Companies Collaborate to Strip Hype from Big Data to Deliver Solutions with Tangible Value to Enterprise Customers

SAN FRANCISCO and WESTERVILLE, OHIO – June 30, 2015 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, and Analytics Inside LLC, a company that specializes in advanced analytical solutions for intelligence, law enforcement and healthcare, today announced they are teaming up to help businesses speed development of Hadoop-based enterprise data applications. Analytics Inside provides products, services and training across these and other industry verticals.

This alliance between Concurrent, whose Cascading platform and Driven solution help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale, and Analytics Inside, who utilizes the most effective, advanced analytical technologies using machine learning, natural language processing and Hadoop to provide powerful service-oriented solutions, means that users within the big data community will be able to tap into both companies’ extensive, deep knowledge in the industry. Analytics Inside is also providing Concurrent-developed training services for Cascading, as well as a large number of training classes developed for other big data products and technologies.

Analytics Inside has years of experience and expansive knowledge deploying Cascading-based applications in production. Cascading has provided stability and ease in the underlying Hadoop stack that has allowed Analytics Inside products to move from the earliest Hadoop versions, then to YARN – and now to Tez seamlessly. This allows Analytics Inside to run applications on any fabric of choice. By leveraging Cascading and Driven, Analytics Inside has the ability to take big data projects from inception to production quickly. Additionally, it has seen a steady increase in usage of Cascading and has been delivering consulting and training services to Fortune 1000 companies nationally. 

Concurrent provides the proven data application platform for reliably building and deploying data applications on Hadoop. With more than 275,000 downloads a month, Cascading is the enterprise data application platform of choice and has become the de-facto standard for building data-centric applications. Driven is the industry’s leading application performance management product for the data-centric enterprise, built to provide business and operational visibility and control to organizations that need to deliver operational excellence. Together, Cascading and Driven deliver a one-two punch to knock out the complexity and provide a proven reliable solution for enterprises to execute their big data strategies.

In addition to this partnership, the principals at Analytics Inside, Michael Covert and Victoria Loewengart, have written a book published by Packt Publishing, titled “Learning Cascading.” Available now, this book is intended for software developers, system analysts, big data product managers and data scientists who want to deploy big data solutions using Cascading. It offers basic and advanced features of Cascading through a practical, hands-on approach with step-by-step instructions and code samples.

With “Learning Cascading,” readers will learn how to:

• Design, develop and use custom operations
• Acquire the skills needed to integrate Cascading with external systems
• Gain expertise in testing, QA and performance tuning to run an efficient and successful Cascading project
• Explore project management methodologies and steps to develop workable solutions
• Discover the future of big data frameworks and understand how Cascading can help your software to evolve with it
• Uncover sources of additional information and other tools that can make the development tasks a lot easier

To order a copy of “Learning Cascading,” please visit: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/learning-cascading.

Supporting Quotes

“We’ve been using Cascading in production for years now, and have developed many solutions for our customers that have now stood the test of time due to the unique ability of Cascading to adapt to the rapidly changing and evolving big data ecosystem. Additionally, Cascading and Driven have given us a competitive advantage by reducing development time and abstracting away many of the undue complexities of MapReduce. Because of this longstanding relationship, we’ve been able to provide a range of next-generation, advanced analytical solutions to maximize the value of big data for organizations that depend on the data collected. This is a strategic partnership for us because our solutions open the doors for customers to new ways of understanding, exploiting and acting on their data.”

– Michael Covert, CEO, Analytics Inside

“Throughout our interactions with the team at Analytics Inside, we have not only been impressed by their knowledge of Cascading, but their keen understanding of enterprise business needs and how they are looking to leverage all of their data assets. Analytics Inside is an ideal partner for us as it provides a unique combination of business acumen, data engineering skills and analytical expertise to help our customers transform their business.”

– Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

Supporting Resources

• Driven: http://www.cascading.io/driven
• Cascading: http://cascading.org
• Concurrent: http://concurrentinc.com
• Analytics Inside: http://www.analyticsinside.us
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/concurrent-inc.
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/getcascading

About Analytics Inside

Founded in 2005, Analytics Inside is a Westerville, Ohio based company that specializes in advanced analytical solutions and services. Analytics Inside produces the RelMiner™ family of relationship mining systems, which includes RelPredict™ machine learning and RelExtract™ Natural Language Processing. These systems are based on big data, graph theory, machine learning, data visualization and natural language processing. For further information, visit http://www.AnalyticsInside.us or email info@AnalyticsInside.us.

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 275,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

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Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
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Cascading 3.0 Supports Multiple Compute Fabrics for Running Enterprise Data Applications at the Speed of Business 

SAN FRANCISCO – June 9, 2015 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, today announced the general availability of Cascading 3.0, the most widely used application platform for building and deploying enterprise data applications on Apache Hadoop.

The data application technology landscape continues to rapidly evolve with new, state-of-the-art, compute fabrics but with varying degrees of maturity. Enterprises who have invested in Hadoop are seeking practical solutions that provide the degrees of freedom to solve simple to complex problems, all while ensuring their investments are protected against change and technical uncertainty. Organizations need an enterprise-grade data application platform to quickly build and consistently deliver these data products to the business.

Cascading 3.0 represents a milestone release for future-proofing investments in next-generation data infrastructure by allowing enterprises to take advantage of newer compute fabrics as they come available without taking on any inherent risks. Cascading 3.0 abstracts away the underlying platform, allowing users to execute against additional platforms, not just MapReduce. Users have unique portability across programming languages (Java, SQL, Scala), Hadoop distributions (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR) and now compute fabrics. Native support for Apache Tez is the first to be supported, with others to be quickly added.

Cascading 3.0 Sets the Bar for Enterprise Application Development

With more than 275,000 user downloads a month, Cascading is the de facto standard in enterprise application infrastructure technology. With tens of thousands of production deployments and millions of production jobs, Cascading is relied on by the largest data-centric businesses, supported by key strategic partnerships with Hortonworks and broad support with all major Hadoop distributions. Cascading accelerates and simplifies enterprise application development, and meets a variety of enterprise use cases – ranging from simple to complex.

Cascading 3.0 is a major leap forward in enterprise data-centric application development. Features and benefits include:

• Allows enterprises to build data applications once, and run applications on the compute fabric that best meets their business needs
• Supports local In-memory, MapReduce and Apache Tez
• Delivers a flexible runtime layer for new computation fabrics to integrate and adhere to the semantics of a given compute engine, such as MapReduce or any DAG-like model through its pluggable query planner
• Provides benefits through portability to third-party products, data applications, frameworks and dynamic programming languages built on Cascading
• Supports compatibility with all major Hadoop vendors and service providers, including Altiscale, Amazon EMR, Cloudera, Hortonworks , MapR and Qubole, among others

Concurrent is leading the market in big data application infrastructure with Cascading and Driven, the industry’s leading performance management product for the data-centric enterprise. With Cascading at the core, Concurrent continues to meet customer demand for state-of-the-art technologies, while balancing the pragmatic needs for enterprise application development, forging important industry partnerships and making data-driven application development simpler, faster and smarter. Together, Cascading and Driven deliver a one-two punch to knock out the complexity and provide a proven reliable solution for enterprises to execute their big data strategies.

Supporting Quotes

“Thanks to Cascading’s new TEZ engine, we were able to increase the processing speed of our main workload by a factor of 2x in production, and upwards of 10x in integration testing, compared to the traditional Hadoop MAPREDUCE engine. This acceleration was achieved with no significant changes to our application code, which is written in Scala using the Scalding framework. This spectacular improvement enables us to delay increasing the size of our cluster, improve turnaround time and at the same time enforce integration testing multiple times per hour, which is essential to ensure the quality and trustworthiness of our solution in a cost-effective way. To sum up, this collaboration allowed us to highly improve the quality and delivery of our service to our clients – Transparency RM offers Business Intelligence services and real online uses certification in a big data context. We look forward to the next adventure!”

– Cyrille Chépélov, Chief Innovation Officer, Transparency RM

“BloomReach standardized on Cascading as our data application development framework because it was easy to use and accommodated our scalability requirements. With terabytes of data processed every day by thousands of jobs, combined with rapid application iteration to deliver the best discovery experience to over 75 million consumers monthly, we require a flexible, scalable and efficient application development framework and chose Cascading. We are excited to see Cascading 3.0 hit this milestone so we can start testing out even better performing compute fabrics like Tez and Spark.”

– Amit Aggarwal, head of development, BloomReach

“We have transformed how brands and agencies effectively develop and deploy mobile marketing campaigns and we did that by transforming ad performance analytics. Instead of sampling, we process data sets that include over 30B data points to derive exactly how ads performed. We developed our innovative analytics applications such as Attribution and Report Builder using Cascading and Driven. The Cascading application development platform enabled us to manage our development process and increase developer productivity by 10x over hand coding in MapReduce. It organizes our code to promote reuse and standardization, which made it easier for us to build highly resilient, enterprise quality applications from day one. Cascading 3.0 is an exciting milestone as it delivers a truly future-proof application development platform so we can explore other computing fabrics to solve the next problem without retooling and retraining.”

• Mikhail Izrailov, big data specialist, Medialets

“With reported improvement gains of up to 15 times faster execution time, Tez and Scalding seem to be really delivering from Cascading’s perspective, as new execution fabrics are proving that Cascading and Scalding are enterprise ready, on a path of continuous improvement and can withstand the exciting claims from the growing community of Spark users.”

– Antonios Chalkiopoulos, author of “Programming MapReduce with Scalding” book

“This new, available version of Cascading will enable our users even further by simplifying application development, accelerating time to market and allowing enterprises to leverage existing, and more importantly, new and emerging data infrastructure and programming skills.”
– Chris Wensel, founder and CTO, Concurrent, Inc.

Availability and Pricing

Cascading version 3.0 is immediately and freely licensable under the Apache 2.0 License Agreement. To learn more about Cascading, visit http://cascading.org. Concurrent also offers standard and premium support subscriptions for enterprise use.

Supporting Resources

• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Cascading: http://cascading.org
• Driven: http://www.cascading.io/driven
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Twitter:http://twitter.com/concurrent
• LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/company/concurrent-inc
• YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/getcascading

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 275,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

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Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
(650) 922-7287
concurrent@kulesafaul.com

New Release Delivers Deep Operational Insights for Hadoop Applications

SAN FRANCISCO – May 27, 2015 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, today announced the latest release of Driven, the industry’s leading application performance management product for the data-driven enterprise. Driven is built to address the challenges of business-critical data application development and deployment, delivering control and performance management for enterprises seeking to achieve operational excellence on Hadoop.

As enterprises continue in the business of data, IT leaders are rapidly executing on next-generation data management strategies. However, working on Hadoop has proved to be difficult. Specifically, enterprises are struggling with data governance, compliance and application performance management due to a plethora of compute fabrics, a shortage of performance management tools and Hadoop’s out-of-the-box complexity.

Driven offers unmatched visibility into applications written in Cascading, Scalding, Cascalog, Hive and native MapReduce, providing deep insights, search, segmentation and visualizations for service-level agreement (SLA) management – all while collecting rich operational metadata in a scalable data repository. This allows users to isolate, control, report and manage a broad range of data applications, from the simplest to the most complex data processes, allowing enterprises to leverage capabilities across a wide variety of application frameworks. Driven is a proven performance management solution that enterprises can rely on to deliver against their data strategies.

Key features of Driven 1.2 include:

Enhanced governance and compliance for Hadoop apps

• Create and export saved views of a rich metadata repository to support governance and compliance.
• Visualize end-to-end data lineage, allowing users to view the data pipeline in real time.
• Detect applications that violate service-level agreements (SLAs) and policies.

Operational excellence for Hadoop apps

• Integration with third-party monitoring tools and notification platforms like HipChat, PagerDuty and Nagios, allowing organizations to seamlessly integrate Driven into their existing communication and management platforms.
• Integration with JIRA, allowing users to quickly create JIRA issues with detailed application views and application specific operational data.
• Application performance segmentation by team, department or custom tags for role-based views, chargeback models and capacity planning.

Driven can be downloaded now at http://cascading.io/download-driven-server/.

To learn more about the features in the latest release of Driven, register for the webinar titled, “How to get Hadoop Application Intelligence With Driven” taking place on Wednesday, May 27 at 11 a.m. PT by visiting: http://info.cascading.io/how-to-get-hadoop-app-intelligence-with-driven

Supporting Quotes

“HomeAway, Inc., the world leader in vacation rentals, has selected Driven in order to reduce development times and time-to-market with specific data-integration projects. Driven, was a catalyst to the Cascading development process. It also provided great collaboration opportunities with other data engineers and data analysts allowing them to understand the data flows at-a-glance without having to read any code.”

– René X. Parra, Principal Architect, HomeAway, Inc.

“As a healthcare analytics provider, Driven gives us clear detailed insights into how our Hadoop applications are performing on our AWS Hadoop clusters.  It has accelerated our ability to identify issues in our code, saving us valuable time and money.”

– Jeff Rick, CTO, Deerwalk Inc.

“Organizations expect to operate Hadoop applications with the reliability, ease and manageability they are accustomed to, With Driven, enterprises are equipped with the right solution to not only achieve operational excellence on Hadoop, but to aggressively drive their plans forward.”

– Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

Supporting Resources

• Driven: http://www.cascading.io/driven
• Cascading: http://cascading.org
• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/concurrent-inc.
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/getcascading

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 275,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

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Danielle Salvato-Earl
Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
(650) 922-7287
concurrent@kulesafaul.com

Companies’ Combined Experience with Production-Grade, Large-Scale Deployments Helps Businesses Seeking Competitive Advantage, Leveraging Data Assets

SAN FRANCISCO and STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – April 7, 2015 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, and Big Data AB, a consultancy focusing solely on big data technologies based on Hadoop, today announced they are teaming up to help businesses speed development of Hadoop-based enterprise data applications.

This partnership between Concurrent, whose Cascading platform and Driven solution help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale, and Big Data AB, the premier big data consultancy in Sweden, means organizations worldwide will be able to tap into the companies’ extensive consulting, integration and development experience for both of their growing global customer bases.

Big Data AB has developed some of Sweden’s first Hadoop-based data analytics solutions that are in production. The company has helped customers such as King Digital Entertainment and Svenska Spel integrate their transaction-intensive systems into large-scale analytics and reporting infrastructures.

Concurrent provides the proven data application platform for reliably building and deploying data applications on Hadoop. With more than 275,000 downloads a month, Cascading is the enterprise data application platform of choice and has become the de-facto standard for building data-centric applications. Driven is the industry’s leading application performance management product for the data-centric enterprise, built to provide business and operational visibility and control to organizations that need to deliver operational excellence. Together, Cascading and Driven deliver a one-two punch to knock out the complexity and provide a proven reliable solution for enterprises to execute their big data strategies.

Supporting Quotes

“We help enterprise customers design big data processing pipelines. To process data at scale, you want to express your data transformation as code and have proper application management for optimum execution. Concurrent provides just the right level of abstraction on top of core Hadoop technologies to help you focus on business problems.”

– Johan Pettersson, founder and consultant, Big Data AB

“At Concurrent, our focus is on solutions that enable our customers to build, run and manage data applications at scale. We seek to partner only with consultants and integrators that have proven experience developing applications that have been deployed at scale and are in production. Big Data AB is the ideal partner for Concurrent as we both understand the realities and requirements of building applications that our customers can rely on.

– Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

Supporting Resources

• Driven: http://www.cascading.io/driven
• Cascading: http://cascading.org
• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/concurrent-inc.
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/getcascading

About Big Data AB
Big Data AB is a Stockholm-based consultancy, established in 2011 that focuses on Hadoop technologies. Working with a number of fast-growing online companies within gaming, advertising and payment, Big Data AB has a proven track-record of putting Hadoop solutions into production.

About Concurrent, Inc.
Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 275,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

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Danielle Salvato-Earl
Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
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concurrent@kulesafaul.com

SAN FRANCISCO – Jan. 27, 2015 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, closed 2014 with tremendous growth and momentum, product innovation and community success in the enterprise. The company continues to pave the road for enterprise big data application infrastructure with rapid adoption of its Cascading platform, along with the introduction of its flagship enterprise solution, Driven. Additional milestones from the past year include $10 million in Series B funding, expansion of its leadership team, new strategic partnerships, and strong industry accolades and recognition.

As more and more enterprises solidify and advance their data strategies, with it comes the increased demands and requirements for a more reliable and repeatable way to operationalize their data. As a result, Concurrent has focused on delivering a simplified and consistent way for enterprises to build, run and manage their business-critical data applications.

2014 Corporate and Product Milestones

• Secured $10 million in Series B funding, led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures with the participation of existing investors Rembrandt Ventures and True Ventures.
• Expanded leadership team with the appointments of Supreet Oberoi as vice president of field engineering and Salil Deshpande to the board of directors.
• Launched and announced the general availability of Driven – the industry’s first application performance management product for the data-centric enterprise, built to provide business and operational visibility and control to organizations who need to deliver operational excellence.
• Launched Driven 1.1, adding support for Apache Hive and MapReduce, for deeper visualization into enterprise data pipelines, as well as data application segmentation and SLA management.
• Launched Cascading 3.0, the most widely used and deployed platform for building and deploying robust, enterprise-grade big data applications on Hadoop. Cascading delivers a stable enterprise-grade API that enterprises can rely on, providing the flexibility to choose a compute engine to meet the needs of the use case, i.e. MapReduce, Tez, Spark, Storm or Samza.
• Increased Cascading user downloads from 130,000 to more than 275,000 per month.
• Added new strategic partnerships with technology leaders including Hortonworks, Rackspace, , Orzota, EPAM and Databricks.
• Received accolades such as SD Times 100, InfoWorld Bossies, DataWeek Awards, and CRN Emerging Vendors and Big Data 100 lists.

Supporting Quote
“As enterprises continue to realize they are in the business of data, 2014 proved to be an exceptional year for Concurrent. Delivering simple and reliable products at our core, we continued to meet customer demand for enterprise needs for next-generation data processing by delivering valuable products that enterprise can rely on for years to come. As we look to the year ahead, we expect to see significant growth and look forward to seeing more enterprises achieving great success with Cascading and Driven.“ – Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

Supporting Resources

• Driven: http://www.cascading.io/driven
• Cascading: http://cascading.org
• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/concurrent-inc.
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/getcascading

About Concurrent, Inc.
Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 275,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

Media Contact
Danielle Salvato-Earl
Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
(650) 922-7287
concurrent@kulesafaul.com

Predicted Trends include More Jobs, Failure, Money and Confusion, Driving a More Realistic Approach to Big Data and Worldwide Expansion for Hadoop

SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 11, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, today released 2015 predictions for big data and Apache Hadoop. While the past year brought expansion and education across the Hadoop ecosystem and increased investment in related initiatives, 2015 will be the year of pragmatism as global enterprises turn their focus on getting value from these investments.

“This year proved that every company is in the business of data, building the demand for cost-effective and scalable big data platforms,” said Gary Nakamura, CEO of Concurrent, Inc. “As the market continues to catch up to the hype, 2015 will be the year that Hadoop becomes a worldwide phenomenon. As part of this, expect to see more Hadoop-related acquisitions, IPOs and the rise of new jobs.”

Nakamura offered the following 2015 predictions:

1. A more pragmatic approach to big data will prevail.

   The big data gold rush has been fast and frenzied, leading to more failures and half-baked projects than success. In 2015, enterprises will start to focus on specific problems and finding the right solution. More companies will realize that it is better to invest in proven technologies for specific problems, as there is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to data initiatives.

2. Good old-fashioned MapReduce will dominate production.

   Apache Spark and Apache Tez will be ubiquitous, but traditional MapReduce will dominate production deployments in 2015. Pragmatic enterprises in the business of data will focus on execution, reliability and mitigating risk on the path to success. Enterprises will gravitate toward what is proven and reliable to solve their big data challenges and not necessarily the most popular or state-of-the-art tech on the market.

3. Next year will see the resurrection and rise of the enterprise Java developer.

   As developer tools have matured greatly in the past few years, Java is still firmly planted in enterprise IT shops. Most organizations have a deep enterprise developer bench, and in 2015, we will witness a rise in the importance of the enterprise Java developer. No more super heroes – as clarity in roles and the path to repeatable success becomes more and more evident. Enterprise java developers have the experience and understanding of what it takes to build robust, reliable and maintainable applications. This skillset will become critical for long-term success and sustainability of your enterprise data strategy.

4. The big data “thang” will continue to remain convoluted.

   Sorry to report again this year that the ever-growing big data market will continue to confuse, rather than provide a clear-cut path or guidance on what it is exactly that enterprises should be doing. Those businesses that can separate the wheat from the chaff, and execute upon this valuable knowledge, will be the ones to succeed.

5. 2015 will be a “show me the money” year when it comes to Hadoop.

   Hadoop has been rapidly adopted as “the way” to execute any go-forward data strategy. However, early adopters must now show return on investment, whether its migrating workloads from legacy systems or new data applications  Luckily, products and tools are evolving to keep pace with the trajectory of Hadoop.

6. Elephants will fly – Hadoop will make a push to a worldwide phenomenon.

   Hundreds of thousands of data points reported from the Cascading ecosystem support the notion that Hadoop is rapidly spreading across Europe and Asia and soon in other parts of the world. Therefore, there will be a strong Hadoop adoption next year for enterprises ramping up their data strategy around Hadoop, creating new jobs, and further disrupting the data market worldwide.

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Supporting Resources

• Driven: http://www.cascading.io/driven
• Cascading: http://cascading.org
• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/concurrent-inc.
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/getcascading

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 200,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

Everyone is in the Business of Data; New Release of Driven Delivers Deep Visibility and Insight for Data Applications

 SAN FRANCISCO – Nov. 6, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, today introduced a new version of Driven, the industry’s leading application performance management product for the data-centric enterprise. Driven is purpose-built to address the challenges of enterprise application development and deployment for business-critical data applications, delivering control and performance management for enterprises seeking to achieve operational excellence.

Driven offers enterprise users – developers, operations and line of business – unprecedented visibility into their data applications, providing deep insights, search, segmentation and visualizations for service-level agreement (SLA) management – all while collecting rich operational metadata in a scalable data repository. This allows users to isolate, control, report and manage a broad range of data applications, from the simplest to the most complex data processes. Driven is a proven performance management solution that enterprises can rely on to deliver against their data strategies.

The latest version of Driven introduces:

• Deeper Visualization into Data Apps: Enhanced support allows users to debug, manage, monitor and search applications more effectively and in real time. Users can also track and store complete history of each application’s performance and operational metadata.
• Powerful Search: Fast and rich search capabilities enable users take the guess work out of managing Hadoop applications. Driven provides greater control over managing user data processing. It quickly identifies problematic applications and the associated owners, and finds and compares specific applications with previous iterations to ensure that all applications are meeting SLAs.
• Operational Insights for SLA Management: Users can now visualize all applications over customizable timelines to manage trending application utilization. Driven quickly segments applications by name, user-defined metadata, teams and organizations for deeper insights.
• Segmentation for Greater Manageability: New segmentation support provides greater insights across all applications. Users have the ability to segment applications by tags, names, teams or organization, and easily track for general Hadoop utilization, SLA management or internal/external chargeback.
• Metadata Repository: A scalable, searchable, fine-grained metadata repository easily captures end-to-end visibility of data applications, as well as related data sources, fields and more. By retaining a complete history of applications’ operational telemetry, enterprises can leverage Driven for operational excellence from development to production to compliance-related requirements.
• Integration with Existing Systems: Users can leverage the vast capabilities of Driven and deliver runtime metrics and notifications to existing enterprise monitoring systems.
• Additional Framework Support: In addition to Cascading, Scalding and Cascalog applications, Driven now supports Apache Hive and native MapReduce processes, allowing enterprises to leverage Driven’s capabilities across a wide variety of application frameworks.

Pricing and Availability
Driven is available as a free service on cascading.io and licensable for production use as an annual subscription. Also, Driven will soon be available as an enterprise deployment. Sign up to be notified for when the self-hosted version becomes available.

 Supporting Quotes
“Our developers build applications on Cascading and rely on these applications to run our cloud-based platform for email marketing solutions. With Driven, our developers have unmatched operational visibility and control across all Cascading applications – including real-time monitoring, history and performance tracking over time. We already see the value and promise of Driven, as it’s allowing us to drive differentiation through our data and manage our data applications more efficiently, which, in turn, delivers on our mission to transform email marketing, maximize sales and increase revenue streams for our customers.”
– Johannes Alkjær, lead architect, Mojn

“We remain focused on Driven with this expansion beyond the Cascading ecosystem with the aim to help enterprises make the most of their existing talent and to simplify data project maturity levels – from development through to production. With this release, Driven continues to push the boundaries of operational visibility and performance across Cascading applications and sets a new precedent with new support for Apache projects like Hive.”
-Chris Wensel, founder and CTO, Concurrent, Inc.

Supporting Resources

• Driven: http://www.cascading.io/driven
• Cascading: http://cascading.org
• Company: http://concurrentinc.com
• Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/concurrent-inc.
• YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/getcascading

About Concurrent, Inc.
Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 200,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

Media Contact
Danielle Salvato-Earl
Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
(650) 922-7287
concurrent@kulesafaul.com

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Supreet Oberoi and Ryan Desmond to Deliver Sessions on Cascading and Cascading Lingual at Silicon Valley Code Camp and Big Data TechCon

SAN FRANCISCO – Oct. 7, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, today announced that Ryan Desmond, solutions architect, will present at the ninth annual Silicon Valley Code Camp, taking place Oct. 11-12 in Los Altos Hills, Calif., and Supreet Oberoi, vice president of field engineering, will deliver two sessions at Big Data TechCon, taking place Oct. 27-29 in Burlingame, Calif.

At Silicon Valley Code Camp, Ryan will provide an introduction to Cascading, the most widely used and deployed application development framework for building data-centric applications that enables organizations to operationalize their data and solve business problems.

At Big Data TechCon, Supreet will deliver a talk on how organizations can increase Hadoop utilization with their data warehouses using Cascading Lingual, an open source project that allows users to utilize existing SQL skills to instantly create and run applications on Hadoop. Additionally, Supreet will discuss Cascading and how organizations can leverage the popular application development framework to future-proof big data investments against emerging technologies.

Concurrent Presentations At-A-Glance

Silicon Valley Code Camp
What: “Application Development on Hadoop Using Cascading”
Who: Ryan Desmond, solutions architect, Concurrent, Inc.
When: Sunday, Oct. 12 at 1:15 p.m. PT
How: Register at https://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Account/CreateAccount

Session Description
Cascading is the most widely used and deployed Java-based application development framework for building Big Data applications on Apache Hadoop. This open source, enterprise development framework allows developers to leverage their existing skillsets such as Java, SQL, Scala and more, to create enterprise-grade applications on Apache Hadoop without having to think in MapReduce, or scripting query languages like Pig and Hive. In this session, Ryan will provide an introduction to Cascading and dive into using it to build applications.

Big Data TechCon
What: “Increase Hadoop Utilization With Your Data Warehouse”
Who: Supreet Oberoi, vice president of field engineering, Concurrent, Inc.
When: Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 11:45 a.m. PT
How: Register at http://www.bigdatatechcon.com/registrationdetails.html

Session Description
The Hadoop ecosystem is an effective platform for conducting data-engineering tasks. However, mission-critical BI applications continue to run on traditional data warehouse platforms. In such enterprise use cases, Hadoop is emerging as a technology that augments existing platforms for processing these data-intensive tasks, requiring organizations to not only migrate workloads onto Hadoop for processing, but also extract data for reporting and analysis.

In this session, Supreet will demonstrate how to leverage SQL to improve utilization of Hadoop with existing data sources. Attendees will learn how to utilize Cascading and Cascading Lingual for Big Data application development, how to integrate Hadoop with an enterprise data warehouse through one SQL statement, and how to quickly integrate BI tools with Hadoop.

What: “Future-Proof Your Big Data Investments With Cascading”
Who: Supreet Oberoi, vice president of field engineering, Concurrent, Inc.
When: Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 3:45 p.m. PT
How: Register at http://www.bigdatatechcon.com/registrationdetails.html

Session Description
New computation fabrics with different interfaces and design patterns are continually being introduced into the market. As a result, if companies wish to leverage new innovations in Big Data platforms, they must constantly break and rebuild their operating models to keep up.

In this session, Supreet will discuss how organizations can future-proof Big Data investments against these emerging technologies with Cascading. Supreet will demonstrate how to build applications on emerging fabrics like Tez and Spark with existing skillsets, as well as give a tour of the Cascading community – a robust ecosystem that extends the power of Cascading applications with various integrations, dynamic programming languages and data source connections.

Supporting Resources
● Company: http://concurrentinc.com
● Cascading: http://cascading.org
● Driven: http://www.cascading.io/driven
● Contact us: http://concurrentinc.com/contact
● Twitter: http://twitter.com/concurrent
● LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/concurrent-inc
● YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/getcascading

About Concurrent, Inc.
Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 200,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

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Media Contacts
Danielle Salvato-Earl
Kulesa Faul for Concurrent, Inc.
(650) 922-7287
concurrent@kulesafaul.com