Splunk goes public. SkySQL and Connotate raise funding. And more.
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* Splunk Prices Initial Public Offering 13,500,000 shares at $17.00 per share = $229.5m.
* Connotate Increases Momentum and Closes $7m Series B Round
* SkySQL Raises $4 million in Series A Round
* SAND Technology Announces Exploration of Potential Strategic Alternatives
* GoodData Closes out the Quarter With Increased Revenue Growth and Expanded Market Traction
* World’s Largest Telcos Adopt Graph Databases to Solve Connected Data Issues
* Gazzang Seizes Big Data Opportunity, Announces Record Quarter and Year over Year Growth
* Hadapt Adds Big Data Industry Veteran Christopher Lynch as Chairman of the Board of Directors
* Cloudant Data Layer as a Service Adds Support for Joyent Cloud
* GoGrid Introduces a High-Performance Platform for Predictive Analytics
* MongoDB Hadoop Connector Announced
* StreamBase Releases StreamBase LiveView 1.0
* Pervasive RushAnalyzer and Cloudera Eliminate Barriers to Rapid Hadoop ROI
* Pegasystems Announces Hadoop Big Data Support
* XtremeData Hires Former IBM Analytics Leader
* Lucid Imagination Announces General Availability of LucidWorks Enterprise 2.1
* Of open data and pregnant men
* MySQL in 2012: Report from Percona Live
* For 451 Research clients
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# Basho expands into cloud storage with Riak CS Impact Report
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# QlikTech takes QlikView pricing out of the dark Impact Report
# Kitenga refreshes Hadoop-based content-analysis wares; finds rollouts a slow burn Impact Report
# CoreMedia looks to NoSQL to scale social experiences for its WCM platform Impact Report
# Boundary maps monitoring for ‘big data’ as its path to enterprise Impact Report
# Orchestra to add data quality notes to MDM ensemble as it continues to eye US growth Impact Report
# Columnar database provider SAND Technology puts itself up for sale M&A Insight
# Is it time for Microsoft to ditch partners for performance management and go shopping? Acquirer IQ
And that’s the Data Day, today.