverse formats, in combination with data from traditional internal sources. Data may even include interaction and observational data — from Internet of Things sensors, for example. This requirement is placing new demands on software in this market as customers are looking for features and functions that represent a significant augmentation of existing enterprise data warehouse strategies.”
The article adds, “The MapR Converged Data Platform supports the broadest set of applications and uses, including reliable and real-time applications that are featured in the MapR App Gallery. The MapR Platform integrates Hadoop and Spark, real-time database capabilities, and global event streaming with web-scale storage, for developing and running innovative data applications in a single cluster. The MapR Platform is powered by the industry’s fastest, most reliable, secure, and open data infrastructure that dramatically lowers TCO and enables global, real-time, data-driven applications.”
photo credit: MapR