Zaloni Announces Partnership with MapR

DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 8 — Zaloni, a leading provider of peerless Hadoop software and solutions, today announced a partnership with MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop.

This partnership combines industry leading data resiliency and reliability from MapR, with Zaloni Bedrock’s managed data pipeline and Zaloni Professional Services to provide a complete data lake architecture for applications requiring high availability and security. Data ingestion, organization and preparation are automated and managed by Bedrock, with MapR ensuring data availability and security. Together the companies provide a complete Hadoop platform for analytics applications.

As part of this agreement, Bedrock, the only fully integrated Hadoop data management platform that integrates data ingestion, organization, and preparation based on metadata and workflow is now certified with the MapR Distribution including Apache Hadoop. Customers can now ingest, organize, manage and use data more quickly and efficiently.

“MapR and Zaloni have had a very successful relationship, deploying solutions at Fortune 100 customers for quite some time,” said Ben Sharma, CEO, Zaloni. “We are looking forward to deepening our partnership and extending the value of our joint data lake architecture to many more customers.”

This partnership has already delivered immediate business value for Fortune 100 companies seeking Big Data solutions. For example, a global healthcare provider offering information and technology-enabled health services relies on the joint Bedrock and MapR Data Lake solution to provide a seamless platform for managing data related to claims, payments, records and policies. This healthcare data is collected and ingested from a variety of legacy databases into the highly secure, easily accessible Hadoop platform for analytics and reporting.

“MapR is pleased to bring our enterprise-grade Hadoop Distribution to the Zaloni Bedrock Platform,” said Jon Posnik, vice president of business development, MapR Technologies. “The combination of our product offerings enables customers to successfully deploy a leading data lake architecture that is powerful, secure, reliable, and easy to use.”