Daniel Kim Country Manager, MapR

MapR Technologies, Inc. announced the expansion of its AsiaPac presence with the opening of an office in Korea located in Seoul.

The company also appointed Daniel Kim to country manager to support the expansion of the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop in Korea.

“Since we are seeing very strong demand in the Korean market with the introduction of mature big data technology and the government’s investment plan in high-growth areas, we are opening a Korea branch office to build-out our presence in the region with a focus on delivering the MapR platform’s advanced technology to the enterprise market,” said Steve Fitz, SVP, WW field operations, MapR.

 Kim has 19 years of IT industry experience. He will lead the MapR business expansion in Korea and establish relationships with customers and distributors to support growing customer demand for the MapR Distribution. Prior to joining MapR, Kim served in country manager roles for QLogic Korea, DDN, Copan Systems, and also worked for EMC, NetApp and Dacom.

“With the most advanced big data enterprise platform for Hadoop, we are confident that MapR will lead the big data market in Korea. The company has already proven itself in the Korean market with Samsung Electronics and a significant life insurance company,” said Kim. “We plan to grow the Korean market and meet emerging enterprise needs in collaboration with partners this year.“

MapR has also entered into a partnership agreement with IT service provider, LG CNS. Under the terms of the agreement, LG CNS will provide system integration and consulting services across Korea for the MapR Distribution for Hadoop and NoSQL. It is a global IT service provider with expertise in big data technology in Korea. It identified the MapR Distribution for Hadoop as the right platform to allow organizations to improve their big data analytics initiatives.

“We recognize MapR as a leader in Hadoop technology with unique enterprise-grade features that bring dependability, ease-of-use and world-record speed to Hadoop, NoSQL, database and streaming applications in one unified big data platform,” said Young-Ik Park, VP, advanced analytics business unit, LG CNS.

During the last six months, MapR has expanded its footprint in the region establishing an office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo which joins AsiaPac HQs in Singapore under the direction of VP, AsiaPac/Japan, Martin Darling. He brings to MapR a track record of cultivating high-impact sales and marketing teams and building sustainable, high-performance sales operations across AsiaPac/Japan.