MapR may shut down as investor pulls out after ‘extremely poor results’

MapR Technologies Inc., one of the troika of unicorn startups that emerged from the early days of the big-data movement, may cut up to 122 jobs and shut down its Santa Clara, California headquarters if it can’t secure additional funding. MapR was one of three well-funded startups – along with Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. — that emerged a decade ago to commercialize products and services around the open-source ecosystem around Hadoop, a popular software framework for processing huge amounts of data. If you like the reporting, video interviews and other ad-free content here, please take a moment to check out a sample of the video content supported by our sponsors, tweet your support, and keep coming back to SiliconANGLE.

Source: siliconangle.com