Welcome to our third episode. In this podcast we take a step up from the technical depths to talk with Jack Norris, Chief Marketing Officer of MapR Technologies about their enterprise class Hadoop distribution that customers far and wide are finding a viable solution to today’s Hadoop problems.
This months podcast runs a little over 37 minutes (still trying to get this down – but obviously not succeeding). It seems just when I think we’re close to the end, Howard or I jump in with yet another question that takes us down a different tack.
Back to the episode, the advantages of big data are obvious to many. Hadoop and its ecosystem allow IT to tackle jobs previously impossible to perform, clustering together 1000s of servers, and co-locating compute with data. All this provides an immense platform to perform data analytics on a scale never before possible.
Nonetheless, Hadoop has some weaknesses based on its heritage which make it less than it could be and that’s where MapR Technologies steps in. MapR has taken the Hadoop distribution and yanked out HDSF, replacing it with a completely re-architected/reimplemented enterprise class, fault tolerant storage service. But MapR is more than just better and faster storage, so listen to our talk with Jack to find out more about it. I am really having trouble getting my head around snapshotting a PB of Hadoop data at a whack …
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Jack Norris, CMO, MapR
Jack leads worldwide marketing efforts for MapR. Jack has over 20 years of enterprise software marketing and product management experience in defining and delivering analytics, storage, and information delivery products. Jack has also held senior executive roles with EMC, Rainfinity, Brio Technology, SQRIBE, and Bain and Company.