MapR brings down data silos with converged data platform

Somehow, efforts to tear down silos of data within organizations over the past decade or so have led to the creation of entirely new data silos due to the scattershot proliferation of new analytics tools and the consumerization of enterprise software.On Tuesday, Hadoop distribution specialist MapR Technologies announced its intention to change all that with the MapR Converged Data Platform, which integrates file, database, stream processing and analytics. By natively integrating data-in-motion a