HPE has bought the assets of data platform specialist MapR, which lost its financial backing earlier this year. Data analytics providers like MapR have struggled in the face of growing competition from hyperscale public cloud providers. MapR has an existing ecosystem of partners including resellers, independent software vendors and system integrators. HPE will be adding these partners to the HPE Partner programmes, and plans to support existing deployments.
This transaction includes MapR’s technology, intellectual property, and domain expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and analytics data management. The acquisition aims to enable HPE to offer a portfolio of products to drive artificial intelligence and analytics applications and manage the data assets end to end, from edge to cloud.
MapR had told staff at the end of May that their jobs were gone after very poor Q1 results, but there are some 120 remaining in the business, it is understood
Partners are expected to transfer to the HPE channel even though MapR did not have many in Europe and to focus on edge integration and hybrid cloud.
It follows HPE’s decision two months ago to buy supercomputer company Cray for $1.3bn.
