March 22nd, 2012 — Data management
Oracle reports Q3. EMC acquires Pivotal Labs. ClearStoty launches. And much, much more.
An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.
* Oracle Reports Q3 GAAP EPS Up 20% to 49 Cents; Q3 Non-GAAP EPS Up 15% to 62 Cents Database and middleware revenue up 10%.
* EMC Goes Social, Open and Agile With Big Data EMC acquires Pivotal Labs, plans to release Chorus as an open source project
* ClearStory Data Launches With Investment From Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures
* HP Lead Big Data Exec Chris Lynch Resigns
* “Hortonworks Names Ari Zilka Chief Products Officer
* DataStax Enterprise 2.0 Adds Enterprise Search Capabilities to Smart Big Data Platform
* MapR Unveils Most Comprehensive Data Connection Options for Hadoop
* New Web-Based Alpine Illuminator Integrates with EMC Greenplum Chorus, The Social Data Science Platform
* RainStor and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights to Address Growing Big Data Challenges
* IBM Introduces New Predictive Analytics Services and Software to Reduce Fraud, Manage Financial Performance and Deliver Next Best Action
* Datameer Releases Major New Version of Analytics Platform
* Kognitio Announces Formation of “Kognitio Cloud” Business Unit
* HStreaming Announces Free Community Edition of Its Real-Time Analytics Platform for Hadoop
* Talend and MapR Announce Certification of Big Data Integration and Big Data Quality
* Schooner Information Technology Releases Membrain 4.0
* Gazzang Launches Big Data Encryption and Key Management Platform
* Logicworks Solves Big Data Hosting Challenges With New Infrastructure Services for Hadoop
* “Big Data” Among Most Confusing Tech Buzzwords
* For 451 Research clients
# Infochimps launches Chef-based platform for Hadoop deployment Impact Report
# Big-data security, or SIEM buzzword parity? Spotlight report
# DataStax adds enterprise search and elastic reprovisioning to database platform Market Development report
# With a new CEO and IBM as a reseller, Revolution Analytics charts next growth phase Market Development report
# Cray branches out, offering storage and a ‘big data’ appliance Market Development report
# CodeFutures sees a future beyond database sharding Market Development report
# Third time lucky for ScaleOut StateServer 5.0? Market Development report
# Attunity looks to 2012 for turnaround; up to the cloud and ‘big data’ movement Market Development report
# Panorama rides Microsoft’s coattails into in-memory social BI using SQL Server 2012 Market Development report
And that’s the Data Day, today.
February 29th, 2012 — Data management
February 3rd, 2012 — Data management
New CEO at Revolution. Pentaho goes big data. EMC Hadoop gets Isilon. And more.
An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.
* Revolution Analytics Names David Rich New CEO
* Pentaho Open Sources Big Data Capabilities to Further Fuel Widespread Adoption
* EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support
* Actuate Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results
* Sumo Logic Raises $15M Series B Round for Next Generation Log Management and Analytics
* Announcing Oracle R Enterprise 1.0
* Paul Cormier Joins Hortonworks’ Board of Directors
* DataStax Launches First Complete Solution for Cassandra Development on Windows and Mac
* Latest Release of Kalido Information Engine Eliminates Data Mart Migration and Consolidation Hassles
* Karmasphere Brings More Power, Collaboration, and Faster Insights to Big Data Analytics Teams on Hadoop
* Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty
* SAP HANA – slowly moving out of hype into actual projects
* For 451 Research clients
# Actuate gets ready to go shopping in the ‘big data’ mall Acquirer IQ
# Couchbase cites enterprise adoption, clarifies distributed NoSQL database strategy Impact report
# SpagoBI illuminates 2012 roadmap, takes open source model to US, Latin America Impact report
# Customer data analysis provider nPario combines big data and smart segmentation Impact report
# Tableau details 2012 growth strategy, gets semantic for visual analytics Market development report
# EMC integrates re-branded Hadoop distribution with Isilon NAS Market development report
# Quiterian seeks funding for new customer analytics in the cloud focus Market development report
# Hortonworks refines its commercial strategy for Apache Hadoop Market development report
# Digital Reasoning pledges to automate the analysis of complex data Market development report
And that’s the Data Day, today.
January 10th, 2012 — Data management
Oracle OEMs Cloudera. The future of Apache CouchDB. And more.
An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.
* Oracle announced the general availability of Big Data Appliance, and an OEM agreement with Cloudera for CDH and Cloudera Manager.
* The Future of Apache CouchDB Cloudant confirms intention to integrate the core capabilities of BigCouch into Apache CouchDB.
* Reinforcing Couchbase’s Commitment to Open Source and CouchDB Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold attempts to clear up any confusion.
* Hortonworks Appoints Shaun Connolly to Vice President of Corporate Strategy Former vice president of product strategy at VMware.
* Splunk even more data with 4.3 Introducing the latest Splunk release.
* Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster (alpha release) Based on Galera.
* Bringing Value of Big Data to Business: SAP’s Integrated Strategy Forbes interview with with Sanjay Poonen, President and corporate officer of SAP Global Solutions.
* New Release of Oracle Database Firewall Extends Support to MySQL and Enhances Reporting Capabilities Self-explanatory.
* Big data and the disruption curve “Many efforts are being funded by business units and not the IT department and money is increasingly being diverted from large enterprise vendors.”
* Get your SQL Server database ready for SQL Azure Microsoft “codename” SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment.
* An update on Apache Hadoop 1.0 Cloudera’s Charles Zedlewski helpfully explains Apache Hadoop branch numbering.
* Xeround and the CAP Theorem So where does Xeround fit in the CAP Theorem?
* Can Yahoo’s new CEO Thompson harness big data, analytics? Larry Dignan thinks Scott Thompson might just be the right guy for the job.
* US Companies Face Big Hurdles in ‘Big Data’ Use “21% of respondents were unsure how to best define Big Data”
* Schedule Your Agenda for 2012 NoSQL Events Alex Popescu updates his list of the year’s key NoSQL events.
* DataStax take Apache Cassandra Mainstream in 2011; Poised for Growth and Innovation in 2012 The usual momentum round-up from DataStax.
* Objectivity claimed significant growth in adoption of its graph database, InfiniteGraph and flagship object database, Objectivity/DB.
* Cloudera Connector for Teradata 1.0.0 Self-explanatory.
* For 451 Research clients
# SAS delivers in-memory analytics for Teradata and Greenplum Market Development report
# With $84m in funding, Opera sets out predictive-analytics plans Market Development report
* Google News Search outlier of the day: First Dagger Fencing Competition in the World Scheduled for January 14, 2012
And that’s the Data Day, today.
November 28th, 2011 — Data management
On Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 10am PT (6pm GMT) I’ll be taking part in a webinar with DataStax CTO and Apache Cassandra project chair Jonathan Ellis on the subject of Apache Cassandra: Real NoSQL Applications in the Enterprise Today.
The session will shed light on real-world use cases for NoSQL databases by providing case studies from enterprise production users taking advantage of the massively scalable and highly-available architecture of Apache Cassandra.
I’ll be summarising some of the findings from our NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond research report, and exploring the drivers behind the development and adoption of NoSQL databases – explaining how the failure of existing suppliers to meet the performance, scalability and flexibility needs of large-scale data processing has led to the development and adoption of alternative data management technologies.
Jonathan will provide more detail on Apache Cassandra and DataStax, including a number of real-world projects including Netflix, Backupify, Ooyala and Constant Contact.
You can register for the event here and find more details about our NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond research report here.
November 15th, 2011 — Data management
451 Research has today published a report looking at the funding being invested in Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL database-related vendors. The full report is available to clients, but below is a snapshot of the report, along with a graphic representation of the recent up-tick in funding.
According to our figures, between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2010 $95.8m had been invested in the various Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL-related vendors. That figure now stands at more than $350.8m, up 266%.
That statistic does not really do justice to the sudden uptick of interest, however. The figures indicate that funding for Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL-related firms has more than doubled since the end of August, at which point the total stood at $157.5m.
A substantial reason for that huge jump is the staggering $84m series A funding round raised by Apache Hadoop-based analytics service provider Opera Solutions.
The original commercial supporter of Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, has also contributed strongly with a recent $40m series D round. In addition, MapR Technologies raised $20m to invest in its Apache Hadoop distribution, while we know that Hortonworks also raised a substantial round (unconfirmed, but reportedly $20m) from Benchmark Capital and former parent Yahoo as it was spun off in June. Index Ventures also recently announced that it has become an investor in Hortonworks.
I am reliably informed that if you factor in Hortonworks’ two undisclosed rounds, the total funding for Hadoop and NoSQL vendors is actually closer to $400m.
The various NoSQL database providers have also played a part in the recent burst of investment, with 10gen raising a $20m series D round and Couchbase raising $15m. DataStax, which has interests in both Apache Cassandra and Apache Hadoop, raised an $11m series B round, while Neo Technology raised a $10.6m series A round. Basho Technologies raised $12.5m in series D funding in three chunks during 2011.
Additionally, there are a variety of associated players, including Hadoop-based analytics providers such as Datameer, Karmasphere and Zettaset, as well as hosted NoSQL firms such as MongoLab, MongoHQ and Cloudant.
One investor company name that crops up more than most in the list above is Accel Partners, which was an original investor in both Cloudera and Couchbase, and backed Opera Solutions via its Accel- KKR joint venture with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
It appears that those investments have merely whetted Accel’s appetite for big data, however, as the firm last week announced a $100m Big Data Fund to invest in new businesses targeting storage, data management and analytics, as well as data-centric applications and tools.
While Accel is the fist VC shop that we are aware of to create a fund specifically for big data investments, we are confident both that it won’t be the last and that other VCs have already informally earmarked funds for data-related investments.
451 clients can get more details on funding and M&A involving more traditional database vendors, as well as our perspective on potential M&A suitors for the Hadoop and NoSQL players.
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