The meaning and importance of #automation in data-centric environments. And more.

For @451Research clients: The meaning and importance of #automation in data-centric environments https://t.co/PjMk46Rz8h In which @jmscrts and I take a look at the variety of ways in which automation is affecting the database and data management landscape.

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 24, 2019

For @451Research clients: #Datascience: What is it, and why now? https://t.co/3d3d7YMG29 Krishna Roy kicks off a series of reports on data science users and use cases, the software required and other considerations for success.

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 25, 2019

For @451Research clients: Architectural data control: Turning privacy requirements into a blessing, not a curse https://t.co/ciqy7f2rAY By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2019

For @451Research clients: #Graph that, Part 3: AI and graph – perfect match or odd couple? https://t.co/wqyYYa3ctk In which @jmscrts weighs up the potential advantages inherent limitations of graph for AI use cases

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 14, 2019

For @451Research clients: Mobility is piloting on the #blockchain https://t.co/U6bNeezh6F By @csillazsigri451 and @xianrenaud

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 24, 2019

For @451Research clients: @qlik elevates data management story with launch of Data Catalyst 4.0 https://t.co/J2cPEtkLXA

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2019

For @451Research clients: @TimescaleDB tackles time series workloads with PostgreSQL extension https://t.co/dajOyZ7OwL BY @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2019

For @451Research clients: @OctopaiBI extends its tentacles beyond automated metadata management for BI https://t.co/V4nI03uPUQ

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 21, 2019

For @451Research clients: @macrometacorp emerges with planetary-scale database for apps and web services at the edge https://t.co/JrOFDYcl1Z

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2019

For @451Research clients: @AntWorksGlobal completes RPA toolset, will iterate fractal ANTstein platform this quarter https://t.co/c3pHdJ3Adv By @wif

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 25, 2019

For @451Research clients: Autonomy-level classification for robots in an IIoT world https://t.co/BirRqUr1vk By @epredator

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 21, 2019

For @451Research clients: AI and voice-enabled applications will change how we work in 2019 https://t.co/ppGjohAX2b By @rcastanonm

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 21, 2019

Confluent has closed a $125m series D funding round led by Sequoia Capital https://t.co/ytq4aVMqHg

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2019

Alation has announced a $50m series C funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with Salesforce Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Data Collective, Harmony Partners, and Icon Ventures. https://t.co/pnzBtauenG

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 17, 2019

Seldon has raised a £2.7m funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners with Global Brain Corporation, Techstars and other existing investors, for its machine learning deployment software. https://t.co/0WQERdDYh6

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2019

Teradata has announced the appointment of Oliver Ratzesberger as president and CEO https://t.co/ya6CVMaz9k

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 15, 2019

Information Builders appoints Frank Vella as Chief Executive Officer, with founder and former CEO Gerald Cohen becoming chairman of the board https://t.co/4NUUu6IoPj

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 18, 2019

Microsoft has acquired Citus Data to boost Azure PostgreSQL performance and scale https://t.co/JnmEPgsCjU

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 24, 2019

Qlik has acquired Crunch Data and its CrunchBot analytics bot to expand the company’s conversational analytics capabilities https://t.co/aShVAm7mKV

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 22, 2019

Guavus has acquired real-time streaming analytics specialist SQLstream https://t.co/ZkzM5nUz0q

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 25, 2019

Qlik launches version 4.0 of Qlik Data Catalyst data management product (previously known as Podium Data). https://t.co/DlwCmxl7Jq

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 15, 2019

Accelerite has announced ShareInsights 3.0 for non-developer data analysts, including unification of visualization and management for Athena, EMR, Redshift, Kinesis, Elasticsearch and SageMaker https://t.co/DrppeBlPDo

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 16, 2019

The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Hadoop v3.2.0 https://t.co/nNqFYKxGxp

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 23, 2019

Amazon Web Services has open sourced the code behind its SageMaker Neo machine learning training feature via the Neo-AI project. https://t.co/J3fXuSYGWZ

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 25, 2019

And that’s the Data Day, today.