Concurrent, Inc.’s Data Scientist to Present at Upcoming Big Data and Enterprise Tech Events

Cascading-Themed Sessions will be Held at Airbnb’s SF Tech Talk and Data Day Texas

SAN FRANCISCO – March 26, 2013 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced its director of Data Science, Paco Nathan, will present at two upcoming industry events, Airbnb’s Tech Talk in San Francisco and Data Day Texas in Austin, Texas. The talks will draw upon Nathan’s expert knowledge of Big Data and Cascading, and will include a keynote session at Data Day Texas.

Details At-A-Glance:

Airbnb SF Tech Talk

What: “Cascading: Enterprise Data Workflows based on Functional Programming”

When: Wednesday, March 27, at 7 p.m. PDT

Where: Airbnb Headquarters in San Francisco

How: To register and learn more about the talk, please visit:bit.ly/100h4CN

Nathan’s talk will be additionally live streamed and archived at: bit.ly/YKOlRE. Sponsored by O’Reilly Media, the event will also feature a drawing for free copies of his recently published “Enterprise Data Workflow with Cascading” book.

Data Day Texas Keynote

What: “Big Data in Texas: Then, Now, and Ahead”

When: Saturday, March 30, at 9 a.m. CDT

Where: AT&T Executive Education Conference Center, Austin

How: To register and learn more about the talk, please visit:bit.ly/YhKDp9

Data Day Texas Session

What: “Big Friendly Data Across Departments: Enterprise Data Workflows with Cascading”

When: Saturday, March 30, time TBD – please check the event agenda

Where: AT&T Executive Education Conference Center, Austin

How: To register and learn more about the talk, please visit:bit.ly/YhKDp9

Nathan will be holding office hours in the afternoon. He will additionally participate in a “Birds-of-a-Feather” meeting on Cascalog, in conjunction with the Austin and Dallas/Fort Worth Clojure Meetup groups. For more details on all, please visit: bit.ly/YhKDp9

About the Speaker

Paco Nathan is director of Data Science at Concurrent, Inc., where he leads the company’s developer outreach program. He holds a dual degree from Stanford in math/statistics and distributed computing, and has more than 25 years experience in the technology industry. Nathan is an expert in Hadoop, R, predictive analytics, machine learning and natural language processing. He has built and led several expert Data Science teams and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Supporting Resources

• Cascading website: http://cascading.org
• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the enterprise Big Data application platform company. Founded in 2008, Concurrent simplifies Big Data application development, deployment and management on Apache Hadoop. We are the company behind Cascading, the most widely used and deployed technology for building Big Data applications with more than 75,000 user downloads a month. Enterprises including Twitter, eBay, The Climate Corporation and Etsy all rely on Concurrent’s technology to drive their Big Data deployments.  Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit Concurrent online athttp://concurrentinc.com.

Media Contact
Danielle Salvato-Earl
Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
(650) 340 1982
concurrent@kulesafaul.com

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Concurrent Closes $4 Million in Series A Funding, Appoints Gary Nakamura as CEO

New Funding and Leadership Will Accelerate Product Development and Grow Core Team

SAN FRANCISCO – March 20, 2013 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced it has raised $4 million in Series A funding. The investment, led by True Ventures and Rembrandt Venture Partners, will be used to fuel product development, grow the core team and further deliver on the company’s vision to simplify Big Data application development on Apache Hadoop™. Concurrent is also announcing the appointment of Gary Nakamura as CEO, a high-tech executive with a winning track record and more than 20 years of experience.

Corporate Milestones

• Today’s $4 million in Series A financing follows a $900,000 seed investment in August 2011.
• Launched Cascading 2.1, the most widely used and deployed application framework for building robust, enterprise Big Data applications on Hadoop.
• User downloads of Cascading have surpassed more than 75,000 per month.
• Companies including The Climate Corporation, eBay, Etsy, FlightCaster, iCrossing, Razorfish, Trulia, TeleNav andTwitter are using Cascading to streamline data processing, data filtering and workflow optimization for large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data.
• Launched Lingual, an open source project that delivers ANSI-standard SQL technology to easily build new and integrate existing applications onto Hadoop.
• Entered into partnerships with technology leaders including, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, SpringSource, MapR, Greenplum, Karmasphere, Think Big Analytics and Scale Unlimited.
• Industry recognition includes 2012 InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software award win in the “Best Open Source Databases” category.

In conjunction with the funding news, Concurrent is pleased to welcome Gary Nakamura as CEO, effective immediately. Prior to joining Concurrent, Nakamura served as senior vice president and general manager of Terracotta, Inc., which was recently acquired by Software AG. There he led strategy, oversaw operating profit and loss, and ran business operations including sales, marketing and product management.

Founder Chris Wensel will take on a new role as CTO, where he will lead product innovation and Cascading community engagement for the company. “We are extremely excited to welcome Gary to Concurrent,” Wensel said. “His deep experience in the enterprise Big Data market will help us take the company to the next level.”

Supporting Quotes

“Our investors’ confidence in Concurrent validates our strategy and the pioneering work we have done since the launch of Cascading in 2008. This new investment will enable us to build on this foundation and accelerate our growth as we work to deliver our commercial product and grow the core team. I am excited to be joining Concurrent at such a pivotal time and look forward to driving the company’s continued growth and development.”

-Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

“After our initial investment, we have watched Concurrent grow substantially and lead the Big Data application development market. The promise of its core technology, combined with the management team’s pedigree and Cascading’s success, continue to make this an exciting investment opportunity.”

-Puneet Agarwal, Partner, True Ventures

“Since partnering with Concurrent in 2011, we have been impressed with the widespread adoption of its technology. We believe Cascading is an important innovation and is critical to the growth and sustainability of the Big Data technologies in the enterprise. We are excited about Concurrent’s success, and this additional financing from Rembrandt is a testament to the company’s talent, technology and ability to deliver next-generation Big Data application development and management solutions to the enterprise.”

-In Sik Rhee, General Partner, Rembrandt Venture Partners

Supporting Resources

• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Cascading website: http://cascading.org
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the enterprise Big Data application platform company. Founded in 2008, Concurrent simplifies Big Data application development, deployment and management on Apache Hadoop. We are the company behind Cascading, the most widely used and deployed technology for building Big Data applications with more than 75,000 user downloads a month. Enterprises including Twitter, eBay, The Climate Corporation and Etsy all rely on Concurrent’s technology to drive their Big Data deployments. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit Concurrent online at http://concurrentinc.com.

Media Contact
Danielle Salvato-Earl
Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
(650) 340 1982
concurrent@kulesafaul.com

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Concurrent Enables SQL Users to Build Big Data Applications on Hadoop in Less Than 30 Seconds 

Introducing Lingual, an open source software project that delivers ANSI-standard SQL technology to easily build new and integrate existing applications onto Hadoop

SAN FRANCISCO – Feb. 20, 2013 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced Lingual, an open source project enabling fast and simple Big Data application development on Apache Hadoop™. Leveraging the power and broad platform support of the Cascading application framework, Lingual lowers the barrier to enterprise Hadoop adoption by allowing SQL users to utilize existing skills to instantly create and run Big Data applications on Hadoop, without any new training or having to think in MapReduce.

Enterprises today are rapidly adopting Hadoop to deal with growing volumes of both unstructured and semi-structured data. However, the need for Hadoop to easily integrate with existing data management systems creates a real barrier to unlocking the full potential of Big Data and Hadoop.

Enter Lingual: True SQL for Cascading and Hadoop

With Lingual, companies can now leverage existing skill sets and product investments by carrying them over to Hadoop via a standards-based technology. Analysts and developers, familiar with SQL, JDBC or traditional BI tools, can now instantly and easily create and run Big Data applications on Hadoop, while gaining significant productivity and time-to-market benefits. Lingual presents a true ANSI-standard SQL interface and is compatible with all major Hadoopdistributions whether on-premise or in the cloud. Lingual use-case examples include:

• Data analysts, scientists and developers can now simply ‘cut and paste’ existing ANSI SQL code from traditional data warehouses and instantly access data locked on a Hadoop cluster.

• Developers can use a standard Java JDBC interface to create new Hadoop applications, or use any of the Cascading APIs and languages, such as Scalding and Cascalog.

• Being ANSI-standard compliant, companies can now query and export data from Hadoop directly into traditional BI tools.

Lingual runs on Cascading, the most widely used and deployed application framework for building robust, enterprise Big Data applications on Hadoop. Recognized companies, including The Climate Corporation, eBay, Etsy, FlightCaster, iCrossing, Razorfish, Trulia, TeleNav and Twitter are using Cascading to streamline data processing, data filtering and workflow optimization for large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. Cascading is also at the core of popular language extensions including PyCascading (Python + Cascading), Scalding (Scala + Cascading) and Cascalog (Clojure + Cascading) – open source projects sponsored by Twitter. Cascading has become the most reliable and repeatable way of building and deploying Big Data applications.

Supporting Quotes

“Here at Kontagent, we are very excited about the prospect of using standard SQL to provide seamless access to the billions of events that we track daily. Rather than filtering through events and exporting them to mySQL, our customer support staff and data scientists will finally be able to work with tools they already know to query the raw data directly within our Hadoop cluster through the use of Lingual and Cascading.”
-Zack Shapiro, Director of Engineering, Kontagent

“Concurrent was established with the belief that there had to be a simpler path to mass Hadoop adoption. And since day one, we have worked to create solutions that make it easier for developers to build powerful and robust Big Data application, quickly and easily. With the Lingual project, we are one huge step closer to realizing our mission.”

-Chris Wensel, CTO and Founder, Concurrent, Inc.

Supporting Resources

• Lingual website: http://cascading.org/lingual
• Cascading website: http://cascading.org
• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Contact Us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent

Availability and Pricing

Lingual will soon be publicly available and freely licensable under the Apache 2.0 License Agreement. To learn more about the Lingual project, visit http://cascading.org/lingual. Concurrent also offers standard and premium support subscriptions for enterprise use. To learn more about Concurrent’s offerings, please visithttp://concurrentinc.com.

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the enterprise Big Data application platform company. Founded in 2008, Concurrent simplifies Big Data application development, deployment and management on Apache Hadoop. We are the company behind Cascading, the most widely used and deployed technology for building Big Data applications with more than 75,000 user downloads a month. Enterprises including Twitter, eBay, The Climate Corporation and Etsy all rely on Concurrent’s technology to drive their Big Data deployments.  Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco. Visit Concurrent online athttp://concurrentinc.com.

Media Contact
Danielle Salvato-Earl
Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
(650) 340 1982
concurrent@kulesafaul.com

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Cascading Named 2012 Best Open Source Software Winner

IDG’s InfoWorld Bossie Awards Recognize Top Open Source Software for Enterprises

SAN FRANCISCO – September 19, 2012 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company behind the open source project Cascading, has been recognized as a winner of InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software Awards in the “Best Open Source Databases” category. Known as the “Bossies,” the annual awards recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done.

Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the 2012 Bossies celebrate software products and companies that demonstrate innovation, functionality, ease-of-use, implementation and a proven track record in serving the needs of today’s businesses.

Cascading is an application framework enabling Java developers to quickly and easily build robust data processing and machine learning applications on Apache Hadoop that can be deployed on clusters running in the cloud or within private data centers. Available under the Apache 2.0 License Agreement, Cascading offers an alternate API to MapReduce to simplify Big Data application development and deployment.

Recognized companies including, Airbnb, Climate Corporation, Etsy, FlightCaster, iCrossing, Razorfish, Trulia, TeleNav and Twitter are using Cascading to streamline data processing, data filtering and workflow optimization for large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. With a quickly growing community around it, Cascading is also at the core of popular language extensions including, PyCascading, Scalding and Cascalog (open source projects sponsored by Twitter) and tools including, CloudFront LogAnalyzer (developed by Amazon).

“It is a great honor to have Concurrent named a Bossie winner,” said Chris Wensel, CEO and founder of Concurrent Inc. “To be held in such high esteem by our industry is a real privilege — the recognition validates the value and quality of our open source technology.  Large companies have built mission critical applications that depend on Cascading to address their business challenges, and our vision is to continue to help developers be the most productive when developing any type of Big Data application.”

The 2012 Bossie winners include more than 100 products in seven categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security and storage. The full award results are available athttp://bit.ly/QybtAG.

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About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the enterprise Big Data application platform company. Founded in 2008 by Chris Wensel, the author of the popular open source Cascading API, Concurrent simplifies Big Data application development, deployment and management on Apache Hadoop. Concurrent is based in San Francisco and funded by Rembrandt Venture Partners and True Ventures. Visit Concurrent online at http://www.concurrentinc.com.