Open Data Platform launched. And more.

For @451Research clients: @Hortonworks, @IBM, @Pivotal et al. launch #OpenDataPlatform Hadoop industry association http://t.co/0vGDFqIGZh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MapR outlines wider vision, co-launches Myriad project to unite Hadoop, Mesos and Docker http://t.co/50Ex4KZgcY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Tamr_Inc launches vertical strategy for self-service data preparation http://t.co/I8Xb7r9dwX By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MemSQL connects with Apache Spark for real-time in-memory analytics http://t.co/1zEqeI5aNf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2015

Hortonworks, Pivotal, IBM (and others) form Open Data Platform industry association for Hadoop http://t.co/2hxqmwKqoi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Cloudera explains why it has not joined the Open Data Platform. http://t.co/Wr2BFPK6dT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Pivotal will open source HAWQ, Greenplum and GemFire http://t.co/e8UkzIaT29 forms strategic alliance with Hortonworks http://t.co/K5Z3uIQP9k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Cloudera claims 525 subscription customers and more than $100m revenue in fiscal 2015 http://t.co/tGzrkZ9aRl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Oracle updates big data offerings including Oracle Big Data Discovery and Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data http://t.co/zJPLd1R8pD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

RapidMiner has raised $15m series B funding led by Ascent Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners. http://t.co/JFyZgeUe6o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Sqrrl raises $7m series B, launches Sqrrl Enterprise 2.0 linked data analysis platform (based on Apache Accumulo) http://t.co/SqADIxApE6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

BlueTalon has announced its data access and security offering for Hadoop along with $5m in funding. http://t.co/RR9ZMKnyRT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Microsoft offers a preview of Azure HDInsight running on Linux, amongst other things http://t.co/S4HqsGeSzh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

MapR updates Hadoop distribution with cross-datacenter replication for MapR-DB http://t.co/yfTFrBS4fJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

IBM updates BigInsights for Apache Hadoop http://t.co/tejPcHGRfz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

RapidMiner launches self-service advanced analytics for Hadoop http://t.co/N6G2lSnqzG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

HP launches Haven Predictive Analytics, based on Distributed R http://t.co/jGMuYrh59r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Tamr updates data unification platform http://t.co/VaAIhiEGKm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Altiscale adds Spark http://t.co/RE9b79h5DE Kerberos authentication http://t.co/k0FqgxoxNK to the Altiscale Data Cloud

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Qubole adds Apache Spark to its Qubole Data Service. http://t.co/GkRsx7oLzX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Tableau Software has announced support for Apache Spark via a direct connector for Spark SQL. http://t.co/H6oXVuMY0k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

FICO launches Big Data Analyser (based on Karmasphere) http://t.co/B1payHzL9h Data Management Integration Platform http://t.co/FY3UTxHhEM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Qlik partners with JethroData for interactive SQL-on-Hadoop http://t.co/touQWlX2Hj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

DataRPM delivers version 8.0 of its smart machine insights software. http://t.co/EAXZpACPUz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Cloudera and Deloitte announce strategic alliance http://t.co/f6zYd4SgVN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2015

Couchbase and Hortonworks partner to deliver integration via Storm, Kafka and Sqoop http://t.co/K1swVtZ9Ju

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

Centrify delivers Hadoop-Active Directory integration with Centrify Server Suite 2015. http://t.co/MnVHS3XQaL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

GridGain launches version 7.0 of its In-Memory Data Fabric Enterprise Edition built on Apache Ignite. http://t.co/ZF1RlWPl4A

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Cloudwick launches managed services for Hortonworks http://t.co/tm7tGN1vjl Cloudera http://t.co/xBf0SeqxR5 DataStax http://t.co/p726sukNWD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

Tesora enables the provisioning of Oracle Database in OpenStack via Trove. http://t.co/agzSxpObHq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.