PRESS RELEASE:
Innovative Hadoop data platform enables Pico to grow and develop new financial data service offerings for clients in the global capital markets community
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 29, 2015–
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop® that integrates web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database capabilities, today announced that Pico, a provider of multi-asset electronic trading technologies, is using the MapR Distribution including Hadoop to extend its analytical data service offerings for customers in the global capital markets community. Leveraging a growing amount of both traditional and non-traditional types of financial data, Pico will rely on the scale, speed and ease of use from the MapR platform to offer innovative new technology solutions and provide real-time data analysis to their clients.
Increasing demand from clients for expanded data analytic capabilities and the growing volumes of data in use were some of the driving factors that led Pico to evaluate the underlying technology. In order to leverage a wide range of historic and current data, including market, transactional and informational sources, Pico needed a scalable and highly available data platform that could lower storage costs and also support its existing environment.
“Pico is all about innovation and we believe that the MapR dedication to high availability, disaster recovery, security and full data protection fits perfectly with our requirements to serve a global market,” said Paul Cassell, chief information officer at Pico. “MapR will play a key role in our data center and IT operations as we expand our services with greater scale and performance and provide our clients with many customized Hadoop offerings.”
Using MapR, Pico can analyze massive amounts and types of data in real time; accelerate the speed of analysis, while increasing data volume; and improve risk assessment by building sophisticated machine learning models. Due to the innovative architecture at the core of the MapR data platform, Pico is able to leverage the versatility of plug-and-play compatibility with Hadoop for additional data analysis and application capabilities.
“Pico provides infrastructure, integration management and software solutions to a very diverse financial services client base,” said Jack Norris, chief marketing officer, MapR Technologies. “Their use of the MapR Distribution in this demanding environment is a tremendous endorsement of our enterprise-grade platform. We look forward to working with Pico as they continue to grow and expand.”
Please be sure to attend the Big Data Everywhere conference in New York on Wednesday, November 4th at 11:45am EST. Pico’s CIO, Paul Cassell, and Director of Corporate Development, Dan Bartucci, will present, “The Transformational Influence of Big Data in the Global Capital Markets.”
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About Pico
Pico is a group of affiliated companies that offer premium technology solutions and fully managed services which specialize in trading technology. Pico provides technology hosting across 14 global data centers and market data solutions across asset classes. Pico clients have the ability to connect to over 30 exchanges and over 140 venues. Specifically, Pico Quantitative Trading LLC is an agency-only U.S. broker-dealer that specializes in providing services to multi-asset electronic trading clients, and is a member of FINRA, SIPC and the NFA. Pico Consulting is the consulting division of SpryWare, LLC. To learn more, visit: picotrading.com.
About MapR Technologies
MapR provides the industry’s only big data platform that combines the processing power of the top-ranked Hadoop with web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database capabilities, enabling customers to harness the enormous power of their data. Organizations with the most demanding production needs, including sub-second response for fraud prevention, secure and highly available data-driven insights for better healthcare, petabyte analysis for threat detection, and integrated operational and analytic processing for improved customer experiences, run on MapR. A majority of customers achieve payback in fewer than 12 months and realize greater than 5X ROI. MapR ensures customer success through world-class professional services and with free on-demand training that 40,000 developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big data skills gap. Amazon, Cisco, Google, HP, SAP, and Teradata are part of the worldwide MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook
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