MapR Technologies to Present Sessions About Hadoop and Apache Drill at Upcoming Conferences in June

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - May 30, 2013) -   MapR Technologies, Inc., the Hadoop technology leader, today announced it will share its insights about Hadoop and the Apache Drill project and showcase its award-winning MapR Distribution at five upcoming conferences in June, including Informatica World 2013, HBaseCon 2013, Open Analytics Summit, STAC Summit and Hadoop Summit.

Highlights include:

Informatica World 2013
When: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 10:15 am PT
Where: ARIA Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV, Juniper 2 Room
What: MapR's Chief Marketing Officer Jack Norris will present a session titled, "Using Hadoop to offload data warehousing processing." This session will examine specific use cases to illustrate the design considerations and the economics behind data warehouse offloading with Hadoop. The 50X cost advantage of Hadoop and the capability to store and analyze unstructured data makes Hadoop a compelling platform for vast information store and direct ETL processing
Exhibit: Booth #S9
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HBaseCon 2013
When: Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:30 pm PT
Where: San Francisco Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, CA
What: MapR's Development Lead Jacques Nadeau will present a session titled, "Apache Drill: A community-driven initiative to deliver ANSI SQL capabilities for Apache HBase." This session will provide an overview of Apache Drill that delivers full ANSI SQL capability for HBase users. Apache Drill, which is based on Google's Dremel technology, has an ambitious design goal of providing sub-second query capability over trillions of database rows. Drill is also designed to work with popular ecosystem components such as Salesforce-led Phoenix that provides coprocessor and secondary index push down capabilities, while complementing such technologies with distributed full sort and join functionality. Critical architectural pieces of this project along with associated use cases will be presented.
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Open Analytics Summit
When: Monday, June 17 at 11:30 am ET
Where: 404NYC, New York City
What: MapR's Data Scientist Allen Day will present a session titled, "NoSQL and SQL work side-by-side to tackle real-time Big Data needs." The session discusses how enterprise architects can take a holistic approach to real-time Big Data problems and look at NoSQL and SQL technologies as complementary pieces of the same puzzle. The session will delve into SQL queries over Hadoop and the various ways Hadoop NoSQL database and SQL work hand in hand to provide the best real-time results for the business user. Specifically, technologies such as Apache HBase and Apache Drill will be discussed.
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STAC Summit
When: Monday, June 17 to Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Where: Grand Hyatt, Park Avenue at Grand Central Station, New York
What: MapR's Vice President of Product Management Tomer Shiran will participate on a panel of Hadoop leaders at the Securities Technology Analysis Center Summit (STAC) who will address several questions: What kinds of uses make Hadoop important? What are people learning as they deploy it? What can financial firms learn from industries farther along the Hadoop curve? What are the key developments in the Hadoop ecosystem that will have the greatest implications for financial services companies? 
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Hadoop Summit
When: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 1:45 pm PT
Where: San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, Calif.
What: MapR's Senior Director Global Systems Engineering Rob Rosen will present a session titled, "How one company offloaded data warehouse ETL to Hadoop and saved $30 million." A Fortune 100 company recently introduced Hadoop into their data warehouse environment and ETL workflow to save $30 Million. This session examines the specific use case to illustrate the design considerations, as well as the economics behind ETL offload with Hadoop. Additional information about how the Hadoop platform was leveraged to support extended analytics will also be referenced.
Exhibit: Booth #15
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About MapR Technologies
MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop with a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. MapR brings unprecedented dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified Big Data platform. MapR is used across financial services, retail, media, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and government organizations as well as by leading Fortune 100 and Web 2.0 companies. Amazon, Cisco and Google are part of MapR's broad partner ecosystem. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.