Concurrent’s Cascading 3.0 Now Available 

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 9 -- Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, today announced the general availability of Cascading 3.0, the most widely used application platform for building and deploying enterprise data applications on Apache Hadoop.

The data application technology landscape continues to rapidly evolve with new, state-of-the-art, compute fabrics but with varying degrees of maturity. Enterprises who have invested in Hadoop are seeking practical solutions that provide the degrees of freedom to solve simple to complex problems, all while ensuring their investments are protected against change and technical uncertainty. Organizations need an enterprise-grade data application platform to quickly build and consistently deliver these data products to the business.

Cascading 3.0 represents a milestone release for future-proofing investments in next-generation data infrastructure by allowing enterprises to take advantage of newer compute fabrics as they come available without taking on any inherent risks. Cascading 3.0 abstracts away the underlying platform, allowing users to execute against additional platforms, not just MapReduce. Users have unique portability across programming languages (Java, SQL, Scala), Hadoop distributions (Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR) and now compute fabrics. Native support for Apache Tez is the first to be supported, with others to be quickly added.

Cascading 3.0 Sets the Bar for Enterprise Application Development

With more than 275,000 user downloads a month, Cascading is the de facto standard in enterprise application infrastructure technology. With tens of thousands of production deployments and millions of production jobs, Cascading is relied on by the largest data-centric businesses, supported by key strategic partnerships with Hortonworks and broad support with all major Hadoop distributions. Cascading accelerates and simplifies enterprise application development, and meets a variety of enterprise use cases -- ranging from simple to complex.

Cascading 3.0 is a major leap forward in enterprise data-centric application development. Features and benefits include:

• Allows enterprises to build data applications once, and run applications on the compute fabric that best meets their business needs
• Supports local In-memory, MapReduce and Apache Tez
• Delivers a flexible runtime layer for new computation fabrics to integrate and adhere to the semantics of a given compute engine, such as MapReduce or any DAG-like model through its pluggable query planner
• Provides benefits through portability to third-party products, data applications, frameworks and dynamic programming languages built on Cascading
• Supports compatibility with all major Hadoop vendors and service providers, including Altiscale, Amazon EMR, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR and Qubole, among others

Concurrent is leading the market in big data application infrastructure with Cascading and Driven, the industry's leading performance management product for the data-centric enterprise. With Cascading at the core, Concurrent continues to meet customer demand for state-of-the-art technologies, while balancing the pragmatic needs for enterprise application development, forging important industry partnerships and making data-driven application development simpler, faster and smarter. Together, Cascading and Driven deliver a one-two punch to knock out the complexity and provide a proven reliable solution for enterprises to execute their big data strategies.

Availability and Pricing

Cascading version 3.0 is immediately and freely licensable under the Apache 2.0 License Agreement. To learn more about Cascading, visit http://cascading.org. Concurrent also offers standard and premium support subscriptions for enterprise use.

About Concurrent, Inc.

Concurrent, Inc. is the leader in data application infrastructure, delivering products that help enterprises create, deploy, run and manage data applications at scale. The company's flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Concurrent is the team behind Cascading, the most widely deployed technology for data applications with more than 275,000 user downloads a month. Used by thousands of businesses including eBay, Etsy, The Climate Corp and Twitter, Cascading is the de facto standard in open source application infrastructure technology. Concurrent is headquartered in San Francisco and online at http://concurrentinc.com.

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Source: Concurrent, Inc.