MapR Technologies' Executives to Feature Tutorials on Hadoop, Machine Learning and Drill at Upcoming October Conferences

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 1, 2013) - MapR Technologies, Inc., the Hadoop technology leader, today announced it will present and showcase its distribution for Apache™ Hadoop^R at a wide-range of events in October, including:

• .conf 2013
• DataWeek 2013,
• Life Science Lean-In - Analytics & Big Data in Healthcare,
• Big Data TechCon 2013,
• SNW Fall 2013, and
• Strata + Hadoop World 2013.

Highlights include:

Splunk .conf2013
When:
October 2, 2013
Where:
The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, NV
What:
MapR Chief Technology Officer M.C. Srivas will participate on the Big Data Ecosystem partner panel at 4:30 PM.

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DataWeek 2013
When:
October 2, 2013
Where:
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
What:
MapR Chief Application Architect Ted Dunning will present a session titled, "What Shape is Your Data? Identifying Design Patterns for Big Data Applications" at 11:00 AM. At 1:00 PM, Vice President of Product Management Tomer Shiran will present on a panel titled, "What is the Hadoop Ecosystem?" At 2:00 PM, Apache Drill Committer Jacques Nadeau will present a session titled, "Large Scale Distributed Queries with Apache Drill."

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Life Science Lean-In - Analytics & Big Data in Healthcare
When:
October 11, 2013
Where:
Optum Corporate Conference Center, Eden Prairie, MN
What:
MapR Data Scientist Allen Day will present a session titled, "Design Patterns for Big Data Architecture: Best Strategies for Streamlined [Simple, Powerful] Design." Regional Sales Director Matt Ammentorp will present a session titled, "Build a Better Data Repository with Hadoop and NoSQL." The company is a silver sponsor and will be exhibiting.

Visit here for more information about the Life Science Lean-In.

Big Data TechCon
When:
October 15 - 17, 2013
Where:
Hyatt Regency, Burlingame, CA
What:
On October 16 at 1:45 PM MapR Vice President of Professional Services Dave Jespersen will present a session titled, "Using Hadoop to Lower the Cost of Data Warehousing: The Paradigm Shift Underway." At 3:15 PM, he will conduct a session titled, "Running Mission-Critical Applications on Hadoop." Apache Drill Committer Jacques Nadeau will present a session titled, "Large Scale Distributed Queries with Apache Drill," on October 17 at 3:30 PM.

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SNW Fall 2013
When:
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Where:
Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA
What:
MapR Chief Marketing Officer Jack Norris will present a session titled, "Understand How to Leverage Hadoop Beyond the Testing Environment," at 2:40 PM.

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Strata + Hadoop World
When:
October 28 - 30, 2013
Where:
New York Hilton Midtown, New York
What:
MapR Chief Application Architect Ted Dunning will present a session titled, "Machine Learning Applications: Recommendation Engines Using Multiple Behavior Sources," on October 28 at 9:45 AM. On October 29 at 9:10 AM, Chief Marketing Officer Jack Norris will present a session titled, "Separating Hadoop Myths from Reality." At 11:50 AM, Chief Technology Officer M.C. Srivas will present a session titled, "Shift into High Gear: Dramatically Improve Hadoop and NoSQL Performance." MapR is an elite sponsor and is exhibiting in booth # 102.

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Additionally, MapR will present at the 5th Data Science Day in Berlin and Jax London 2013 in London. Visit here for more information.

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.