Salesforce acquires MuleSoft for approximately $6.5bn. And more.

For @451Research clients: In its largest-ever acquisition, @salesforce reins in @MuleSoft https://t.co/j28ErLW60K By @skingstone @DenneTweets and @CarlLehmann1

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 22, 2018

For @451Research clients: Total Data market projected to reach $146bn by 2022 https://t.co/H7620PXrqf The fastest-growing subsegments illustrate the shift toward distributed data processing along with artificial intelligence, including machine learning and deep learning.

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 20, 2018

For @451Research clients: @IBM paves path to enterprise AI with new cloud services, data science consulting https://t.co/ZRjEDVZ7DW By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 23, 2018

For @451Research clients: @sirensearch https://t.co/1LbaW19rK6 calls for data intelligence driven by semantic models and knowledge graphs

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 19, 2018

For @451Research clients: How online retailer @Ocado uses AI and machine learning to drive and protect its business https://t.co/NiyKsjE5gu By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 23, 2018

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MuleSoft for approximately $6.5bn to power the new Salesforce Integration Cloud. https://t.co/tO60eAhkwW

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 21, 2018

Digital Reasoning has raised $30m led by BNP Paribas along with Barclays, Square Capital, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, Lemhi Ventures, HCA, and the Partnership Fund for New York City. https://t.co/v3xi0lzfhp

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 21, 2018

Fauna raises$25m Series A funding from Capital One Growth Ventures, GV, and Point72 Ventures https://t.co/cdqpWFHBIF

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 21, 2018

Matillion has closed a $20 million Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures with Scale Venture Partners https://t.co/9zY6bCjpgg

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 22, 2018

ClearStory Data has closed a series C funding round of nearly $15m https://t.co/7Wk9Jz48N5

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 20, 2018

Microsoft previews Common Data Service for Analytics in Power BI https://t.co/1zLTD8c9K0

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 21, 2018

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Databricks https://t.co/QFLgGd1hAG

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 22, 2018

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL. https://t.co/dci1bpN5iw

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 21, 2018

Arcadia Data has announced the general availability of its next major release of Arcadia Enterprise and Arcadia Instant. https://t.co/N7zLuh8spR

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 21, 2018

For @451Research clients: @Percona stays true to open source database strategy as it rolls out updates https://t.co/qOF0n8kdmO By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 20, 2018

Io-Tahoe has announced the general availability of its machine learning-driven data discovery platform https://t.co/cUNMCLzrUy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 19, 2018

ScyllaDB introduces Scylla Manager to improve the manageability and reduces the administration of Scylla deployments https://t.co/smmcg9UFMI

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 21, 2018

IBM has announced the launch of IBM Watson Data Kits, designed to accelerate the development of AI applications https://t.co/O7eWes3HJS

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 23, 2018

And that’s the data day, today.