What’s more important? Data – or analytics? Ask the Democrats.

For @451Research clients: @Microsoft unveils @SQLServer 2017, now with added intelligence https://t.co/BMMtTGVawg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Infor reaches for @BirstBI to infuse analytics into its enterprise apps https://t.co/Gs4zCmOQD2 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 27, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Sisense details strategy to support visual-analysis enterprise shift https://t.co/IxT5wXyx9K By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 26, 2017

For @451Research clients: With $100m in new funding @SnowflakeDB is ready to scale the company https://t.co/k1UQucMhHj By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 28, 2017

For @451Research clients: @stitch_data introduces Singer open source project to expand ETL-as-a-service footprint https://t.co/QPLHKxWvl1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2017

For @451Research clients: @grovestreams on lookout for investment for its IoT analytics platform https://t.co/23gvZgweDa By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 28, 2017

Cloudera will commence trading on the NYSE later today at $15 per share https://t.co/FuFrRH1iYF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 28, 2017

For @451Research clients: The 451 Research guide to Robotic process automation https://t.co/p1bXlI5jog By @wif @CarlLehmann1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2017

Domo closes $100m series D2 extension financing, led by BlackRock with a $2.3bn valuation https://t.co/fXYtceEJtI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 28, 2017

Domino Data Labs raises $27m funding round led by Coatue Management https://t.co/xqtV2KqkBq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 26, 2017

Teradata reports a $2m net loss on Q1 revenue down 4% (excluding offloaded marketing apps business) to $491m https://t.co/FWwIkovPFC (PDF)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 27, 2017

Infor to acquire Birst (for undisclosed amount) https://t.co/FT3bM5XQax

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2017

Guavus announces agreement to be acquired by Thales for up to $215m https://t.co/u9lPUraKFz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 28, 2017

Bloomberg: Oracle Plans Internal 'Startup' to Outpace Rivals’ Innovation https://t.co/eKRZ4WiRGC Targets AI, IoT, AR/VR, cloud

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2017

Attunity reports a net loss of $1.5m on Q1 revenue up 18% to $13.8m https://t.co/RkjaLXruuk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 27, 2017

Infosys has launched Nia – its next generation integrated artificial intelligence platform https://t.co/iKXnDzi5H8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 27, 2017

MapD launches version 3.0 of its MapD Core GPU database and Immerse visual analytics platform https://t.co/T1m7C0dad6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 26, 2017

Attivio launches Managed Services for Cognitive Search https://t.co/RTVYvdr7ai

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 27, 2017

Toshiba launches GridDB Standard Edition NoSQL Database for IoT workloads https://t.co/xPLydGALcZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

We’re going to use American data, we’re going to use American analytics, we are going to come first in all deals.

For @451Research clients: @SAP spells out BusinessObjects Cloud roadmap https://t.co/WuDBHsPH8Y By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 10, 2017

For @451Research clients: @SnapLogic https://t.co/fYBYg9bqkN unveils machine-learning-driven integration assistant

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 21, 2017

For @451Research clients: @ActianCorp hopes to show it has the 'X factor' with new hybrid data focus https://t.co/0Pmfgi7z8g

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Informatica Cloud Spring 2017 targets cloud-first and hybrid cloud https://t.co/b217iCDHAq By @CarlLehmann1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

For @451Research clients: Latest @SAP Vora release matches the right compute engine with the right data https://t.co/av5dhmkPNV By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 11, 2017

For @451Research clients: @AInsights updates content-generation play, eyes growth under new CEO https://t.co/IEyE97mesk By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 21, 2017

For @451Research clients: @PodiumData enhances its positioning with Data Marketplace update https://t.co/ufNkiw0BhS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

For @451Research clients: Data warehouse automation in the age of the #Hadoop-based #datalake https://t.co/nXuF6RB6IA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 11, 2017

For @451Research clients: @iguazio highlights continuous analytics use cases for converged data services platform https://t.co/vmreCC2Yw8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 12, 2017

For @451Research clients: With $16m in fresh funding, @ScyllaDB sets its sights on Apache Cassandra https://t.co/DexgXEpHQS By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Cloud9Charts becomes knowi, expands focus to bring AI to BI https://t.co/0eyOr10wHe By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

For @451Research clients: @SoftwareAG transforms its portfolio into a digital business platform https://t.co/LSy0MO5Iv3 By @CarlLehmann1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

For @451Research clients: @JethroData, now known simply as Jethro, targets interactive BI on Hadoop https://t.co/UlHiqSYRPT By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Tableau announces switch to subscription pricing https://t.co/PazYCAb1UZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 10, 2017

Cloudera sets IPO price range of $12 to $14 https://t.co/9iIqyfsioa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

Cloud9 Charts has changed its name to Knowi https://t.co/hE6H9ia2ad

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

Reltio raises $40m series C funding, led by NEA. https://t.co/0ywwt4XiRC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

Digital Reasoning appoints Brett Jackson as CEO https://t.co/XA5VnAiEJR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

Microsoft confirmed that the next version of SQL Server is SQL Server 2017 and will be available simultaneously on Windows, Linux and Docker

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 19, 2017

Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure Analysis Services https://t.co/oDx305OZsH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 19, 2017

Microsoft adds Face, Computer Vision, and Content Moderator APIs to Cognitive Services https://t.co/t3Cx1zgclI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 19, 2017

AWS launches Amazon Redshift Spectrum, enabling users to run complex queries on data stored in Amazon S3 https://t.co/9F2WU00dgW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

AWS announces Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator in-memory cache option https://t.co/1Qwfjyabbj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

AWS previews Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility https://t.co/aAGVYZeFTb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

Actian introduces Actian X hybrid database, combining the Ingres OLTP database and Vector analytics query engine https://t.co/UlE4dg5x8T

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

Pentaho’s CEO departs the company. Pentaho execs now report to Hitachi Data Systems’ president and COO. https://t.co/Z4eMLXkOKo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

SnapLogic unveils Iris artificial intelligence engine and SnapLogic Integration Assistant recommendation engine https://t.co/R87WGKEOeS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

Striim launches version 3.7 of its real-time data integration and streaming analytics platform https://t.co/nQMbnjE6LW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 19, 2017

Microsoft launches Azure Time Series Insights https://t.co/Z2zi84hjSF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

Databricks launches Databricks for Data Engineering https://t.co/Lr9vn0Iskz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 12, 2017

Microsoft introduces R Server 9.1 release https://t.co/PwyEnBCWCs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2017

Podium Data updates data marketplace platform https://t.co/OcLgReMIx2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 21, 2017

Swarm64 releases Swarm64SDA scalable data accelerator for MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL https://t.co/qHSMe5qnyl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 11, 2017

AWS Database Migration Service Adds Support for MongoDB and Amazon DynamoDB https://t.co/lqeQJrk46M

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 11, 2017

IBM partners with Continuum Analytics to bring the Anaconda data science platform to its Power systems. https://t.co/vmudgS9qUj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

Just noticed Ignite Technologies acquired Infobright's Enterprise Edition assets and customers in March https://t.co/UEJbf1RpKR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

The real story turns out to be DATA and ANALYTICS! Find the leakers.

For @451Research clients: Hadoop pioneer @cloudera eyes IPO, bets big on advanced analytics platform By @jmscrts https://t.co/XbE2VOnSWq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Domotalk adds artificial intelligence to Business Cloud, cites adoption milestones https://t.co/dBXwY5dKYU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Teradata rolls out IntelliCloud managed analytic database cloud @jmscrts https://t.co/aFEZbN2eDZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: @AyataAnalytics expands artificial intelligence/ operations vertical focus https://t.co/1Ylc67onQb By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Enova seeks business diversification via predictive decision management https://t.co/0Dnnohz6Qb By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

For @451Research clients: @justonedb rebrands as Edge Intelligence, focuses on IoT https://t.co/nS9PPSuZu0 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Pepperdata goes after DevOps with a little help from Dr. Elephant https://t.co/aFLWACmHe1 By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 6, 2017

Cloudera has filed its S-1 https://t.co/7hgvfLx0jN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2017

Snowflake Computing raises $100m series D funding led by ICONIQ Capital https://t.co/HBcuecdVXw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

Tableau introduces new subscription pricing model https://t.co/zpL9WiPj3I

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 6, 2017

Couchbase has appointed former Veritas President Matt Cain as CEO https://t.co/UqsykwG0gf Bob Wiederhold becomes Executive Chairman

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

Hortonworks launches HDP 2.6, including Apache Hive 2.0 with LLAP https://t.co/cMyfMAFNjn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2017

Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6 https://t.co/b3bgIHqzEk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

SAP is using MapR’s File System to support SAP’s cloud infrastructure storage capabilities. https://t.co/ncg5Y7XEX0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2017

Teradata updates IntelliFlex and launches IntelliBase https://t.co/jSCFYPn5Ln

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

Teradata introduces portable database subscription licenses. https://t.co/BqLcDKRT22

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

Google Cloud Platform partners with Elastic to offer managed Elastic Cloud https://t.co/XLSwKYEJ3a

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 6, 2017

‘Artificial Intelligence’ has become meaningless https://t.co/isDKMMxrG9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 6, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, “went to his mailbox” and found my data and analytics?

For @451Research clients: @googlecloud ratchets up database credentials with Cloud Spanner service https://t.co/80mmLTVH8D

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Alation highlights governance for insight with @Tableau, @MicroStrategy partnerships https://t.co/dRSdlYggZK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2017

For @451Research clients: @ProgressSW plots Cognitive Apps enablement role via machine-learning focus https://t.co/6fkBvE2VEb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 17, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Couchbase adopts 'system of engagement' mantra for updated NoSQL database https://t.co/1D18L0V1uI By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 17, 2017

For @451Research clients: @SASsoftware takes Event Stream Processing to @Cisco's edge for IoT stack https://t.co/bqCoRkNJe2 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 17, 2017

For @451Research clients: The rise of the #datadriven application for business intelligence https://t.co/6qk4YwpC52 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2017

For @451Research clients: @IBMConnect 2017: Watson, Watson, everywhere https://t.co/Tpq30ielxE By @ChrisMarshSF et al

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 13, 2017

For @451Research clients: @FORMCEPT targets multi-structured data mgmt/analysis at data-driven apps https://t.co/1LthkL9PEH By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

MuleSoft launches initial public offering at $17.00 per share. https://t.co/3tVazBbz0y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 17, 2017

Talend prices follow-on offering at $28.50 per ADS https://t.co/ZmFh26KZlk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2017

KNIME raises €20m from equity investor INVUS https://t.co/TKO83lKN5J

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2017

Unifi Software raises $17.5m series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners. https://t.co/CKb1f9Jdoh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

Infoworks has raised $15m series B financing to develop its enterprise data warehousing on Hadoop https://t.co/PTOMr5loCD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

Oracle announces net income of $2.2bn on Q3 revenue up 2% to $9.2bn https://t.co/y6BegXAxA4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2017

Cloudera unveils Data Science Workbench, a new self-service tool for data science on Cloudera Enterprise. https://t.co/wJUH3XLre8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

SAP brings Vora to SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services (formerly known as Altiscale) – now available in Europe https://t.co/lktGN7ST5t

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2017

Trifacta and Alation strengthen partnership to integrate data wrangling and data cataloging capabilities https://t.co/TrAyekxcjo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2017

Fauna launches FaunaDB Serverless Cloud, a serverless database spanning Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud https://t.co/NDrrAJHIPw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2017

MapR launches MapR Edge, small footprint edition of the MapR Converged Data Platform, for edge processing IoT data. https://t.co/b7HMjb5tMv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

DataStax launches DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 5.1 including unified dev environment for DSE Graph and Cassandra https://t.co/pAyeF0Ubr6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2017

Cask Data updates CDAP to version 4.1 including packaged capabilities for EDW Offload, IoT and HEDIS reporting. https://t.co/omLNQUD16Z

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

Zaloni launches Data Lake in a Box, including Hadoop, data lake management and self-service data prep. https://t.co/nXsZ5AlQoV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 13, 2017

Paxata adds InterCloud Connect capability with Spring ’17 edition of its Adaptive Information Platform https://t.co/f0ghEeqowU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

Podium Data positions data lake management and self-service data preparation combo as Data Marketplace https://t.co/pvNnnDIO2U

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

Impetus Technologies launches StreamAnalytix 3.0 including support for Apache Spark-based batch processing https://t.co/3WO7xmPHFa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

Pentaho launches orchestration capabilities to streamline machine learning workflow https://t.co/tbBbj2Wfqj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

Kx Systems has released version 3.5 of its kdb+ database and analytics technology https://t.co/ZjXbm98Avo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2017

Unisys launches Machine-Learning-as-a-Service https://t.co/t1tQX5VT7D

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2017

Trace3 introduces Dynamic Data Preparation Appliance, in collaboration with Paxata and Cisco https://t.co/WLxRnengXN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2017

Bitwise announces open source availability of Hydrograph GUI-based ETL development tool for big data and cloud https://t.co/AZwPPnAjpw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

DeepSQL Deep sixed? https://t.co/hwue0Kf1Q4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

I have tremendous respect for data and analytics and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy.

For @451Research clients: @Salesforce Spring 17 release unleashes Einstein in apps and beyond https://t.co/VzlfuiSLym By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Collibra seeks role as system of record for data governance following $50m series C https://t.co/ztf1Z7eKB9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

For @451Research clients: @qlik sheds light on its strategy and roadmap for cloud visual analysis https://t.co/FzhIwO0x4d By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

For @451Research clients: @MapR serves up stateful storage with its Docker-specific container platform https://t.co/p53xOrAemm By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 6, 2017

For @451Research clients: @RedisLabs harmonizes branding for open source in-memory data platform https://t.co/nX8CtvO7ij By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 6, 2017

For @451Research clients: @arcadiadata focuses on enabling data-driven apps, international expansion https://t.co/nRmQeZRbLE BY Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

For @451Research clients: @TeamAnodot looks to take business-incident detection international https://t.co/ZRI3AklbQS By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

For @451Research clients: Open source database firm @Percona launches new MongoDB bundle https://t.co/kzKjpWkHM1 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

For @451Research clients: Predixion's edge analytics help @GreenwaveSys tackle Industrial IoT https://t.co/7YqcsAjVZC By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Attunity updates data warehouse automation offering, cites growing demand for data lakes https://t.co/0waao1Mxsr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 6, 2017

Cloudera Said to Tap Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, BofA for IPO https://t.co/0lz1DzmqBz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 10, 2017

Confluent raises $50m led by Sequoia and involving Benchmark and Index Ventures https://t.co/W7taFl61yC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

ScyllaDB closes $16m series B funding for Apache Cassandra drop-in replacement https://t.co/LRfbBIUDPh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

Prevedere raises $10m series B funding led by Norwest Venture Partners https://t.co/UMXQ8aR7VJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

IBM and Salesforce announce artificial intelligence partnership integrating IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein https://t.co/gBvCLHhtna

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Salesforce adds Einstein AI across its portfolio with the launch of Salesforce Spring ‘17 Release https://t.co/FdJygBWBrB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

SAP/Google strategic partnership includes general availability of HANA on Google Cloud Platform https://t.co/2nQx16BnWL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

Google announces Cloud Video Intelligence API, Cloud Machine Learning updates https://t.co/YEg8EdjbJ7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

Google Cloud Platform launches Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, improved support for MySQL and SQL Server Enterprise https://t.co/ZnaFT8nuex

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Google Cloud Platform launches Google Cloud Dataprep and BigQuery Data Transfer Service https://t.co/Nvi94DmCr7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Google Cloud Dataprep is based on Trifacta’s interface and Photon Compute Framework https://t.co/bHBgM7cCQn https://t.co/2AFxUaJ5aH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is now available in the cloud, with Oracle Cloud at Customer, and on-premises. https://t.co/qBwkvMkxVq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Informatica introduces Informatica Cloud Data Lake Management https://t.co/TZTAuiOuGq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Informatica announces the integration of Informatica Cloud with Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL. https://t.co/9vJzOwHxWv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Teradata launches IntelliCloud managed cloud offering based on Teradata Database, Aster Analytics, or Hadoop. https://t.co/BtVWY22ywx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Talend updates Data Preparation, now powered by Apache Beam. https://t.co/kWtjhiJIPD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Teradata announces Kylo, an open source data lake management platform developed and supported by Think Big Analytics https://t.co/59TsVVjnrd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

MongoDB has added a new free tier for its database as a service offering, MongoDB Atlas. https://t.co/YPDuXGQ8DF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

AtScale announces the general availability of AtScale 5.0. https://t.co/RDqCSALcU1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Attivio has achieved profitability for the first time in its history. https://t.co/f4JMbNfqCJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 6, 2017

BlueData has announced the spring release of its BlueData EPIC Big-Data-as-a-Service platform https://t.co/1AI4U8IUuf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Pepperdata adds Pepperdata Application Profiler amid increased focus on DevOps for Big Data. https://t.co/8ujYZlX1JD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Pivotal launches Datometry Hyper-Q for Pivotal Data Suite, enabling Teradata workloads to run on Pivotal Greenplum https://t.co/0zAxxxF0kF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Galactic Exchange launches the cloud version of ClusterGX Spark/Hadoop clustering platform on AWS https://t.co/Ap6pUYDvGS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

Galactic Exchange announces DataEnchilada, an AI-powered data ingestion tool for ClusterGX. https://t.co/82NZCHUCeZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Cinchapi releases beta version of Cinchapi Data Platform https://t.co/cAjyuK37NY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

The Data Platforms and Analytics massacre

For @451Research clients: @CaskData completes evolution to data integration platform with CDAP 4 https://t.co/DGuUm7f2NP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 3, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Cloudera runs with @ApacheKudu, integrates it with Enterprise Data Hub https://t.co/3JtkHGKy2K By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 30, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Datameer bolsters management to boost enterprise Hadoop analysis appeal https://t.co/fy8r8NCAzy By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 1, 2017

For @451Research clients: With $25m series B, @PeriscopeData targets data scientists https://t.co/wRfJHmXTOJ By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 31, 2017

For @451Research clients: @HVR_Software looks to make a name for itself with real-time data replication services https://t.co/xYDryKUT3a

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 30, 2017

MicroStrategy’s Q4 net inc was $31.1m on rev down 2% to $140.1m, FY net inc – $90.9m – on rev down 3.3% to $512.2m https://t.co/ZLzgHSZP7r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 1, 2017

Cloudera announces general availability of Apache Kudu with Cloudera Enterprise 5.10 https://t.co/1JAAn3UWtN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 31, 2017

For @451Research clients: @CenturyLink launches managed bare metal big data as a service with @Cloudera https://t.co/YF6WT0lUt9 By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 2, 2017

VoltDB launches v7 of its in-memory SQL database https://t.co/PbuhqXBLOV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 2, 2017

Tableau reported a Q4 net loss of $21.1m on rev up 24% to $250.7m, FY net loss of $144.4m on rev up 27% to $826.9m https://t.co/cCdNxwbrFO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 3, 2017

Oracle has effectively doubled the price of its software running on AWS https://t.co/c2NIX1FaTl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 31, 2017

Transceptor Technology open sources SiriDB time series database https://t.co/XBOX94Pyyq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 2, 2017

Amazon Web Services’ MXNet deep learning project has been accepted as an Apache Incubator project. https://t.co/15vXbxxNP8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 31, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

Grow up, data platforms and analytics: it’s time to be an adult

For @451Research clients: Machine learning: past, present and yet to come https://t.co/IGSC2jaMPU 2016 in #machinelearning pic.twitter.com/yiWZvYUFlH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 21, 2016

See what's in store for the #data platforms and #analytics sector in 2017 by downloading a report excerpt here: https://t.co/q0Tz1cdCts pic.twitter.com/Nf6S7SVN1y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Qlik expands its visual analysis vista to geospatial data with @IdevioMaps https://t.co/qXEGErzXPg By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2017

For @451Research clients: @SAP doubles down on convergence, embraces ML within its BI portfolio https://t.co/rPXJTmZiyJ By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2017

For @451Research clients: @UnifiSoftware benefits from unified approach to data preparation and management https://t.co/vTFGuEew0g

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2017

For @451Research clients: @MapD presses performance, brands GPU database and visualization tool https://t.co/qxvApoE4Oo By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: @gooddata doubles down on enterprise embedded analytics, adding ML, NLP https://t.co/QWos3yUn8K By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: @blazingdb emerges with disk-based, GPU-powered database https://t.co/t9SVsAt6Pm By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Mag_SW connects with @SimbaTech to deliver insights for corporate performance management https://t.co/oUMRdriMo2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2017

For @451Research clients: @itrsgroup aims to take real-time analytics beyond financial services https://t.co/oqH4TLQirG By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: Mesosphere rises where containers and big data come together https://t.co/dRn4h3jVeI By @ripcitylyman

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 22, 2016

For @451Research @aerospikedb looks beyond ad-tech, highlights flash-based NoSQL database architecture https://t.co/kXuKboX1p1 By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 22, 2016

NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – An Interesting Occasional Update https://t.co/EkmjLULwgC Interesting… pic.twitter.com/yEadMClZgR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 19, 2016

From @451Research’s @brenondaly: The where and how of tech M&A in 2017 https://t.co/VeVu7HwvU8 pic.twitter.com/IYe52tBwi4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2017

According to latest @451research survey, 71% of enterprises now capturing data for #IoT https://t.co/hVQJsUmxgR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 22, 2016

#GDPR set to make personal data, privacy protection uniform across EU https://t.co/uy2ycGUaDd @451Research report now available free to all

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 21, 2016

Qlik has acquired Idevio to boost its geographical-related visual analytics software and services https://t.co/AxI978TSY3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2017

Xplenty has reportedly raised a $4m funding round and acquired Driven Inc https://t.co/k2rST2SZLX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 22, 2016

Datameer appoints Christian Rodatus, asits new CEO https://t.co/R8dhOT6yg8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 21, 2016

WhereScape has promoted Mark Budzinski, president of WhereScape USA and global head of sales, to CEO https://t.co/ROF4CwjQwy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 20, 2016

Cloudera and Docker have partnered to deliver commercially supported secure Docker containers for data sharing https://t.co/DUjBBbGZMb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 20, 2016

MicroStrategy has announced the general availability of MicroStrategy 10.6 https://t.co/Ei33YTIVnM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 19, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Make Data Platform and Analytics Great Again

For @451Research clients: The 7 vectors of data platform decision-making and why they matter, Pt 1 https://t.co/j4rqvsZgpe By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 9, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM's World of Watson is one of ownership and deep understanding of data https://t.co/QmtFk231Rh By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM brands new data analytics platform as the @IBMWatson Data Platform https://t.co/Fasjls5aVo By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 9, 2016

For @451Research clients @Cloudera doubles down with Director update, Spark download as Kudu turns 1.0 https://t.co/KlmNRUPZZU By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

For @451Research clients: Neo Technology takes in $36m, revamps clustering architecture on @Neo4j https://t.co/yVOMmjosNG By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2016

For @451Research clients: @TreasureData positions as Live Data Management platform provider, raises $25m https://t.co/D1ODuRhClD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Pentaho integrates visualization and data preparation with latest update https://t.co/4fJularRy3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

Neo Technology raises $36m in series D funding from Greenbridge Investment Partners and existing investors https://t.co/Pjzl2RTbxZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2016

Treasure Data launches Live Data Management Platform, raises $25M series C funding https://t.co/rWMFtficli

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 7, 2016

SAP announces SAP HANA 2 https://t.co/prUtmnTZd3, updates SAP BusinessObjects Analytics portfolio https://t.co/gi1wKTJ1De

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

Tableau announces Hyper data engine, Project Maestro data prep product, Tableau Server for Linux https://t.co/1R0XzO3dZZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

Striim launches version 3.6 of its real-time data integration and streaming analytics platform. https://t.co/l277TrKN95

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2016

Couchbase adds full text search and real-time analytics to NoSQL database https://t.co/22rlXLJQuP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Data platforms and analytics doesn’t look like this anymore!

For @451Research clients: @SAP snaps up @Altiscale for its big-data analytics managed services https://t.co/qQnFTG7HM2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Salesforce illuminates @beyondcoreinc's initial role inside Wave Analytics https://t.co/xsEe7qIzs6 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Hortonworks combines NiFi with Kafka, Storm, Ambari and Ranger with HDF 2.0 https://t.co/Mf7SRhaIRE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

For @451Research clients: @StreamSets aims to master data pipelines https://t.co/4VBPriPTw4 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Fivetran aims to transform data integration with cloud-based approach to ELT https://t.co/jYMDEd0aLR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

For @451Research clients: @EsgynCorp sets sights on mixed workloads with updated Hadoop RDBMS https://t.co/MwqNhG0rWX By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Altiscale confirms its acquisition by SAP https://t.co/rRB3WMAFfJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

SAP's take on its completed acquisition of Altiscale https://t.co/6aTzSW2DrC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Podium Data raises $9.5m series A financing round https://t.co/CPFd0f9IuG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Kinetica adds $6m in acceleration funding https://t.co/qDV7GOLa3j

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

IBM unveils Project DataWorks cloud-based data and analytics platform driven by machine learning and Spark. https://t.co/wELRI6mc6f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Splunk updates operational intelligence portfolio with embedded machine learning https://t.co/eWamKs0D84

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

MapR unveils support for event-driven microservices on Converged Data Platform https://t.co/pD0UrmoU4B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Microsoft Azure HDInsight now runs Hortonworks Data Platform 2.5, including Spark 2.0 https://t.co/6CU52Pt0hf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Hitachi updates Pentaho Data Integration with Spark SQL, Kafka support https://t.co/cI3GcxUT6Y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Zaloni updates Bedrock Data Lake Management to version 4.2 https://t.co/G845hcYBJa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Zaloni updates Mica self-service data preparation offering to version 1.2 https://t.co/yzxTMxECdS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Alation previews Alation Data Catalog 4.0 with Alation Connect https://t.co/CBLJyvWCd8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

MemSQL releases version 5.5, including MemSQL Pipelines for native ingest from Kafka https://t.co/x0vN8DjD24

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

MySQL at Oracle Open World 2016 https://t.co/qaclTkqOlW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Confluent enhances Enterprise offering for Kafka with multi-datacenter replication, auto data balancing https://t.co/rcBFPMtrb7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Cambridge Semantics launches Anzo Smart Data Lake for Enterprise https://t.co/6Q8lgkHj7k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Splice Machine announces native Oracle PL/SQL support for Hadoop-based RDBMS https://t.co/5QBV2gDRtK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Paxata launches Paxata Connect, repositions as Business Information Platform provider. https://t.co/CzmYz6Dr5o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

BlueData updates its EPIC containerized big data-as-a-service platform for Hdoop and Spark. https://t.co/GWJHemJzye

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Basho updates its Riak TS and Riak KV databases. https://t.co/ZZBWk1ZDyE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

PostgreSQL 9.6 is now available, with support for parallel query, and enhanced synchronous replication https://t.co/J05o32szxw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Cazena's Data Lake as a Service is now available on Azure https://t.co/XnNdaAfgmn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

The Cloudera-backed Open Network Insights (ONI) project is now Apache Spot (incubating) https://t.co/j3LG1UlCoA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

data Artisans has launched the dA Platform, a Flink distribution with subscription support https://t.co/ejeyethQl8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Deepsense.io unveils Neptune machine learning platform https://t.co/HFK6b7x2LU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Deepsense.io updates Seahorse data analytics workbench with support for Spark 2.0. https://t.co/zOTOgFEH8w

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

WANdisco’s CEO has left the company with immediate effect https://t.co/pogXWOo7g2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

What happened in data platforms and analytics this week will leave you speechless

For @451Research clients: @MicroFocus continues consolidation, adds @HPE software in $8.8bn transaction https://t.co/1clkegb28I By @sfjohna

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2016

For @451Research clients: NoSQL and SQL: An Object Lesson https://t.co/lFSq8NYIhA How has NoSQL fared after seven years? By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: Are @ObjectRocket cloud databases the jewel in @Rackspace's crown? https://t.co/wpEfXM4YNY By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2016

For @451Research clients: @MapR secures $50m, releases a Spark distribution, enhances cluster monitoring https://t.co/COeVMfVtb1 By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 7, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Altair_US seeks to cement BI credentials with self-service visual analysis https://t.co/XUG4IhcAPH By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2016

For @451Research clients: @CrateIO moves HQ to US to accelerate its analytic database business https://t.co/swbnk0laHM By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: Data services firm @Bitwise_Updates eyes opportunity with ETL-on-Hadoop tool https://t.co/HVvFNyVCUo By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2016

For @451Research clients: @googlecloud demonstrates database commitment with GA releases https://t.co/jpf3owH3w8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2016

HPE “spin-merges” software assets to Micro Focus in $8.8bn deal, taking a 50.1% stake in the combined company. https://t.co/6nehSppCuT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2016

Zoomdata has signed a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel https://t.co/JkwAeRSW5L

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduces HPE Vertica 8 https://t.co/kTk4XroDzb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 1, 2016

GigaSpaces launches InsightEdge Apache Spark distribution https://t.co/2ZONII3xUy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 6, 2016

SAP launches BW/4HANA data warehouse application https://t.co/WZXHuDdlz0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

Teradata has become a global authorized reseller of SAS data management and analytics software. https://t.co/VqoWWjsk6a

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2016

MapR promotes COO Matt Mills to CEO, John Schroeder becomes executive chairman https://t.co/IpgRqYTNGj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2016

Tesora collaborates with Red Hat to deliver certified OpenStack-based Database as a Service platform https://t.co/PAQA8P3W3B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

IDERA announces GA of SQL Workload Analysis https://t.co/wSl1kiIcrg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 1, 2016

Cloudera – reportedly https://t.co/Aud1nGyXVn – asked Intel for $1 billion to build a cloud service

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.