Big Data Partnership was a specialist
big data
Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...
professional services company based in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
, UK. It provides consultancy, certified training and support to
Europe, the Middle East and Africa
EMEA is a shorthand designation meaning Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The acronym is used by institutions and governments, as well as in marketing and business when referring to this region: it is a shorthand way of referencing the two ...
-based enterprises.
Big Data Partnership provides expertise in platforms including
Apache Hadoop
Apache Hadoop () is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage ...
,
Apache Cassandra,
Elasticsearch,
Apache HBase,
Apache Spark
Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark provides an interface for programming clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. Originally developed at the University of Californi ...
,
Apache Storm
Apache Storm is a distributed stream processing computation framework written predominantly in the Clojure programming language. Originally created by Nathan Marz and team at BackType, the project was open sourced after being acquired by Twitter. ...
and
Couchbase.
Big Data Partnership was founded in 2012 by Mike Merritt-Holmes, Pinal Gandhi and Tim Seears and formed partnerships with companies including
Hortonworks,
MapR,
WANdisco
WANdisco, plc., dually headquartered in Sheffield, England and San Ramon, California in the US, is a public software company specialized in the area of distributed computing. It has development offices in San Ramon, California; Sheffield, England ...
,
Databricks,
Amazon Web Services,
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
and
Elasticsearch.
In June 2014, Big Data Partnership announced Series A funding led by Beringea LLP, an international venture capital firm with offices in London and Detroit.
In 2016, Big Data Partnership was acquired by
Teradata
Teradata Corporation is an American software company that provides cloud database and analytics-related software, products, and services. The company was formed in 1979 in Brentwood, California, as a collaboration between researchers at Caltech a ...
to join their ThinkBig practice.
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External links
Official website (archived)* https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorclawson/2014/02/06/small-players-in-a-big-data-world/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140514211347/http://www.builtinlondon.co/big-data-partnership
* http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/big-data-partnership-expands-hadoop-offerings-for-emea-enterprises-245789061.html
* http://hortonworks.com/partner/big-data-partnership/
* http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2329296/big-data-partnership-offers-intel-hadoop-software
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140514221019/http://techcitynews.com/directory/big-data-partnership/
Big data companies
Technology companies based in London
British companies established in 2012
Teradata