Technology & IT | Sunday 17 May, 2015 9:15 am |

Data Science Technologies (DST), a subsidiary of StorIT Distribution and a pioneer in the Big Data Analytics solutions and services space, today announced their new partnership with MapR Technologies, provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®. With this partnership, DST will be able to offer enterprises in the Middle East cutting-edge technologies to address key big data challenges for business critical applications.

“Enterprises in the business of data have the most to gain from the MapR Distribution including Apache Hadoop®. MapR provides full data protection, no single points of failure, improved performance, and ease of use advantages to data-driven enterprises. This partnership enables DST to add its Big Data skills strength to the reliability, scalability and performance of the MapR enterprise-grade platform, delivering one the most comprehensive offerings for Hadoop® applications.” said Mr. Shashi Kanth, Sales Manager, Data Science Technologies.

MapR is purpose-built to optimize data architectures, making them more agile, scalable, and real time. With an in-Hadoop NoSQL database, MapR helps organizations impact business “as-it-happens” through automated processes that shorten data-to-action cycles.  MapR is a proven, enterprise-grade platform that supports a broad set of mission-critical and real-time production uses. Enabling organizations to successfully leverage the power of Hadoop, MapR provides a secure multi-tenant environment with high availability, disaster recovery, consistent snapshots, and the best in-Hadoop database, MapR-DB, to reliably run both operational and analytical processing in one platform.
As part of the agreement, DST will market and offer the MapR Enterprise Edition, the MapR Enterprise Database Edition and the MapR Sandbox for Hadoop® in the UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman to help enterprise customers quickly and effortlessly capture critical big data insights.

“Data Science Technologies offers deep knowledge in enterprise-class big data deployments and we look forward to working with them as we extend our presence in the Middle East,” said Xavier Guerin, vice president of business development for EMEA, MapR Technologies. “The company is a great addition to the MapR Advantage Partner program.”
With this partnership, DST will be able to offer their customers the ability to leverage massive amounts of data to impact business “as it happens” shifting the IT cost curve and allowing companies to strategically reimagine their business models.