MapR Technologies Senior Principal Technologist to Present at the Upcoming 7x24 Conference

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 7, 2012) - MapR Technologies, Inc., the provider of the open, enterprise-grade distribution for Apache Hadoop, announced today that Senior Principal Technologist Keys Botzum will be a featured speaker at the 7x24 Conference: Thought Leadership, taking place on June 10 - 13, 2012 at the Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, in Orlando, Florida.

The session entitled: "Big Data: The Changes that will Reshape Your Data Center," will be held on Monday, June 11 at 3:00 p.m. ET. Mr. Botzum will discuss how the Big Data frameworks, including Hadoop and NoSQL are being used by organizations today to handle fast-growing data with unprecedented scalability at a fraction of the cost. He will provide insights about which application types are providing the fastest returns, where to start and how to integrate Big Data applications into an existing cloud infrastructure and what it means for data center architectures going forward.

Mr. Botzum has over 15 years of experience in large scale distributed system design and has worked with a variety of distributed technologies, including Sun RPC, DCE, CORBA, Java EE, AFS, and DFS. Recently, he has been focusing on Hadoop and related technologies.

Visit: http://www.7x24exchange.org/conferences.html for more information on the 7x24 Conference.

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