Rob Bearden is new Hortonworks CEO. Oracle updates MySQL Cluster. And more.
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* With a new CEO, will Hortonworks get serious about Hadoop? Rob Bearden is Hortonworks’ new chief elephant-herder.
* Oracle Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2. Claims 1 billion queries per minute.
* Vertica Extends Manageability and Ease-of-Use for the Vertica Analytics Platform.
* NGDATA Raises Capital to Accelerate Growth Belgian data management company confirms that it recently acquired Outerthought.
* QlikTech Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results
* Quest Business Intelligence Studio 1.0 is now Generally Available
* Jaspersoft Delivers Big Data Integration into Jaspersoft ETL
* Hortonworks University Launches to Deliver Comprehensive Apache Hadoop Training and Certification.
* Schema in Cassandra 1.1. “as systems deployed on Cassandra grew and matured, lack of schema became a pain point”
* GigaSpaces Announces New Cloudify Free Product Edition.
* Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option.
* Multi-Tenant Cloudant in Europe.
* NuvolaBase has launched its hosted graph database offering.
* How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did. Big data’s beer and diapers equivalent.
* Beyond “Big Data”. “I have a theory that buzzwords are usually helpful in general, in that they usher in new concepts before they end up as meaningless marketing fluff–and, eventually, punchlines. I think this is in the process of happening right now with the term “big data”.”
* For 451 Research clients
# Akiban prepares to launch ‘table grouping’ NewSQL database IMpact Report
# IBM sheds light on the Big Blue business of information governance Market Decelopment Report
And that’s the Data Day, today.
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