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.

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.

You’ll never believe what happened in data and analytics this week

For @451Research clients: @Tableau hints at wider analytics role as version 10 enters beta testing https://t.co/QCO5TrtT0n

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2016

For @451Research clients: @DoYewno gets $10m series A for knowledge discovery mapping offering https://t.co/CzLTzO19ML By Krishno Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2016

For @451Research clients: @VeristormInc expands focus from mainframe to cloud data integration https://t.co/NqskN3Ukwv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 20, 2016

Francisco Partners and Elliott Management to acquire the Dell Software Group https://t.co/uscvJsBBJZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 20, 2016

Trifacta deepens technical integration with Hortonworks Data Platform, integrates with Apache Atlas and Ranger https://t.co/823kiTViYh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2016

Software AG has announced Apama Community Edition, a free version of the Apama Streaming Analytics platform https://t.co/nm6dmjkXPN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2016

MicroStrategy announces the general availability of MicroStrategy 10.4 https://t.co/05QCGevjnR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2016

DataStax announces DataStax Enterprise 5.0, including OpsCenter 6.0, and DataStax Enterprise Graph https://t.co/s1ExxP5ARF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 21, 2016

Couchbase announces the general availability of Couchbase Server 4.5. https://t.co/3jQKYNvYaz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 22, 2016

BlueData updates EPIC to run on public clouds https://t.co/n7nRmZzAWs, adds one-click install for Docker images https://t.co/TLBrTzAA6y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 22, 2016

Digital Reasoning has announced the availability of Synthesys 4 https://t.co/YpSuzXQYrf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 21, 2016

Kyvos Insights updates Kyvos OLAP-on-Hadoop offering to version 2.0 https://t.co/evnwMUGY2o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 22, 2016

ClearDB announces Data Services Platform, new executive team https://t.co/p8Zn0DZ6Yf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 21, 2016

NoSQL database technology finds use cases, but still minority sport https://t.co/sTR854NmVA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 20, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Funding for Pivotal and Digital Reasoning. And more.

For @451Research clients: @dreasoning raises $40m series D to invest in text-analytics platform https://t.co/CxjA69mnYV By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 5, 2016

For @451Research clients: M&A still a key driver as @OpenText aims to be single source of truth https://t.co/RIUM3R1Oi7 By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 3, 2016

For @451Research clients: With graph growing, Neo Technology releases 'foundational' update of @Neo4j https://t.co/fQkVNrhqKs By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 3, 2016

For @451Research clients: @X15Soft focuses on real-time machine data analytics https://t.co/rqtC8ewJX4 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 3, 2016

For @451Research clients: @VoyagerSearch looks to put geographic search within users' reach https://t.co/LoIUm6TnIJ By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2016

Pivotal announces $253m Series C funding led by Ford Motor Company, with Microsoft and existing investors. https://t.co/3fEZpRVtZN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 5, 2016

Digital Reasoning raises $40m series D round led by Lemhi Ventures and Nasdaq https://t.co/ov5EsKHF7h

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 3, 2016

Teradata reports a net loss of $46m on Q1 revenue down 6% to $545m ($511m excluding marketing applications) https://t.co/IzufW6GtNK (PDF)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 5, 2016

Teradata has appointed Victor Lund as President and CEO, replacing Mike Koehler with immediate effect. https://t.co/FYnVxMkWdU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 5, 2016

Tableau reports a net loss of $45.6m on Q1 revenue up 32% to $171.7m https://t.co/nzkGqCbg7S

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2016

Hortonworks reports a net loss of $65.8m on Q1 revenue up 85% to $41.3m. https://t.co/xjRuoPzVJO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 5, 2016

Attunity reports a net loss of $3.6m on Q1 revenue up 13% to $11.7m. https://t.co/vNccvtpWI3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 5, 2016

Microsoft confirms SQL Server 2016 will be generally available on June 1, 2016. https://t.co/YFiNIQWAg2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 2, 2016

Qlik Introduces Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 https://t.co/fgT7gH6L34

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 3, 2016

Alteryx announces Alteryx Analytics 10.5 https://t.co/7vtKk46Gdw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 5, 2016

Basho’s Riak TS (Time Series) is now officially open source https://t.co/YrXaJp3Voc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 5, 2016

RT @WSJ: Is the tech bubble popping? Ping pong may offer an answer https://t.co/oMjv6VN9gY pic.twitter.com/fyUDWOyOOv

— Dave Kellogg (@Kellblog) May 4, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Teradata and Cloudera strengthen partnership. And more.

For @451Research clients: @Splunk gives Hunk a makeover, unveils cloud service and Amazon OEM deal http://t.co/zn2FQGErvj By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 8, 2014

For @451Research clients: @couchbase launches major update to distributed document database with version 3.0 http://t.co/yG4cl7ZwVT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

For @451Research clients: @ScaleArc updates database traffic management software for Oracle http://t.co/2iiVnPvRgc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 8, 2014

For @451Research clients: @AdvizorSolution seeks funding, heads deeper into predictive analytics http://t.co/Ocu1BJuXGD By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Linguamatics looks to federated text-analysis architecture http://t.co/Rs1Pri1BYt By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

Cloudera and Teradata extend partnership http://t.co/iTfSSy6gXU "in response to customer demand" seems to be the key sentence here.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

Teradata has announced Teradata Cloud for Hadoop http://t.co/SenSxvC5LC and Teradata Loom 2.3 http://t.co/cu5Dkns9U5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

Splunk introduces Splunk Enterprise 6.2 http://t.co/ymwzUxBHb6 integrates Hunk with Amazon Elastic MapReduce http://t.co/I30Bbslqxj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2014

Digital Reasoning has raised $24m in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse NEXT Investors. http://t.co/Ridq1YaY7m

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

Zoomdata raises $17m Series B funding round led by Accel Partners. http://t.co/aaY3ctnxBu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2014

Amazon Web Services introduces native support for the JSON document model in DynamoDB http://t.co/UwgIq2yqE9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

Software AG updates Apama Streaming Analytics platform. http://t.co/a3OIFZEv2E

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2014

Trifacta has announced the release of the Trifacta Data Transformation Platform v2. http://t.co/cqZqlF1rrp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

Couchbase and Xamarin have announced general availability of the jointly developed Couchbase Lite for .NET. http://t.co/2ZmfgXkb6m

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2014

Altiscale launches SQL-on-Hadoop offering for the Altiscale Data Cloud. http://t.co/74rFAgRgWG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 8, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Funding for NGDATA. Sqrrl partners with Hortonworks. And more.

NGDATA Closes $2.5M in Funding to Fuel Global Expansion bit.ly/T0Z1Zr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 3, 2012

sqrrl and @hortonworks partner to certify Apache #Accumulo with Hortonworks Data Platform bit.ly/UbwQ0J

— sqrrl (@sqrrl_inc) October 3, 2012

@dreasoning has partnered with @oracle to integrate unstructured data analytics with Oracle’s Big Data Appliance bit.ly/T0Zg6O

— Digital Reasoning (@dreasoning) October 3, 2012

More data on big data: analysis of big data-related Twitter posts slidesha.re/Ue0Yst

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 3, 2012

“BellaDati is an agile analytics and reporting cloud tool inspired by gorgeous Isola Bella island located near Sicily.” mwne.ws/T0Z2N3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 3, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

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.