Datameer Releases Major New Version of Analytics Platform

SAN MATEO, Calif., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Datameer, Inc. (www.datameer.com), a provider of end-user analytics solutions built on Apache Hadoop, today announced the general availability of Version 1.4 of the Datameer solution.  Datameer 1.4 adds major new functionality in the areas of data management including partitioning, user and data security as well as expanded support for data source adaptors and support for new versions of Hadoop from Cloudera and IBM.

"This release is our most ambitious engineering effort since Version 1.0 and was driven primarily by input from our customers," commented Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer.  "Our innovations in data partitioning, multi-way joins, user and data security and support for new Hadoop distributions from Cloudera and IBM keep both Datameer and our customers at the leading edge of Hadoop-based business intelligence."

"The new features in Datameer 1.4 demonstrate that Datameer is committed to delivering what customers want with an emphasis on quality and ease of use," stated David Cornell, Software Development Manager at SophosLabs. "We are particularly excited to see support for partitioning which will dramatically enhance report generation performance."

"Attributor's original selection of Datameer was driven by our need to quickly provide analytics to our clients," said Matt Robison, President and COO at Attributor. "This new release continues Datameer's ease-of-use innovation especially in the areas of data partitioning and security and we are looking forward to leveraging the new functionality in our work."

Datameer is the first and only packaged analytics solution for Apache Hadoop.  Designed to help business users and data analysts integrate, analyze and visualize structured and unstructured data, Datameer combines the linear scalability and dramatic cost-effectiveness of Hadoop with complete, packaged analytics functionality.

Complete details of the new Datameer Version 1.4 are available here. 

For more information on Datameer, please visit www.datameer.com.

About Datameer

Datameer offers the first data analytics solution built on Hadoop that helps business users access, analyze and use massive amounts of data. Founded by Hadoop veterans in 2009, the company's breakthrough product provides unparalleled access to data with minimal IT resources. Datameer scales to 4,000 servers and petabytes of data and is available for all major Hadoop distributions including Apache, Cloudera, EMC, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR, Yahoo!, Amazon and Microsoft Azure. Datameer is based in San Mateo, Calif.

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