[February 07, 2017]

MapR Announces the Converged Data Platform for Docker

MapR Technologies, Inc., the provider of the first and only converged data platform, today announced the immediate availability of the industry's first persistent storage for containers that offers complete state access to files, database tables, and message streams from any location. The MapR Converged Data Platform for Docker includes the MapR Persistent Client Container (PACC) that makes it easy for stateful applications and microservices to access data for application agility and faster time-to-value.

"We are using containers with the MapR Platform across all our applications to drive agility in a fast development environment," said Gerard Paulke, enterprise architect, Quantium. "The ability to change direction rapidly for testing new software or deploying an application is a key advantage for us. MapR gives Quantium the speed, scale and efficiency that enables us to apply rigorous analytical techniques to consumer transaction data for a wide range of industries including retail, financial services and media."

"MapR is the leader in the converged data platform space, and Mesosphere DC/OS is the premier platform for modern apps that makes running containers, data services, and microservices easy," said Edward Hsu, vice president product marketing, Mesosphere. "MapR's recent innovation to make its platform available in a containerized setup expands the already broad set of backing data services that work on DC/OS. We're excited to see MapR embracing containers and together explore the opportunities that this move opens up."

Until now, only point solutions for file or block storage have been available with no comprehensive, secure data services for stateful containers. Enterprises are moving toward using container applications in production, but struggle to achieve anything more complex than a stateless web application. The biggest blocker today is the lack of data persistence, because without it applications cannot scale elastically to meet business requirements and cannot survive routine infrastructure failures, maintenance windows.

"Agile (News - Alert) enterprises today need their operational and analytical apps and microservices to be 'stateful' or aware of not just the 'now,' but historical information and context as well. Approaches where developers are requred to deploy dedicated data management and streaming services slow implementation and impede flexibility," said John L Myers, managing research director, Enterprise Management Associates - a Boulder Colo based industry analysis firm. "Focusing application developers on application logic and functions, speeds development and adds to implementation agility. The MapR Converged Platform empowers the deployment of stateful containerized applications via shared, multi-tenant data and streaming services."

Capabilities for stateful applications supported by the MapR Converged Data Platform for Docker include:

• Secure, reliable, high-performance data storage for configuration, logging, and binary state
• Scale out NoSQL K/V and Document Database storage for operational and light weight analytics
• Global event streams with persistence for inter-microservice communication state

"MapR today ushered in a new era for containers by releasing both a client container image and container-optimized data platform which gives enterprise all of the data services they need to support not only stateful applications, but also serve as a strategic platform to support microservices, and inter-microservice communication," said Jack Norris, senior vice president, data & applications, MapR Technologies.

The new MapR Converged Data Platform for Docker enables fast access of any data from any underlying infrastructure resource. This container-optimized environment includes the new MapR Persistent Application Client Container (PACC), providing the following:

• A pre-built Docker container that provides application access to files, database tables, and streams
• Secure authentication at the container level
• Scalable, high performance
• Extensible support for application layers
• Availability in Docker Hub and as a Dockerfile for customizability

Availability
The MapR Converged Data Platform for Docker is available now.

Resources

• Read this blog on the new Docker support and learn how it brings greater agility to software development and deployment
• Watch this whiteboard walk through video which illustrates Docker support
• More details of the new MapR Converged Data Platform for Docker are available here

About MapR Technologies
MapR provides the industry's only converged data platform that integrates the power of Hadoop and Spark with global event streaming, real-time database capabilities, and enterprise storage, enabling customers to harness the enormous power of their data. Organizations with the most demanding production needs, including sub-second response for fraud prevention, secure and highly available data-driven insights for better healthcare, petabyte analysis for threat detection, and integrated operational and analytic processing for improved customer experiences, run on MapR. A majority of customers achieves payback in fewer than 12 months and realizes greater than 5X ROI. MapR ensures customer success through world-class professional services and with free on-demand training that over 50,000 developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big data skills gap. Amazon, Cisco, Google, HPE, Microsoft, SAP, and Teradata (News - Alert) are part of the worldwide MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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