Cloudera launches Impala. Actuate snags Quiterian. Microsoft previews HDInsight.

For 451 Research clients: Cloudera launches Impala project for real-time Hadoop analytics bit.ly/R3l1mk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Actuate snags Quiterian to plug advanced analytics and visualization hole bit.ly/OZWtOO By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: Continuing its M&A software push, Dell moves into ‘big data’ analytics via Kitenga buy bit.ly/R3l95k By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2012

For 451 Research clients: MapR delivers enhanced HBase database with M7 Edition of Hadoop bit.ly/OZWEd4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: RainStor accelerates direct sales approach following $12m funding round bit.ly/OZVRsD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Platfora exits stealth mode with self-service in-memory BI for Hadoop bit.ly/OZWJxo By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Cloudant adds search to cloud database service, targets intelligence community bit.ly/OZVWMZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: BigML revs machine-learning-based cloud service with predictive model marketplace bit.ly/OZW2nK By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: Cleversafe seeks to take object storage into ‘big data’ era with Hadoop offering bit.ly/OZWbYr By @simonrob451

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Versant brings the Java Persistence API to its object database with Versant JPA bit.ly/OZW7b8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: EMC open-sources Greenplum Chorus platform for collaborative analytics bit.ly/OZWAtQ Analyst note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

And the rest:
– Microsoft previewed its Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows.

– SAP launched a new “big data” bundle and go-to-market strategy.

– Informatica introduced Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition and reported its third quarter results.

– Also announcing financial results last week were QlikTech and Pervasive.

– Teradata updated its Unity suite with the addition of Unity Loader, and introduced its Unified Data Environment and the Unified Data Architecture.

– Splunk confirmed the release of Splunk Hadoop Connect and the Splunk App for HadoopOps.

– 10gen added five vice presidents to its management team.

– Rackspace partnered with Hortonworks to create OpenStack and Hadoop-based offerings for public and private cloud.

– Talend added support for Cassandra, HBase and MongoDB , and introduced big data profiling for Apache Hadoop to its integration platform

– MarkLogic announced support for HDFS and expanded its relationship with Hortonworks.

– Kognitio adopted a free licensing model.

– Calpont launched InfiniDB 3.5.

– MetaMarkets announced that it is open sourcing its Druid streaming, real-time data store.

– YarcData updated its uRiKA Big Data appliance for graph analytics.

– Alpine Data Labs announced a global OEM partnership with QlikTech.

– Actian and Attunity announced Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise.

And that’s the Data Day, today.