The Data Day, Today: May 18 2012

SAP expands HANA. Informatica embraces big data. Gary Bloom joins MarkLogic. And more.

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# Informatica 9.5: ‘big data’ runs through the integration platform makeover Impact Report

# Lucid Imagination launches search-based ‘big data’ platform Impact Report

# Datameer updates Hadoop-based BI stack with an eye to more complex analysis Impact Report

# MarkLogic searches for operational analytics role with plans for SQL, MapReduce support Impact Report

# Infobright shines following shift to machine-generated data Impact Report

# Starcounter focuses on performance with in-memory database update Impact Report

# Guavus bears fruit with data-processing platform for communications operators Impact Report

# InsightSquared bags $4.5m series A funding and salesforce.com as an investor Impact Report

# MarkLogic names veteran exec Gary Bloom as new president and CEO Analyst note

* SAP Continues to Expand Capabilities and Scale of SAP HANA Platform and Ease Developer Adoption

* SAP HANA Offers Multi-Node Capabilities to Help Customers Scale Out

* Gary Bloom Joins MarkLogic as Chief Executive Officer

* Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

* Informatica 9.5 Unleashes the Power of Hadoop

* Informatica Brings Master Data Management to Big Data, Social, Cloud and Mobile Computing

* Talend Announces New Release of Enterprise Open Source Integration Platform

* Lucid Imagination Combines Search, Analytics and Big Data to Tackle the Problem of Dark Data

* Big Data Refinery Fuels Next-Generation Data Architecture

* 7 Key Drivers for the Big Data Market

* Google puts a price tag on Cloud SQL services

* Actuate and Hortonworks Collaborate to Visualize Big Data

* Hadapt and Cloudera Deliver Big Data Analytics with Apache Hadoop

* Cloudera Partners With Hadoop Managed Services Provider MetaScale to Help Large Traditional Enterprises Adopt Apache Hadoop

* Opera Solutions’ Big Analytics Tailor Made for SAP HANA: Signal Hub Technology

* Cloudant to Contribute Big Data Capabilities to Apache CouchDB Project

* Hortonworks and Kognitio Announce Technical Partnership

* Starcounter Unveils World’s Fastest Consistent Database

* XAP 9.0 – Geared for Real-Time Big Data Stream Processing

* How long before R overtakes SAS and SPSS?

* Betting big on live sports data, Perform lays €120 million on RunningBall

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Feb 8 2012

SAP targets HANA at SMEs. WibiData raises $5m. Zimory acquires Sones devs. And more.

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* SAP to Arm Small and Midsize Enterprises With Real-Time Analytics Powered by SAP HANA

* Hadoop startup WibiData raises $5M to power web analytics

* Zimory Acquires Database Development Team from Sones

* Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Advanced Analytics for Big Data

* Kalido Fuels Growth with New Customers, Market Leading Data Governance Capabilities in 2011

* Xeround Announces Free Version of Popular Cloud Database

* Hypertable Inc. Announces New Products and Services for Next Generation Hadoop NoSQL Database Deployments

* Cloudera Connector for Tableau Has Been Released

* Information Builders Launches WebFOCUS Hyperstage to Speed Performance and Delivery of Business Intelligence

* Actian Releases Vectorwise Workgroup Edition, Claims Best in Affordable Big Data Analytics to Mid-Market

* 10gen and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Leading NoSQL Solution to Government Sector

* MySQL progress in a year

* Endeca CEO: We wanted IPO, but Oracle acquisition gave peace of mind

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# Armed with fresh funding, Tidemark looks to churn up performance management waters Impact Report

# Cloudant seizes opportunity for greater involvement with CouchDB Market Development report

# Xeround details cloud database pricing, launches free option Market Development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Feb 3 2012

New CEO at Revolution. Pentaho goes big data. EMC Hadoop gets Isilon. And more.

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* 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

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# 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.