MapR Formed Partnership With Ericsson

MapR Technologies, Inc. has formed a partnership with Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson).

The two companies are working together to drive innovation for digital industrialization by leveraging the MapR Converged Data Platform to enable processing and analyzing of information from multiple sources in real-time to support mission-critical application deployments at scale and deliver customer value.

MapR was present at Ericsson’s booth during the Mobile World Congress on February 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 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 a fast, reliable, secure and open data infrastructure that lowers TCO and enables real-time data applications for a set of business-critical and real-time production use cases.

“We are pleased to announce our partnership with Ericsson,” said Patrik Svanström, VP, EMEA, MapR. “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.“