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 Tolentino
March 21, 2013
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/03/21/concurrent-secures-4m-to-simplify-big-data-vision/

Big Data startup Concurrent raises $4M, names Gary Nakamura CEO
Silicon Valley Business Journal – Cromwell Schubarth
March 21, 2013
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/03/21/big-data-startup-concurrent-raises.html

Concurrent Raises $4 Million for Open Source Cascading Big Data App Framework
Internetnews.com – Sean Michael Kerner
March 21, 2013
http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/concurrent-raises-4-million-for-open-source-cascading-big-data-app-framework.html

Concurrent Finalizes $4M In Series A Funding; Announces New CEO Gary Nakamura
Cloud Computing Today
March 20, 2013
http://cloud-computing-today.com/2013/03/20/concurrent-finalizes-4-million-in-series-a-funding-and-announces-new-ceo-gary-nakamura/

Concurrent Raises $4 Million, Will Expand Big Data App Framework
The Inquisitr
March 20, 2013
http://www.inquisitr.com/581755/concurrent-raises-4-million-will-expand-big-data-app-framework/

Concurrent Raises $4M to Bolster Its Big Data App Framework
TechCrunch – Alex Williams
March 20, 2013
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/20/concurrent-raises-4m-to-bolster-its-big-data-app-framework/

Big Data Open Source App Framework Gets Funded
Enterprise Apps Today – Sean Michael Kerner
March 20, 2013
http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/data-management/big-data-open-source-app-framework-gets-funded.html

Hadoop Whisperer Concurrent Slurps VC Money
The Register – Jack Clark
March 20, 2013
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/20/hadoop_whisperer_concurrent_takes_vc_cash/

Concurrent Gets $4M for Higher-Level Hadoop
GigaOM – Derrick Harris
March 20, 2013
http://gigaom.com/2013/03/20/concurrent-gets-4m-for-higher-level-hadoop/

Concurrent Raises $4M from True, Rembrandt
peHUB – Mark Boslet
March 20, 2013
http://www.pehub.com/192109/concurrent-raises-4m-from-true-rembrandt/

Concurrent Raises $4M in Series A Funding
FinSMEs – Staff
March 20, 2013
http://www.finsmes.com/2013/03/concurrent-raises-4m-series-funding.html

Concurrent Raises $4M, Hires New CEO to Push Hadoop Apps
Dow Jones – Debbie Gage
March 20, 2013
http://pevc.dowjones.com/article?an=DJFVW00020130320e93kauu8f&from=alert&pid=32&ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fpevc.dowjones.com%3a80%2farticle%3fan%3dDJFVW00020130320e93kauu8f%26from%3dalert%26pid%3d32

Concurrent Grabs $4M to Make ‘Big Data’ App Development on Hadoop Easier
VentureBeat – Sean Ludwig
March 20, 2013
http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/20/concurrent-funding/

Venture Capital Deals
Fortune – Dan Primack
March 20, 2013
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/tag/venture-capital/

Startup Concurrent Lands $4 Million in Series A Funding to Simplify Big Data App Development
Database Trends & Applications – Joyce Wells
March 20, 2013
http://www.dbta.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=88515

Hadoop Going Wild-Funding for MapR and Concurrent, Support on Azure
Dataversity Blog – Ben Kepes
March 20, 2013
http://diversity.net.nz/hadoop-going-wildfunding-for-mapr-and-concurrent-support-on-azure/2013/03/20/

Concurrent Closes $4M Series A Round to Help Companies Build Big Data Apps
The Next Web – Paul Sawers
March 20, 2013
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/20/concurrent-closes-4m-series-a-round-to-help-companies-build-big-data-apps/

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 MapReduce Mindsets
Dr. Dobb’s
Adrian Bridgwater
February 28, 2013
http://www.drdobbs.com/open-source/hadoop-apps-without-mapreduce-mindsets/240149708

Concurrent Releases Lingual, a SQL DSL for Hadoop
InfoQ
Boris Lublinsky
February 28, 2013
http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/02/Lingual

Concurrent’s Lingual Designed to Let SQL Developers Run Big Data Applications on Hadoop 
Data Informed
Cindy Waxer
February 27, 2013
http://data-informed.com/concurrents-lingual-designed-to-let-sql-developers-run-big-data-applications-on-hadoop/

Open Source ‘Lingual’ Helps SQL Devs Unlock Hadoop
TechWorld
Thor Olavrund
February 25, 2013
http://news.techworld.com/applications/3428358/open-source-lingual-helps-sql-devs-unlock-hadoop/

Open Source ‘Lingual’ Helps SQL Devs Unlock Hadoop
Computerworld Norway (CIO repost)
Thor Olavrund
February 22, 2013
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=23E3AD74-B36B-1585-BBE869D6F093BA95

Open Source ‘Lingual’ Helps SQL Devs Unlock Hadoop
InfoWorld (CIO repost)
Thor Olavrund
February 22, 2013
http://www.infoworld.com/d/business-intelligence/open-source-lingual-helps-sql-devs-unlock-hadoop-213329

Open Source ‘Lingual’ Helps SQL Devs Unlock Hadoop
CIO Magazine
Thor Olavrund
February 22, 2013
http://www.cio.com/article/729283/Open_Source_Lingual_Helps_SQL_Devs_Unlock_Hadoop?page=1&taxonomyId=600010

SQL is what’s next for Hadoop: Here’s who’s doing it
GigaOM
Derrick Harris
February 21, 2013
http://gigaom.com/2013/02/21/sql-is-whats-next-for-hadoop-heres-whos-doing-it/

Concurrent Announces Lingual: A New Big Data Tool
Dataversity
Angela Guess
February 21, 2013
http://www.dataversity.net/concurrent-announces-lingual-a-new-big-data-tool/

Concurrent Open Source Project Ties SQL to Hadoop
ITBusinessEdge
Michael Vizard
February 21, 2013
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/it-unmasked/concurrent-open-source-project-ties-sql-to-hadoop.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MikeVizard+%28Mike+Vizard%29

Cascading into Hadoop with SQL
Datanami
Nicole Hemsoth
February 20, 2013
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2013-02-20/concurrent_announces_sql_app_development_on_hadoop.html

Concurrent gives old SQL users new Hadoop tricks
The Register
Jack Clark
February 20, 2013
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/20/hadoop_sql_translator_lingual_launches/

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, released Cascading 2.1, the application framework designed to enable Java developers to quickly and easily build Big Data applications on Apache Hadoop. Cascading 2.1 introduces some key new features that build upon the previous releases by improving reliability and performance of complex data processing and machine learning applications.

Introducing Cascading 2.1

Cascading is an application framework that enables Java developers to quickly and easily build robust data processing and machine learning applications on Apache Hadoop that can be deployed to 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 that simplifies Big Data application development and deployment.  Developers can quickly iterate and build their applications on laptops and instantly deploy at scale to Hadoop clusters without changing a single line of code.

Some of the new features introduced with Cascading 2.1 include the following:

• Checkpointing – Restartable flows allow for resuming flows within cascades without regenerating all data.  This enables developers and administrators to pause a complex application in order to validate the accuracy of a complex data flow and resume it from that point forward.
• Improved performance – Better memory usage of InnerJoin makeResult improves the efficiency of resource utilization on the Hadoop cluster, thus reducing application completion times and lowering operating costs.

Supporting Resources

• Website: http://www.concurrentinc.com
• Concurrent on Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent
• Cascading on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/cascading
• Cascading website: http://www.cascading.org
• Concurrent product page: http://www.concurrentinc.com/cascading

Availability and Pricing

Cascading 2.1 is available now, and freely licensable under the Apache 2.0 License Agreement. Concurrent offers standard and premium support subscriptions for enterprise use, with pricing based on number of users. To learn more about Concurrent’s offerings please visit http://www.concurrentinc.com/newsletter.

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.

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 study here.

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 – Cascading 2.0 works to ease MapReduce pain

Cloud Times
6/25/12 – 9 Open Source Big Data Technologies Set to Change the Web

Cloud Computing Today
6/10/12 – Cascading 2.0 Streamlines Hadoop-based Big Data Analysis And Development

InfoWorld
6/19/12 – Hadoop becomes critical cog in the big data machine

451 Group
6/4/12 – Concurrent updates Cascading application framework for Hadoop

SiliconAngle
6/4/12 – Cascading 2.0: An Application Framework for Hadoop Winning the Attention of Twitter, Etsy and EMC

6/5/12 – Automation and Easier Aggregation in Hadoop Clusters Signals Data as a Service Trend

ZDNet
6/11/12 – Concurrent launches open source API to ease Hadoop development

Dr. Dobb’s
6/8/12 – Where Does Big Data Go To Get Data-Intensive?
6/25/12 – Open Season On Hadoop Big Data APIs

Information Management
6/7/12 – New Product News – June 7, 2012

MyNoSQL
6/6/12 – Cascading 2.0 Released

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 case study here.