Entries from June 2013 ↓

The Data Day, A few days: June 26-28 2013

June 28th, 2013 — Data management

Hortonworks raises $50m, previews next-generation Hadoop. And more

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: June 11-25 2013

June 25th, 2013 — Data management

A bumper round-up of the past 14 days’ data-related news

* Cisco announced its intention to acquire Composite Software.

* Software AG acquired Apama.

* TIBCO Software acquired StreamBase Systems.

* Cloudera appointed Tom Reilly as Chief Executive Officer and Mike Olson as Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of the Board.

* Sears Holdings named Jeff Balagna Chief Executive Officer of MetaScale

* Ex-Yahoo CTO launched Altiscale, hardcore Hadoop as a service.

* SpaceCurve raised a $10M Series B round of financing.

* Sqrrl announced general availability of Sqrrl Enterprise.

* GE launched Predictivity services, supported by supported by Proficy Historian HD.

* Datameer announced Datameer 3.0.

* Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3.

* MemSQL announced the upcoming availability of MemSQL 2.1.

* Continuuity announced the release of Weave, a new open source project that enables Java developers to rapidly build scalable, distributed applications on YARN.

* RainStor adds security, text search features to database complement for Hadoop.

* Composite Software introduced version 6.2 SP3 of its Composite Data Virtualization Platform

* TokuDB launched TokuMX.

* Terracotta announced the immediate availability of Terracotta Universal Messaging.

* HP united its data management assets under HAVEn brand.

* Hortonworks and Red Hat announced an engineering collaboration around Hadoop.

* Rackspace Hosting’s ObjectRocket Database as a Service entered into a strategic agreement with 10gen.

* Simon Phipps posted State Of The Sea Lion – June 2013.

* Netflix announced that its Genie Hadoop-aaS management software is now open source

* Storm-YARN released as open source.

* Big Data arrived at the Oxford English Dictionary

And that’s the data day, today.

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The Data Day, A few days: June 6-10 2013

June 10th, 2013 — Data management

Beyond Hadoop. IBM embraces MongoDB. And more.

And that’s the data day, today.

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Updated Database Landscape map – June 2013

June 10th, 2013 — Data management

I am planning on doing a major overhaul of this during the second half of the year, with a specific focus on the Hadoop sector, but in the interim, here’s the latest June 2013 update to our Database Landscape map.

Note: the latest update to the map is available here.

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The Data Day, A few days: June 3-5 2013

June 5th, 2013 — Data management

Micrososft previews SQL Server 2014. Cloudera targets legacy data management vendors. And more

And that’s the data day, today.

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