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Concurrent, Inc. to Present at DataWeek + API World 2014

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Supreet Oberoi to Deliver Sessions on Using Cascading to Build Applications for IoT, and Creating Complex Machine Scoring Applications with Cascading Pattern

SAN FRANCISCO – Sept. 10, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, today announced that Supreet Oberoi, vice president of field engineering, will deliver two sessions at the third annual DataWeek + API World 2014, taking place Sept. 16-17 in San Francisco. This two-day conference and expo is the largest event for engineers and executives to discuss the role of data and API innovation on business, technology and society.

As the Internet of Things (IoT) gains momentum, and the number of connected devices exponentially increases, so too, does the generation of Big Data. However, with the vast troves of complex Big Data being generated by these connected devices, the IoT is becoming less of a mega trend and more of a mega data problem.

At DataWeek + API World 2014, Supreet will deliver a talk on Cascading, the most widely used and deployed application development framework for building data-driven applications, and how it supports the convergence of IoT and Big Data. Additionally, Supreet will speak on Cascading Pattern, a standards-based scoring engine that leverages Cascading and enables data scientists to use large amounts of small data produced by smart devices and run predictive data models at scale.

Concurrent Presentations At-A-Glance

What: “Using Cascading to Build Data-Driven Applications for the Internet of Things”
Who: Supreet Oberoi, vice president of field engineering, Concurrent, Inc.
When: Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 10:45 a.m. PT
How: Register at http://dataweek.co/register

Session Description
With affordable Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) manufacturing economics, and the networking protocols solving the kinks to connect low-powered devices, we are on the verge of unleashing the promise of ubiquitous computing with the Internet of Things. However, data-driven applications built to provide context and awareness for these new use cases will have their own unique constraints. While these applications will have to adapt to the optimal technologies of today, they must also be prepared to quickly leverage new innovations in analytics as – and when – they come.

In this session, Supreet will discuss the challenges in mining machine data, and how the Cascading development framework can be used to build data applications – ultimately fulfilling all constraints with IoT applications.

What: “Data Science at Scale! Creating Complex Machine Scoring Applications with Cascading Pattern”
Who: Supreet Oberoi, vice president of field engineering, Concurrent, Inc.
When: Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 4 p.m. PT
How: Register at http://dataweek.co/register

Session Description
Cascading Pattern is an open source project that takes models trained in popular analytics frameworks, such as SAS, Microstrategy, SQL Server, etc., and runs them at scale on Apache Hadoop. With Pattern, developers can use a Java API to create complex machine learning applications, such as recommenders or fraud detection. Pattern effectively lowers the barrier of adoption to Apache Hadoop for developers because developers can use existing skill sets to immediately begin building these complex applications.

In this presentation, Supreet will provide sample code that will show applications using predictive models built in SAS and R, such as anti-fraud classifiers. Additionally, Supreet will compare variations of models for enterprise-class customer experiments.

About the Speaker
Bringing more than 20 years of enterprise software experience in successfully developing transformative information technologies, Supreet Oberoi is vice president of field engineering for Concurrent, Inc.

Previously, Supreet served as Big Data technical evangelist and director of Big Data technical delivery for American Express. Combining business acumen with technical insights and strong execution skills, he developed reference architectures and new enterprise-level capabilities with the Hadoop stack using Map Reduce, HBase, Hive, Solr, Mahout, sqoop and many proprietary “big data” technologies. Prior to American Express, Supreet held several vice president, director and senior-level positions at Agile Software, oneREV, Oracle and RTI.

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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 175,000 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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Concurrent, Inc. and Elasticsearch, Inc. Team Up to Accelerate Data Application Deployment

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Enterprises Can Now Use Cascading and Elasticsearch to Accelerate Time to Market for Data Products that Require Reliable and Scalable Data Processing and Powerful Search and Analytics Capabilities

SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ALTOS, Calif. – July 31, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, and Elasticsearch, Inc., provider of an end-to-end real-time search and analytics stack, today announced a partnership to accelerate the time to market for Hadoop-based enterprise data applications.

Enterprises seeking to make the most out of their Big Data can now easily build applications with Cascading that read and write directly to Elasticsearch, a search and analytics engine that makes data available for search and analysis in a matter of seconds. Once data is in Elasticsearch, users can also take advantage of Kibana, Elasticsearch’s data visualization tool, to generate pie charts, bar graphs, scatter plots and histograms that allow them to easily explore and extract insights from their data.

As enterprises continue to heavily invest in the building of data-centric applications to connect business strategy to data, they need a reliable and repeatable way to consistently deliver data products to customers. With more than 175,000 downloads a month, Cascading is the enterprise development framework of choice and has become the de-facto standard for building data-centric applications. With a proven framework and support for various computation fabrics, Cascading enables enterprises to leverage existing skillsets, investments and systems to deliver on the promise of Big Data.

Download the open source extension at http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/hadoop/.

Supporting Quotes
“As a Big Data developer, author, and previous engineer and cloud architect, I’m committed to using, knowing and writing about the best technologies that benefit businesses and customers. As a user of both Elasticsearch and Cascading, I’m excited to see this partnership take place and see the great technologies that will integrate and emerge from this collaboration.”
– Antonios Chalkiopoulos, author of “Programming MapReduce with Scalding”

“We’re on a mission to make massive amounts of data usable for businesses everywhere, so it’s no surprise that we’re teaming up with Concurrent, a company that’s leading the way in Big Data application infrastructure for the enterprise. Now, when developers use Cascading to build Hadoop-based applications, they can easily utilize Elasticsearch to instantly query and analyze their data, allowing them to provide a fast and robust search experience, as well as gain valuable insights.”
– Shay Banon, co-founder and CTO, Elasticsearch, Inc.

“We continue to set the industry standard for building data applications. Bringing the power of Elasticsearch for fast, distributed, data search and analytics together with Cascading reflects our common goal – faster time to value in the deployment of data-centric applications. This is a feature our customers have been asking for, and we expect tremendous response from the community.”
– Chris Wensel, founder and CTO, Concurrent, Inc.

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About Elasticsearch, Inc.
Elasticsearch is on a mission to make massive amounts of data usable for businesses everywhere by delivering the world’s most advanced search and analytics engine. With a laser focus on achieving the best user experience imaginable, the Elasticsearch ELK stack – comprised of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana – has become one of the most popular and rapidly growing open source solutions in the market. Used by thousands of enterprises in virtually every industry today, Elasticsearch, Inc. provides production support, development support and training for the full ELK stack.

Elasticsearch, Inc. was founded in 2012 by the people behind the Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene open source projects. Since its initial release, Elasticsearch has more than 10 million cumulative downloads. Elasticsearch, Inc. is backed by Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and NEA, with headquarters in Amsterdam and Los Altos, California, and offices around the world.

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 175,000 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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Concurrent, Inc. Announces General Availability of Driven, the Industry’s First Application Performance Management Product for Big Data Applications

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Driven Delivers Operational Visibility and Control for Enterprise Big Data Applications to Reach Production Faster

SAN FRANCISCO – June 24, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise data application platform company, today announced the general availability of Driven, the industry’s first application performance management product for data-centric applications. Driven is purpose-built to address the pain points of enterprise application development and application performance management to organizations who need to deliver operational excellence, enabling businesses to make the most from their data.

Unveiled in early February as a beta, Driven gives developers and operators unmatched visibility into their data applications in real-time, so that they can isolate, manage and resolve problems immediately to accelerate application development. The end results are stable, highly reliable applications that enterprises can depend on to deliver against their data strategies. Driven is designed to give developers and operators a 10x boost in productivity across the application lifecycle.

With Driven, enterprises can now gain comprehensive visibility across their data-centric applications and have the ability to:

  • Visualize data applications in real-time
  • Diagnose application failures immediately
  • Optimize for application performance
  • Collaborate in teams across the same applications
  • Track application history

Driven is a free service on cascading.io and is licensable for production use as an annual subscription. Driven is easily enabled through a plugin, which seamlessly collects runtime data directly from any Cascading application. Cascading is the platform of choice for the development and deployment of Big Data applications with more than 150,000 monthly downloads and 7,000 deployments. Together, Cascading and Driven deliver a one-two punch to knock out the complexity in Big Data application development. To request a quote for a production license, please contact sales@concurrentinc.com.

Supporting Quotes
“Driven’s priorities, capabilities and feature sets are squarely focused on delivering value to our users, so that they can deliver their projects to production faster and easier. With the availability of Driven, developers now have unmatched visibility across all Cascading applications, including those built with Cascading dynamic programming languages, such as Scalding, Cascalog, Lingual and Pattern. Driven is a remarkable step forward in delivering on the full promise of connecting businesses with their data.”
-Chris Wensel, founder and CTO, Concurrent, Inc.

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About Concurrent, Inc.
Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in Big 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 150,000 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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Orzota Partners with Concurrent, Inc. to Deliver Big Data Applications

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Managing and Delivering Enterprise Hadoop Solutions Powered by Cascading

SUNNYVALE, CA. – Jun. 3, 2014 – Orzota, Inc., a Big Data solutions company, today announced a strategic partnership with Concurrent, Inc., to accelerate the development of big data solutions for its clients. Concurrent is the company behind Cascading, the most widely used application development framework for building data applications. Orzota’s customers can now benefit from a big data solution that includes a powerful, robust, enterprise-grade development framework.

By joining forces with Concurrent, Orzota strengthens its ability to implement big data solutions with Cascading’s power to simplify big data application development. With Orzota’s expertise in designing and building big data applications using the right set of technologies, the addition of Cascading, represents a further expansion of its toolbox.

Orzota helps customers create a sound big data strategy and a robust, scalable big data architecture. Orzota has implemented solutions for Fortune 500 companies, enabling new business insights from their data assets. Orzota’s Big Data Management Platform and tools help speed up deployments, reducing cost and complexity. With the Concurrent partnership, customers can now benefit from a fully supported Cascading framework to accelerate the time to market for their data applications.

“We are excited to partner with Concurrent and add Cascading to the list of technologies we specialize in. This will help reduce the development time of enterprise Hadoop applications for our clients,” said Orzota founder and CEO, Shanti Subramanyam.

“Concurrent is committed to simplifying data application development so that enterprises can make the most of their data.” said Gary Nakamura, CEO of Concurrent, Inc. “We look forward to working with Orzota to further our mission, by bringing the power of Cascading to their customers’ data-driven applications.”

About Orzota, Inc.

Orzota, Inc. is a technology-enabled big data solutions company. Orzota provides a variety of services powered by the Orzota Big Data Management Platform to help businesses accelerate their big data deployments and gain insights from their data. Contact us for more information.

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in Big 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 CascadingTM, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 150,000 user downloads a month.

Concurrent, Inc. Closes $10 Million in Series B Funding for Big Data App Infrastructure

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Market Leader Continues Customer and Corporate Momentum, Adds Board Member and Additional Funding to Drive Product Development and Operational Capabilities

SAN FRANCISCO – June 2, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise data application platform company, today announced $10 million in Series B funding, further validating the company’s leadership in enterprise application development. New investor Bain Capital Ventures led the funding round, with the participation of existing investors Rembrandt Ventures and True Ventures. Concurrent will use the financing to drive research and development of its flagship product Driven, the industry’s first application performance management product for data-centric applications, and Cascading, the most widely used application development framework for building data-oriented applications. Concurrent will also scale its operations to meet growing customer demand.

Enterprises are rapidly adopting Hadoop. With it, comes the increasing demand to quickly operationalize their data and delivery of data products to their customers. Concurrent enables organizations to quickly build, deploy and manage data-centric applications to meet the growing demands of the business.

Concurrent leads the market in Big Data application infrastructure with Cascading and Driven. With Cascading at the core, Concurrent continues to meet customer demand for advanced enterprise application development by supporting emerging fabrics and technologies, forging important industry partnerships and making data-driven application development simpler, faster and smarter.

Concurrent’s recent corporate, customer and product milestones include:

  • Driven, the company’s flagship enterprise product, purpose built to address the pain points of enterprise data application development and data application performance management by providing unprecedented visibility and control to organizations who need to deliver operational excellence.
  • Cascading 3.0, extends the de facto standard in data application infrastructure technology. Cascading sets the standard for enterprise application development, and delivers a framework that allows enterprises to build their data applications once and provides the flexibility to deploy them on the data processing fabric that best meets their business needs.
  • Cascading surpassed more than 150,000+ user downloads per month.
  • New and expanded strategic partnerships with Hortonworks, Rackspace, EPAM and Databricks.
  • Leadership expansion with the appointment of Supreet Oberoi as vice president of field engineering to support accelerated customer and product growth.
  • Inclusion in CRN’s Big Data 100 in the “Big Data Infrastructure Tools and Services” and “Emerging Big Data Vendors” categories.
  • Recognition by the SD Times editors for the publication’s annual SD Times 100 in the “Big Data and Business Intelligence” category.

In conjunction with today’s funding news, Concurrent also announced that Salil Deshpande has joined its board of directors. Salil is managing director at Bain Capital Ventures and focuses on software infrastructure, open source and enterprise software. He also co-heads the new Palo Alto office, which has made 20 new investments in the last two years. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Salil spent seven years as general partner at Bay Partners, and over the last eight years has invested $120 million into 26 companies, including Typesafe, Aria Systems, MuleSoft, Buddy Media, SpringSource, Groovy and Grails, DataStax, Lending Club, Engine Yard, Dynatrace, ZeroTurnaround, Hazelcast, Iron.io and Redis Labs. Salil is on the Forbes Midas List for 2013 and 2014.

Supporting Quotes

“Concurrent continues to propel innovation forward and exemplifies just the type of company Bain Capital Ventures looks to invest in – a business at the forefront of a hot market, with a uniquely developed, defined and widely adopted technology, and a highly seasoned executive team that understands how to best serve the enterprise application infrastructure market. The growth opportunity is huge, and I look forward to serving on the company’s board to contribute to Concurrent’s future direction and growth.”
-Salil Deshpande, managing director, Bain Capital Ventures

“Our investors’ confidence in Concurrent and this latest round of funding supports our strategy and proven leadership in providing Big Data application infrastructure to enterprises. Recognizing the maturing needs of the enterprise and emergence of new technologies, we are giving organizations the application development tools and management products they need to deliver today and in the future. This funding will not only enable us to drive our R&D execution, but will also allow us to expand operational capabilities to support our rapidly expanding user and customer base.”
-Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

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About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in Big 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 150,000 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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Concurrent, Inc. and Databricks Partner to Make Enterprise Data Application Development Simpler, Faster, Smarter

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Strategic Partnership Answers Customer Demand by Bringing Together Leading Open Source Platforms – Cascading and Apache Spark

SAN FRANCISCO and BERKELEY – May 13, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise data application platform company, and Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, today announced a strategic partnership to enable Cascading to seamlessly operate over Spark, a next generation Big Data processing engine that supports batch, interactive and streaming workloads at scale. This partnership will enable both companies to meet customer demand for simpler and more flexible enterprise application development and give the thousands of enterprises using Cascading the ability to leverage Spark, which is now a part of all major Hadoop distributions, and also available from enterprise database and NoSQL vendors.

While enterprises are heavily investing in building data-centric applications to operationalize their data, these data applications must be able to meet business requirements that vary in latency, scale and service levels. To meet these requirements, enterprises are leveraging Spark’s unique in-memory computing capabilities and full breadth of functionality to deliver the necessary speed and sophistication required for data processing at scale.

Enterprises looking to run their data applications on Spark will be able to leverage Cascading, the proven framework that simplifies enterprise application development. With more than 150,000 downloads a month, Cascading is the enterprise development framework of choice for building data-centric applications, and can soon be utilized to build robust data applications and deploy them at scale on Spark. This ability provides enterprises the flexibility to easily adapt their data applications to meet business challenges and solve a variety of business problems ranging from simple to complex, regardless of latency or scale.

Concurrent and Databricks are empowering enterprises to simplify their data application development, while providing the flexibility and performance benefits of Spark. Developers can leverage Cascading’s framework for robust, easy and seamless application development with Spark’s execution engine for maximum performance and versatility. These benefits extend to any Cascading-based dynamic programming language, including Scalding, Cascalog, Lingual, Pattern and Driven. With Driven, enterprises will gain operational visibility to their data applications running on Spark, accelerating the time to market for their applications.

Cascading will add Spark support in the near future and both are freely licensable under the Apache 2.0 License Agreement. For more information and notification of availability please visit us at http://www.cascading.org/spark-support.

Supporting Quotes

“As the open source Hadoop community has evolved, Spark has emerged as a key addition to the burgeoning ecosystem of frameworks that provide application builders new ways to generate insight from the large volumes of data in the enterprise. Cloudera, the first commercial distribution to provide support for Spark, is excited to see the addition of Spark to Cascading and Driven, key technologies used by enterprise application developers. With the partnership of Concurrent and Cloudera, and certification of Cascading on CDH 5, Cloudera customers can rely on building highly scalable applications on top of the Concurrent platform.”
-Jairam Ranganathan, Director of Product, Cloudera

“One of our primary goals is to drive broad adoption of Spark and ensure a great experience for users. By partnering with Concurrent, all the developers who already use Cascading will be able to deploy their applications on Spark, while Spark users benefit from direct access to all of the benefits of Cascading and Driven. We are committed to open source and partnering with proven market leaders like Concurrent to drive new growth and innovation in the Big Data community.”
-Ion Stoica, CEO, Databricks

“New business problems demand applications that can connect business and data. As the community gets serious about building data applications, we’re supporting the emergence of new fabrics to give users maximum choice and flexibility in building and deploying their Big Data apps. Concurrent continues to set the industry standard for building data applications and Databricks is an ideal partner to extend the adoption and contribute to the core functionality of Cascading and Driven.”
-Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

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About Databricks
Databricks is using cutting-edge technology based on years of research to build next-generation software for analyzing and extracting value from data. Its founders created Apache Spark and Shark, and are deeply committed to open source. Based in Berkeley, California, Databricks is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz.

About Concurrent, Inc.
Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in Big 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 150,000 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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Concurrent, Inc. Leads the Market for Data-Driven Enterprise Application Development

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New Cascading 3.0 supports multiple data processing fabrics for running enterprise data applications at the speed of business

SAN FRANCISCO – May 13, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise data application platform company, today announced product and corporate momentum securing the company’s leadership in enterprise application development. The company recently announced strategic industry partnerships with Hortonworks and Databricks, as well as new product innovation with the introduction of Driven, the industry’s first application performance management product for data-centric applications. Today Concurrent also introduced the next version of Cascading, the most widely used application development framework for building data applications on technologies like Apache Hadoop.

Enterprises have always been operationalizing their data. But as business needs continue to change and new technologies – such as Apache Hadoop and now Apache Tez – emerge, organizations need a reliable way to quickly build and consistently deliver these data products. This requires leveraging existing skill sets, while meeting new requirements (i.e. latency, scale, service level agreements) supported by these emerging technologies.

Cascading 3.0 Sets the Standard for Enterprise Application Development

With more than 150,000 user downloads a month, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Supported by key strategic partnerships with Hortonworks and Databricks, and broad support with all major Hadoop distributions, Cascading is the enterprise development framework of choice for data-centric applications. Cascading accelerates and simplifies enterprise application development, and meets a variety of enterprise use cases, from simple to complex.

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

  • Cascading 3.0 provides the most comprehensive data application framework to meet business challenges and solve a variety of business problems ranging from simple to complex, regardless of latency or scale.
  • Cascading 3.0 allows enterprises to build their data applications once, while providing the flexibility to run applications on the fabric that best meets their business needs.
  • Cascading 3.0 will ship with support for: local in-memory, Apache MapReduce, and Apache Tez.
  • Soon thereafter, with community support, Apache Spark™, Apache Storm and others will be supported through its new pluggable and customizable query planner.
  • Third party products, data applications, frameworks and dynamic programming languages built on Cascading will immediately benefit from this portability.
  • Cascading offers compatibility with all major Hadoop vendors and service providers: Altiscale, Amazon EMR, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Intel, MapR and Qubole, among others.

Concurrent is leading the market in Big Data application infrastructure with Cascading and Driven. With Cascading at the core, Concurrent continues to meet customer demand for advanced enterprise application development by supporting emerging fabrics and technologies, forging important industry partnerships and making data-driven application development simpler, faster and smarter.

Supporting Quotes

“As a partner, we welcome Concurrent’s contributions to further expand the Hadoop ecosystem by enabling faster development and deployment of data-centric applications on 100-percent open source Hadoop. Together we can help our customers adapt to evolving business needs and derive even more value from their Big Data solutions.”
-John Kreisa, vice president of strategic marketing, Hortonworks

“I’m proud to see how Cascading has enabled thousands of developers and businesses to be successful at what they do. Cascading 3.0 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 will be available early summer 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.

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About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in Big 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 150,000 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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Concurrent, Inc. and Hortonworks Join Forces to Advance Enterprise Data Application Development on Hadoop

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Leading Big Data Companies Simplify Enterprise Development for Rich Data-Centric Applications

SAN FRANCISCO and PALO ALTO, Calif. – April 21, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise data application platform company, and Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today expanded their strategic partnership to simplify enterprise application development for data-centric applications. The Cascading SDK will now be integrated and delivered with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). In addition, Hortonworks will certify, support and deliver Cascading™, the most widely used application development framework for data applications on Hadoop.

As enterprise adoption of Hadoop continues to rise, users are looking to reliably operationalize their data. This brings a new set of challenges for enterprises – ranging from leveraging developer best practices, data application scalability and data systems integration. The Concurrent and Hortonworks partnership underscores the timely importance of simplifying enterprise application development for these new data-centric applications.

Concurrent and Hortonworks Expand Strategic and Technical Partnership

Concurrent and Hortonworks share a deep commitment to accelerating Hadoop adoption across the enterprise, empowering developers to quickly build rich data-centric enterprise applications on Hadoop. The partnership benefits users by combining the robustness and simplicity of Cascading with the reliability and stability of Hortonworks Data Platform.

As part of today’s news, Hortonworks will certify, support and deliver the Cascading SDK with HDP. Hortonworks’ commitment to the Cascading community and users extends beyond redistribution of the Cascading SDK, also guaranteeing the ongoing compatibility of Cascading-based applications across future releases of HDP with continuous compatibility testing and direct HDP customer support for Cascading.

Upcoming releases of Cascading will also support Apache Tez. Tez is a significant development in the Hadoop ecosystem, enabling projects to meet demands for faster response times and delivering near real-time big data processing. Tez is a general data-processing fabric and MapReduce replacement that provides a powerful framework for executing a complex topology of tasks. In addition, Tez executes on top of Apache™ Hadoop® YARN, a sub-project of Hadoop which separates resource management and processing components. YARN fundamentally enables a broader array of interaction patterns for data stored in HDFS beyond MapReduce and makes Hadoop 2.0 a more general data processing platform.

In addition, thousands of companies that already use Cascading, Lingual, Scalding or Cascalog, or any other dynamic programming language APIs and frameworks built on top of Cascading, have the flexibility to seamlessly migrate to newer versions of HDP that support Apache Tez, with zero investment required to take advantage of this improved processing environment.

To learn more about how Concurrent and Hortonworks accelerate big data application development with Cascading and HDP, register for a joint webinar, taking place Tuesday, April 22 at 10 a.m. PDT, by visiting http://hortonworks.com/webinars.

Supporting Quotes

“Hadoop unleashes insight and value from enterprise data as a core component of the modern data architecture, integrating with and complementing existing systems. By expanding our alliance with Concurrent and integrating with the Cascading application platform, Hortonworks’ customers can now drive even more value from their enterprise data by enabling the rapid development of data-driven applications.”

-John Kreisa, vice president of strategic marketing, Hortonworks

“As more enterprises realize they are in the business of data, the need for simple, powerful tools for big data application development is a must-have to survive in today’s competitive climate. Our deepened relationship with Hortonworks furthers our commitment to Hadoop and drives new innovation around the development of enterprise data applications.”

-Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

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Further reading

About Hortonworks

Hortonworks develops, distributes and supports the only 100% open source Apache Hadoop data platform. Our team comprises the largest contingent of builders and architects within the Hadoop ecosystem who represent and lead the broader enterprise requirements within these communities.

The Hortonworks Data Platform provides an open platform that deeply integrates with existing IT investments and upon which enterprises can build and deploy Hadoop-based applications.

Hortonworks has deep relationships with the key strategic data center partners that enable our customers to unlock the broadest opportunities from Hadoop.

For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in Big 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 150,000 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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Concurrent, Inc. Adds Vice President of Field Engineering to Support Accelerated Customer and Product Growth

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Former American Express Big Data Evangelist Joins the Ranks of the Enterprise Software Company Behind Cascading™ and Driven

SAN FRANCISCO – April 2, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced the appointment of Supreet Oberoi as vice president of field engineering. In response to increasing customer and user demand, as well as massive growth in enterprise data applications, Oberoi will lead the company’s efforts to deploy and operationalize its commercial offerings, which include products, support and professional services.

Oberoi brings 20 years of enterprise software experience, joining Concurrent from American Express where he served as Big Data technical evangelist and director of Big Data technical delivery. Combining business acumen with technical insight, he developed reference architectures and new enterprise-level capabilities, such as operational visibility, governance, compliance, data management and quality with the Apache Hadoop™ stack using many Big Data technologies. In addition, he developed groundbreaking capabilities in fraud, risk and marketing on the Big Data platform. Prior to American Express, Oberoi held several vice president, director and senior-level positions at Agile Software, oneREV, Oracle and RTI.

Oberoi joins a seasoned leadership team that includes Concurrent CEO Gary Nakamura, and Chris Wensel, founder, CTO and API author of Cascading™, the most widely used and deployed technology for Big Data applications with more than 150,000 downloads a month. Oberoi’s appointment follows the company’s recent announcement of Driven, the industry’s first application performance management product for Big Data applications – purpose-built to address the pain points of enterprise application development and application performance management on Hadoop.

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“As we accelerate growth and operationalize our commercial product, Driven, it becomes critical to have the market expertise, wisdom and counsel of a veteran leadership team. Supreet’s extensive Big Data experience and first-hand knowledge from the trenches of several high-growth technology companies makes him a key addition to our leadership team at this point in the company’s evolution.”

-Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

“Hadoop continues to be the fabric of choice for tackling Big Data, yet the need for it to easily integrate with existing systems creates a barrier to mass adoption. Further, Hadoop traditionally represents a black box, where it’s difficult to understand exactly what’s going on. I look forward to joining Concurrent at such a pivotal time for the company as we continue to develop products and solutions, such as Cascading and Driven, that provide visibility and manageability to the Hadoop black box.”

-Supreet Oberoi, Vice President of Field Engineering, Concurrent, Inc.

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About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. delivers the #1 application development platform for Big Data applications. Concurrent builds application infrastructure products that are designed to help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale on Apache Hadoop™.

Concurrent is the team behind Cascading™, the most widely used and deployed technology for Big Data applications with more than 150,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including Twitter, eBay, The Climate Corp and Etsy, 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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Concurrent, Inc. Enhances Mass Enterprise Big Data Adoption with Intel® Data Platform

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Cascading Certified Compatible with Intel Data Platform to Deliver Powerful, Secure Big Data Application Development on Hadoop

SAN FRANCISCO – March 26, 2014 – Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced its compatibility with the Intel® Data Platform. The move combines the power of Cascading, the most widely used and deployed application platform for building robust enterprise Big Data applications on Hadoop, with all the performance, manageability and security features of the Intel Data Platform to drive powerful, reliable enterprise Big Data application development on Apache™ Hadoop®.

As enterprises continue to rapidly adopt Hadoop to manage, drive and leverage insights into data sets, there is an ever-growing need for a cost-effective, scalable Big Data platform for easily building data-centric applications. With its intuitive API, Cascading fulfills this mission-critical need by allowing developers to leverage existing skillsets, investments and systems to build enterprise-class applications on Hadoop. With more than 150,000 downloads a month, Cascading is compatible with all popular Hadoop distributions, including Hadoop 2 and YARN.

As Hadoop applications leverage an enterprise’s most valuable asset – its data, a secure infrastructure is crucial. Enter the Intel Data Platform, which incorporates and builds on an open source software platform to provide distributed processing and data management for enterprise applications analyzing massive amounts of diverse data. Built from ‘the silicon up,’ the Intel Data Platform features up to 30x boost in Hadoop performance with hardware-enabled encryption, along with networking and IO optimizations that ensure maximized performance for Big Data deployments.

This certification offers the right fit for businesses seeking to make the most of their Big Data by combining the productivity benefits of Cascading with the security, performance and manageability advantages of Intel Data Platform. As more and more businesses find themselves in the business of data, Cascading with the Intel Data Platform represents another leap forward for enterprise Big Data professionals to tap into the Big Data gold mine.

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“The Intel Data Platform provides a platform for Big Data professionals to conduct secure, simple and quick next-generation analytics on massive amounts of data. The combination of the Intel Data Platform with Cascading offers customers a foundation for businesses to realize the transformational opportunity of their Big Data.”

-Jobi George, Director of Big Data Software Product & Channels, Intel’s Datacenter Software Division

“Today’s announcement demonstrates Concurrent’s continued mission of making enterprise data application development easy for the masses and enabling businesses to operationalize their data. Now our users can rely on the Intel Data Platform’s next-generation analytics and secure infrastructure combined with all the power and benefits of Cascading to drive business differentiation.”

-Gary Nakamura, CEO, Concurrent, Inc.

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About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. delivers the #1 application development platform for Big Data applications. Concurrent builds application infrastructure products that are designed to help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale on Apache Hadoop™.

Concurrent is the team behind Cascading™, the most widely used and deployed technology for Big Data applications with more than 150,000+ user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including Twitter, eBay, The Climate Corp and Etsy, 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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