MapR Technologies Introduces Free Sandbox for Hadoop, giving Developers the Fastest On-Ramp to Hadoop

MapR Technologies, Inc., the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, recently announced availability of the MapRSandbox for Hadoop, a virtualized environment containing MapR's leading distribution for Apache Hadoop. The MapRSandbox enables users to begin exploring and experimenting with Hadoop in less than five minutes by providing a complete and fully-configured virtual machine installation of the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop along with several point-and-click tutorials for developers, analysts and administrators.

MapR Sandbox includes the ability to drag-and-drop files from any source into the MapR Sandbox and facilitates:

- Training - through access to the MapRSandbox's extensive training modules, developers and administrators can quickly get up to speed on Hadoop.

- Development - by enabling developers to build applications in a simple, light weight virtual machine (VM) that can run on any laptop or desktop environment, MapR saves time and development resources.

- Testing - with the ability to run quick tests to validate functionality and configurations before deploying on a production cluster, MapR provides productivity advantages and supports portable applications that move to production environments with no code changes.

"In the Indian context, training for Hadoop users in handling big data is a challenge since the data analytics market is still in a nascent stage. With the release of MapRSandbox, developers, administrators and analysts can start exploring and experimenting with Hadoop in less than five minutes in a complete and fully-configured virtual machine installation", said Shankar Murukutla, sales director for ASEAN/India, MapR Technologies."

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