On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, “Designing Enterprise Platforms,” EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with MapR’s CTO Ted Dunning. Designing Enterprise Platforms is a podcast about the deeper issues involved in creating big victories in enterprise technology. MapR is a company that has been around for most of the Hadoop era and has always taken the point of view that Hadoop was a great infrastructure that needed to be improved. MapR makes these improvements through the file system and then layering on a variety of other components. Their conversation covered:* * * *