
MapR Hires Channel Chief, CMO for Big Data Partner Push
The new MapR names to know: Channel Chief Geneva Lake and Chief Marketing Officer David Cross. Here’s where the big data & Hadoop provider is heading next.

Hortonworks Hires VCE Channel Chief, Formalizes Partner Program
Hortonworks hires former VCE Channel Chief Chris Sullivan to drive big data and Hadoop partner engagements with ISVs, consultants, resellers, CSPs & MSPs.

5 Channel Partner Updates: 23 Dec 2015
Today’s updates involve CompTIA, Golden Seeds, Female Founders Fund, Siteimprove, MapR, IBM PartnerWorld & so much more.

5 Channel Partner Updates: 21 Dec 2015
Today’s updates involve Kaseya’s CEO; Oracle buys Docker management; Amazon’s IoT platform; record year for acquisitions; SPM counters New Relic & more.

MapR Streams: Will Big Data Partners Dive In?
Big data is pushing fast and furious beyond Hadoop clusters. Next up for MapR Technologies: Streams, a new way to deliver real-time analytics.

5 Channel Partner Updates: 25 Nov 2015
Today’s updates involve a Lenovo channel chief hire — from HP; Meg Whitman’s next move; MapR and Hadoop channel training; an IT certification hack & more.

The State of Hadoop for Big Data Partners and Data Scientists
ChannelE2E meetings at Strata+Hadoop World NY — with MemSQL, MapR, Trifacta and Hortonworks — reveal the state of big data in the IT channel.