Cloud-based big data platform analyses massive amounts of data and strengthens proactive and predictive security services to the federal and state government using Hadoop
MapR Technologies, provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop that integrates web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database capabilities, has announced that Macquarie Telecom, Australia’s leading managed hosting and business-only telecommunications company, has deployed the MapR data platform.
Macquarie Telecom’s Government Division today secures telecommunications for 42% of government agencies in Australia. The company provides government employees with a secure Internet gateway, so they can safely access external public websites, downloads, and email services. As it is providing services to the government, Macquarie Telecom is by contract required to provide its clients with a specific level of service. Macquarie Telecom monitors hundreds of systems providing logs and disparate data set in multiple formats–about a billion events every day.
“With the growing complexity of the digital threat landscape and the development of SaaS and cloud services, Macquarie Telecom must secure and analyse an exponentially growing amount of data, as well as predict increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks,” comments Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director of Macquarie Hosting Group at Macquarie Telecom. “Big data analytics in a hybrid cloud services model is the next big thing in complex security environments such as those of governments. We needed a comprehensive platform that is able to analyse data in the cloud and most importantly in real-time, which is what MapR is providing us with today. We considered several distributions of Hadoop, and chose the MapR Distribution as best for our needs.”
“Macquarie Telecom will be collecting massive amounts of data and we are delighted to be partnering with them to build the system they need to enhance the federal and state governments’ security through powerful data analytics and predictive security services, and through a platform available in the cloud. Together we can enable the government to be more responsive and effective in terms of security,” says Justin Bock, Regional Manager for ANZ, MapR Technologies.
Macquarie Telecom is already seeing great benefits from the implementation of this new data analytics platform. MapR helped improve Macquarie’s reports’ performance, timeliness, accuracy and security – reports that used to take 14 days are now taking only 2 hours.
About Macquarie Telecom
Macquarie Telecom, Australia’s number one managed hosting, cloud and business-only telecommunications company.
About MapR Technologies
MapR provides the industry’s only big data platform that combines the processing power of the top-ranked Hadoop with web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database capabilities, enabling customers to harness the enormous power of their data. Organizations with the most demanding production needs, including sub-second response for fraud prevention, secure and highly available data-driven insights for better healthcare, petabyte analysis for threat detection, and integrated operational and analytic processing for improved customer experiences, run on MapR. A majority of customers achieve payback in fewer than 12 months and realize greater than 5X ROI. MapR ensures customer success through world-class professional services and with free on-demand training that 40,000 developers, data analysts and administrators have used to close the big data skills gap. Amazon, Cisco, Google, HP, SAP, and Teradata are part of the worldwide MapR partner ecosystem. Investors include Google Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, NEA, Qualcomm Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Connect with MapR on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook
