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5 More Buzz-worthy Big Data Analytics Apps Enterprise Apps Today – Drew Robb April 10, 2013 http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/business-intelligence/5-more-buzz-worthy-big-data-analytics-apps.html Concurrent Lingual Lingual is a free, open source project that was designed to enable fast and simple Big Data application development on Apache Hadoop. It leverages the platform… Continue reading →

MapR Puts Hadoop on Ubuntu, Source Code on GitHub eWeek – Darryl K. Taft April 1, 2013 http://www.eweek.com/database/mapr-puts-hadoop-on-ubuntu-source-code-on-github/ MapR and Canonical announced a partnership to put the MapR Hadoop distribution on Ubuntu. The company also put its source code on GitHub. MapR Technologies, a Hadoop… Continue reading →

VCs Bet Big Bucks on Hadoop March 27, 2013 – Deborah Gage http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/03/27/vcs-bet-big-bucks-on-hadoop/ “A couple of companies that make it easier for developers to write applications that run on Hadoop have also been funded recently. Concurrent this month raised $4 million and hired a new… Continue reading →

Concurrent Lingual Tool Announcement (as of March 6th, 2013) The Hadoop Ecosystem Infographic myNoSQL (GigaOM repost) Alex Popescu March 5, 2013 http://nosql.mypopescu.com/post/44639201775/the-hadoop-ecosystem-infographic The Hadoop ecosystem: the (welcome) elephant in the room (infographic) GigaOM Rani Molla and Derrick Harris March 5, 2013 http://gigaom.com/2013/03/05/the-hadoop-ecosystem-the-welcome-elephant-in-the-room-infographic/ Hadoop Apps Without… Continue reading →

Concurrent Funding/CEO Announcement (as of March 26, 2013) Bay Area People: Gary Nakamura SF Business Times April 1, 2013 http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/potmsearch/detail/submission/1580951 People on the Move: Gary Nakamura Silicon Valley Business Journal March 26, 2013 http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/potmsearch/detail/submission/1580961 Concurrent Secures $4M to Simplify Big Data Vision SiliconAngle – Melissa… Continue reading →

Twitter’s programmers speed Hadoop development To analyze enormous volumes of metadata and messages, Twitter turned to Hadoop — plus the Cascading framework to vastly simplify MapReduce development.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Concurrent Improves Reliability and Performance of Big Data Applications  Introducing Cascading 2.1, the leading Java application framework for building and deploying reliable enterprise Big Data applications on Hadoop SAN FRANCISCO – October 30, 2012 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company,… Continue reading →

Cascading provides data scientists at The Climate Corporation a solid foundation to develop advanced machine learning applications in Cascalog that get deployed directly onto Amazon EMR clusters consisting of 2000+ cores. This results in significantly improved productivity with lower operating costs. See the full case… Continue reading →

Read what the media is saying about Concurrent and our recent release of Cascading. CIO 6/6/12 – Ease Big Data Hiring Pain With Cascading 6/8/12 – 9 Open Source Big Data Technologies to Watch Datanami 7/13/12 – Cascading Into Hadoop’s Golden Era IT World 6/5/12… Continue reading →

Twitter has invested heavily in making Cascading a key component of their data analytics infrastructure. Cascading enables Twitter engineers to create complex data processing workflows in their favorite programming languages while providing the scalability to seamlessly handle terabyes and petabytes of data. See the full… Continue reading →