I have tremendous respect for data and analytics and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy.

For @451Research clients: @Salesforce Spring 17 release unleashes Einstein in apps and beyond https://t.co/VzlfuiSLym By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Collibra seeks role as system of record for data governance following $50m series C https://t.co/ztf1Z7eKB9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

For @451Research clients: @qlik sheds light on its strategy and roadmap for cloud visual analysis https://t.co/FzhIwO0x4d By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

For @451Research clients: @MapR serves up stateful storage with its Docker-specific container platform https://t.co/p53xOrAemm By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 6, 2017

For @451Research clients: @RedisLabs harmonizes branding for open source in-memory data platform https://t.co/nX8CtvO7ij By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 6, 2017

For @451Research clients: @arcadiadata focuses on enabling data-driven apps, international expansion https://t.co/nRmQeZRbLE BY Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

For @451Research clients: @TeamAnodot looks to take business-incident detection international https://t.co/ZRI3AklbQS By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

For @451Research clients: Open source database firm @Percona launches new MongoDB bundle https://t.co/kzKjpWkHM1 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

For @451Research clients: Predixion's edge analytics help @GreenwaveSys tackle Industrial IoT https://t.co/7YqcsAjVZC By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Attunity updates data warehouse automation offering, cites growing demand for data lakes https://t.co/0waao1Mxsr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 6, 2017

Cloudera Said to Tap Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, BofA for IPO https://t.co/0lz1DzmqBz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 10, 2017

Confluent raises $50m led by Sequoia and involving Benchmark and Index Ventures https://t.co/W7taFl61yC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

ScyllaDB closes $16m series B funding for Apache Cassandra drop-in replacement https://t.co/LRfbBIUDPh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

Prevedere raises $10m series B funding led by Norwest Venture Partners https://t.co/UMXQ8aR7VJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

IBM and Salesforce announce artificial intelligence partnership integrating IBM Watson and Salesforce Einstein https://t.co/gBvCLHhtna

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Salesforce adds Einstein AI across its portfolio with the launch of Salesforce Spring ‘17 Release https://t.co/FdJygBWBrB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

SAP/Google strategic partnership includes general availability of HANA on Google Cloud Platform https://t.co/2nQx16BnWL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

Google announces Cloud Video Intelligence API, Cloud Machine Learning updates https://t.co/YEg8EdjbJ7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

Google Cloud Platform launches Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, improved support for MySQL and SQL Server Enterprise https://t.co/ZnaFT8nuex

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Google Cloud Platform launches Google Cloud Dataprep and BigQuery Data Transfer Service https://t.co/Nvi94DmCr7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Google Cloud Dataprep is based on Trifacta’s interface and Photon Compute Framework https://t.co/bHBgM7cCQn https://t.co/2AFxUaJ5aH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is now available in the cloud, with Oracle Cloud at Customer, and on-premises. https://t.co/qBwkvMkxVq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Informatica introduces Informatica Cloud Data Lake Management https://t.co/TZTAuiOuGq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Informatica announces the integration of Informatica Cloud with Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL. https://t.co/9vJzOwHxWv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Teradata launches IntelliCloud managed cloud offering based on Teradata Database, Aster Analytics, or Hadoop. https://t.co/BtVWY22ywx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Talend updates Data Preparation, now powered by Apache Beam. https://t.co/kWtjhiJIPD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Teradata announces Kylo, an open source data lake management platform developed and supported by Think Big Analytics https://t.co/59TsVVjnrd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

MongoDB has added a new free tier for its database as a service offering, MongoDB Atlas. https://t.co/YPDuXGQ8DF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

AtScale announces the general availability of AtScale 5.0. https://t.co/RDqCSALcU1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Attivio has achieved profitability for the first time in its history. https://t.co/f4JMbNfqCJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 6, 2017

BlueData has announced the spring release of its BlueData EPIC Big-Data-as-a-Service platform https://t.co/1AI4U8IUuf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Pepperdata adds Pepperdata Application Profiler amid increased focus on DevOps for Big Data. https://t.co/8ujYZlX1JD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Pivotal launches Datometry Hyper-Q for Pivotal Data Suite, enabling Teradata workloads to run on Pivotal Greenplum https://t.co/0zAxxxF0kF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

Galactic Exchange launches the cloud version of ClusterGX Spark/Hadoop clustering platform on AWS https://t.co/Ap6pUYDvGS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 8, 2017

Galactic Exchange announces DataEnchilada, an AI-powered data ingestion tool for ClusterGX. https://t.co/82NZCHUCeZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 9, 2017

Cinchapi releases beta version of Cinchapi Data Platform https://t.co/cAjyuK37NY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 7, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

You know what data and analytics is, right? Like lots of things are done with data and analytics. Including some bad things.

For @451Research clients: @Pivotal pitches @springcloud Data Flow for continuous data processing https://t.co/F2z9CQDiUB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 14, 2017

For @451Research clients: Collaborative business intelligence: a diamond that has yet to sparkle https://t.co/ul37pdhlhO By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2017

For @451Research clients: @waterlinedata expands footprint to relational databases with Smart Data Catalog 4.0 https://t.co/tc62Lv99mR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2017

For @451Research clients: #Machinelearning and AI at the heart of @Infosys' transformation https://t.co/jsDqZrfWTC By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 14, 2017

For @451Research clients: @arangodb secures new funding, doubles down on multi-model database strategy https://t.co/J6z2WBGmsw By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2017

For @451Research clients: @NaraLogics focuses its neural network on intelligent recommendations https://t.co/lwj6NEG0bh By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 14, 2017

Google announces the public beta for Cloud Spanner, a globally distributed relational database service https://t.co/2HogjqjmGB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 14, 2017

Adaptive Insights reports that it reached $80m revenue in 2016. https://t.co/uOGW4IFWF6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 15, 2017

Infogix has acquired cloud-based data governance provider Data3Sixty. https://t.co/b6kgshzpAl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2017

Google has announced TensorFlow 1.0 https://t.co/O0as8LaLuD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2017

IBM makes Watson’s machine learning capabilities available on-premises, starting with IBM z System Mainframe https://t.co/TB3yO1WgwI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 15, 2017

Attunity introduces Compose 3.0 for agile data warehouse automation https://t.co/ZZXrSrxTIa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 14, 2017

SnapLogic introduces the Winter 2017 release of the SnapLogic Enterprise Integration Cloud. https://t.co/hc1MGv3KS0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 15, 2017

Waterline Data releases Smart Data Catalog 4.0, adding support for cataloging data located in relational databases https://t.co/6jN4WTYsjg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 15, 2017

Couchbase updates data platform including Couchbase Server 4.6 https://t.co/yEXwANekaG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2017

Wipro delivers Data Discovery Platform, based on IBM BigInsights, IBM dashDB and IBM Bluemix https://t.co/ymGhnyA8Qv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 15, 2017

IBM and Hortonworks announced the planned availability of HDP for IBM Elastic Storage Server and IBM Spectrum Scale. https://t.co/B4WWGQfi4n

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2017

Oracle launches Oracle Data Integrator Cloud service. https://t.co/2UdBRa6dak

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 14, 2017

Syncsort updates DMX-h with integrated workflow capabilities and Spark 2.0 integration https://t.co/hDmJ4mMz9p

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2017

WhereScape names Neil Barton (currently senior architect focused on big data solutions) chief technology officer https://t.co/cFFElDBuPn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 14, 2017

EnterpriseDB releases EDB Postgres Platform 2017 https://t.co/nmSmhdzQfn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2017

Inside Cloud Spanner and the CAP Theorem https://t.co/8ZnP4oa1f4 by @eric_brewer – who should know a thing or two about it https://t.co/LhYPcqBeLw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 14, 2017

Spanner, TrueTime & The CAP Theorem – white paper version https://t.co/YMKDg9dy3a (pdf)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 15, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

Prepare to be amazed by what happened in data and analytics this week.

For @451Research clients: The AI spring will herald a surge in machine-learning-related M&A https://t.co/0Pz59mOsZo By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 24, 2016

For @451Research clients: @googlecloud creates machine-learning group, describes new GCP features https://t.co/2XYYNS3OVf By Peter Christy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 22, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Syncsort adds data-quality capabilities with acquisition of @TrilliumSW https://t.co/amGAUpd7U9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Qlik sets out investment priorities to expand beyond visual analysis https://t.co/jYGgPye5S9 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @BirstBI moves into DIY data prep, machine learning https://t.co/ZxklXDyFCk By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2016

For @451Research clients: New modules from @RedisLabs mix machine learning with NoSQL https://t.co/tYlyjJaTxv By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 22, 2016

For @451Research clients: @awscloud enables interactive SQL querying of data in S3 with Amazon Athena https://t.co/n043K1jFHO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2016

For @451Research clients: @awscloud unveils three new machine-learning services https://t.co/UWEgDxgZBG By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2016

For @451Research clients: @BigStepInc offers a full big-data stack on optimized bare-metal https://t.co/c5UV21E8X1 By @jeanatelsek

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 24, 2016

Software AG has acquired predictive analytics and machine learning provider Zementis https://t.co/XQUeqSsI4B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 2, 2016

Clearlake Capital-backed Syncsort acquires Trillium Software https://t.co/6xEMzXhYPT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 30, 2016

Domino Data has raised a $10.5m funding round led by Sequoia Capital. https://t.co/y2fUoCtk2P

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 21, 2016

ArangoDB closes €2.2m investment led by Target Partners https://t.co/tnexFdPkem

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 24, 2016

Splunk reports a net loss of $93.5m on 3Q revenue up 40% to $245m. https://t.co/iOBJij9eNX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 30, 2016

AWS introduces Amazon Athena, providing interactive SQL Queries for data in Amazon S3, based on Presto https://t.co/xreGo3L5fj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 30, 2016

AWS announces three new artificial intelligence services for image analysis, conversational interfaces and speech https://t.co/WDiO3VBf6t

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2016

AWS expands Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL-compatible option https://t.co/eqogfU7rAX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2016

Amazon Web Services introduces AWS Glue, a fully managed ETL and data catalog service https://t.co/Izgm0U5WMw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 2, 2016

Birst launches Birst 6 analytics platform with self-service data preparation capabilities https://t.co/rGToXA72gf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 30, 2016

IBM has launched IBM Decision Optimization, Bluemix Lift and dashDB for Transactions https://t.co/NMxD54rl4N

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 21, 2016

Microsoft updates Analytics Platform System with SQL Server 2016 https://t.co/DJZaf3cWit

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 29, 2016

Splice Machine launches version 2.5 of its hybrid relational data platform https://t.co/9bOYnpxoFU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 29, 2016

Attunity introduces Compose for Amazon Redshift https://t.co/fT8DVkDwNO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 30, 2016

Apache Geode is now a top level project of the Apache Software Foundation https://t.co/si4jx6GkuZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 21, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Make Data Platform and Analytics Great Again

For @451Research clients: The 7 vectors of data platform decision-making and why they matter, Pt 1 https://t.co/j4rqvsZgpe By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 9, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM's World of Watson is one of ownership and deep understanding of data https://t.co/QmtFk231Rh By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM brands new data analytics platform as the @IBMWatson Data Platform https://t.co/Fasjls5aVo By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 9, 2016

For @451Research clients @Cloudera doubles down with Director update, Spark download as Kudu turns 1.0 https://t.co/KlmNRUPZZU By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

For @451Research clients: Neo Technology takes in $36m, revamps clustering architecture on @Neo4j https://t.co/yVOMmjosNG By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2016

For @451Research clients: @TreasureData positions as Live Data Management platform provider, raises $25m https://t.co/D1ODuRhClD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Pentaho integrates visualization and data preparation with latest update https://t.co/4fJularRy3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

Neo Technology raises $36m in series D funding from Greenbridge Investment Partners and existing investors https://t.co/Pjzl2RTbxZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2016

Treasure Data launches Live Data Management Platform, raises $25M series C funding https://t.co/rWMFtficli

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 7, 2016

SAP announces SAP HANA 2 https://t.co/prUtmnTZd3, updates SAP BusinessObjects Analytics portfolio https://t.co/gi1wKTJ1De

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

Tableau announces Hyper data engine, Project Maestro data prep product, Tableau Server for Linux https://t.co/1R0XzO3dZZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

Striim launches version 3.6 of its real-time data integration and streaming analytics platform. https://t.co/l277TrKN95

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2016

Couchbase adds full text search and real-time analytics to NoSQL database https://t.co/22rlXLJQuP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 8, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

What happened in data platforms and analytics this week will give you chills.

For @451Research clients: 2017 Trends in Data Platforms and Analytics https://t.co/GczBOAPcVh #ml #spark #selfservice #cpm #datagrid

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 4, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SASsoftware enhances JMP desktop tool with self-service prep and analysis https://t.co/6d0EOjcCCY By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 2, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Alation prepares connectivity layer, highlights focus on Data Catalog for data stewards https://t.co/94JuGoYTDI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Wipro detects major #machinelearning opportunities with Holmes https://t.co/J6CZzBxMzL #AI $WIPRO

— Nick Patience (@nickpatience) November 3, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM taps into DIY-governed analysis, 'analytics inside' trend https://t.co/MnWJy3ii1d By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: @nutonian doubles down on machine-learning predictive analysis https://t.co/SbkJa3el61 … By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: Armed with $5.7m in funding, @BonsaiAI seeks to serve deep-learning needs https://t.co/Qt74Hxn3DA By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 3, 2016

For @451Research clients: In logs we trust: machine-data analytics firm @logtrust heads to the US https://t.co/9CkZ4px5tr By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 4, 2016

For @451Research clients: @VoltDB heeds the call of analytics with Teradata Listener integration https://t.co/KKcO4Fcflk By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: @EnterpriseDB debuts a database as a service with Ark https://t.co/hx8jSCqB6b By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: Credit where due: @ExperianDQ_UK delivers on expansion plans https://t.co/pJLKJNaIeh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

Hortonworks passes 1,000 customers, reports a net loss of $64.7m on Q3 revenue up 47% to $47.5m. https://t.co/hQAhNjro95

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 4, 2016

Tableau reported a Q3 net loss of $30.3m on revenue up 21% to $206.1m. https://t.co/QuAhYW3uQO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 2, 2016

Datawatch announces $1.9m Q4 net loss on revenue up 17% to $8.6m, $14.6m FY16 net loss on revenue up 1% to $30.4m. https://t.co/BVEBtU0hm3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 3, 2016

Paxata raises $33.5m fourth round of investment led by Intel Capital https://t.co/GbuqWnJQC3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

Interana has raised an $18m funding round led by Vertex Ventures https://t.co/CBe2yb5nRd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 3, 2016

Dataiku raises $14m Series A, led by FirstMark Capital https://t.co/nEISJCIWKE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

Quest Launches as independent software company backed by Francisco Partners and Elliott Management https://t.co/p9mae2NQIp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 3, 2016

IBM unveils Watson Data Platform https://t.co/kNtgUPoLan previews combined operational and analytics in DB2 12 https://t.co/0GPpESacnp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

Microsoft delivers public preview of Azure Analysis Services https://t.co/m5doMU6c88

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

MongoDB launches version 3.4 with native graph analytics and a new SQL interface https://t.co/j7p6qFCiuQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 1, 2016

Trifacta introduces Wrangler Edge for analyst teams, providing upgrade path from free Wrangler desktop tool https://t.co/LCzxmLyAuJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 2, 2016

ClusterHQ announces FlockerHub and Fli, providing Git-like functionality for container data management https://t.co/snsuNaHH7c

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 3, 2016

Datawatch plans to add data socialization collaboration to Monarch data preparation platform. https://t.co/xIYWLnKVMG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 3, 2016

Databricks adds deep learning and GPU support to Spark cloud service https://t.co/Pb7l0aTwLF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

ScaleArc for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2016 https://t.co/5167iqkxwR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

DataRobot updates machine learning platform, integrates TensorFlow library for deep learning. https://t.co/eV6zPWnS75

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 1, 2016

Progress Software has released Progress DataDirect Hybrid Data Pipeline https://t.co/fchzK3SdDv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 1, 2016

Alation announces Alation Tableau Edition and partnership focused on cataloging data for enterprise users of Tableau https://t.co/zibmDlsMup

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 2, 2016

TARGIT updates BI and analytics software with launch of TARGIT Decision Suite 2017 https://t.co/grcZ3GiDPc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 31, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Is Data Platforms and Analytics Poisoning Our Children?

For @451Research clients: @MapR layers microservices onto its Converged Data Platform https://t.co/sMcJla1DdI By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM drives deployment choices with latest Hadoop distribution release https://t.co/WdxTl0AaUt By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 10, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Trifacta offers data wrangling anytime, anywhere with cloud and database options https://t.co/qfNnj1EUQM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Alteryx elucidates plans for data-prep & predictive-analytics play https://t.co/aU96pQzO1Y By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 10, 2016

For @451Research clients: @WhereScape has designs on Total Data Warehouse automation https://t.co/iTJuGH1lvV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2016

For @451Research clients: @FuzzyLogix courts high-performance big-data analytics https://t.co/oWe7dVIV47 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2016

Data engineering platform provider Astronomer raises $1.9m Seed financing https://t.co/WXFSvQQdk6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 12, 2016

Neo has released Neo4j 3.1 with a new clustering and security architecture and introducing causal consistency. https://t.co/UPAccCWhX3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Zoomdata pitches visual analysis to US government with In-Q-Tel's aid https://t.co/38Ic9VZXrY By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2016

EnterpriseDB launches EDB Ark for hybrid cloud deployments of Postgres to private and public clouds https://t.co/NelbijEAye

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2016

EXASOL adds support for data virtualization and data integration with v6 of in-memory analytic database https://t.co/B5og2vPodB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Data platforms and analytics doesn’t look like this anymore!

For @451Research clients: @SAP snaps up @Altiscale for its big-data analytics managed services https://t.co/qQnFTG7HM2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Salesforce illuminates @beyondcoreinc's initial role inside Wave Analytics https://t.co/xsEe7qIzs6 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Hortonworks combines NiFi with Kafka, Storm, Ambari and Ranger with HDF 2.0 https://t.co/Mf7SRhaIRE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

For @451Research clients: @StreamSets aims to master data pipelines https://t.co/4VBPriPTw4 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Fivetran aims to transform data integration with cloud-based approach to ELT https://t.co/jYMDEd0aLR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

For @451Research clients: @EsgynCorp sets sights on mixed workloads with updated Hadoop RDBMS https://t.co/MwqNhG0rWX By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Altiscale confirms its acquisition by SAP https://t.co/rRB3WMAFfJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

SAP's take on its completed acquisition of Altiscale https://t.co/6aTzSW2DrC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Podium Data raises $9.5m series A financing round https://t.co/CPFd0f9IuG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Kinetica adds $6m in acceleration funding https://t.co/qDV7GOLa3j

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

IBM unveils Project DataWorks cloud-based data and analytics platform driven by machine learning and Spark. https://t.co/wELRI6mc6f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Splunk updates operational intelligence portfolio with embedded machine learning https://t.co/eWamKs0D84

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

MapR unveils support for event-driven microservices on Converged Data Platform https://t.co/pD0UrmoU4B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Microsoft Azure HDInsight now runs Hortonworks Data Platform 2.5, including Spark 2.0 https://t.co/6CU52Pt0hf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Hitachi updates Pentaho Data Integration with Spark SQL, Kafka support https://t.co/cI3GcxUT6Y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Zaloni updates Bedrock Data Lake Management to version 4.2 https://t.co/G845hcYBJa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Zaloni updates Mica self-service data preparation offering to version 1.2 https://t.co/yzxTMxECdS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Alation previews Alation Data Catalog 4.0 with Alation Connect https://t.co/CBLJyvWCd8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

MemSQL releases version 5.5, including MemSQL Pipelines for native ingest from Kafka https://t.co/x0vN8DjD24

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

MySQL at Oracle Open World 2016 https://t.co/qaclTkqOlW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Confluent enhances Enterprise offering for Kafka with multi-datacenter replication, auto data balancing https://t.co/rcBFPMtrb7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Cambridge Semantics launches Anzo Smart Data Lake for Enterprise https://t.co/6Q8lgkHj7k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

Splice Machine announces native Oracle PL/SQL support for Hadoop-based RDBMS https://t.co/5QBV2gDRtK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Paxata launches Paxata Connect, repositions as Business Information Platform provider. https://t.co/CzmYz6Dr5o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

BlueData updates its EPIC containerized big data-as-a-service platform for Hdoop and Spark. https://t.co/GWJHemJzye

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

Basho updates its Riak TS and Riak KV databases. https://t.co/ZZBWk1ZDyE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

PostgreSQL 9.6 is now available, with support for parallel query, and enhanced synchronous replication https://t.co/J05o32szxw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Cazena's Data Lake as a Service is now available on Azure https://t.co/XnNdaAfgmn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

The Cloudera-backed Open Network Insights (ONI) project is now Apache Spot (incubating) https://t.co/j3LG1UlCoA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2016

data Artisans has launched the dA Platform, a Flink distribution with subscription support https://t.co/ejeyethQl8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2016

Deepsense.io unveils Neptune machine learning platform https://t.co/HFK6b7x2LU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

Deepsense.io updates Seahorse data analytics workbench with support for Spark 2.0. https://t.co/zOTOgFEH8w

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 27, 2016

WANdisco’s CEO has left the company with immediate effect https://t.co/pogXWOo7g2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

What happened in data platforms and analytics this week will blow your mind

For @451Research clients: @Salesforce goes all-in with machine learning with Project Einstein https://t.co/OrFAdXswvP By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: @ContinuumIO aims to support comprehensive open-source-based data science https://t.co/S1wQFmjhRJ By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Cisco prepares to expand data management strategy via virtualization https://t.co/Nit5OX5lgg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: Post pivot, @Basho picks up momentum while focusing on time-series data https://t.co/WFlc6YNmCN By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2016

For @451Research clients: @ScaleOut_Inc aims its in-memory data grid at operational intelligence https://t.co/eY5m4AJAxh By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2016

For @451Research clients: @aloomainc beams in cloud-based spin on ETL-based data integration https://t.co/QLCWlBMnCq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 23, 2016

InfluxData raised $16m series B financing led by Battery Ventures https://t.co/3VSKkwqELZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 21, 2016

Greenwave Systems acquires Predixion Software, adding edge analytics to its IoT platform https://t.co/pdRLSrPixK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 21, 2016

Salesforce introduces Salesforce Einstein artificial intelligence capabilities https://t.co/uGvqkUur4v

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 19, 2016

Oracle unveils Database 12c Release 2 (amongst other things) https://t.co/RCvLG1pCSx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 19, 2016

Oracle launches Analytics Cloud https://t.co/hOo11tMFQ7 among a variety of new data-related cloud services https://t.co/OHoghBF7yf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 19, 2016

Informatica expands Data Lake Management including Big Data Management, Enterprise Information Catalog https://t.co/1SsvAsI8wJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 21, 2016

Trifacta releases Trifacta v4, targeting more users, more diverse data sources and more cloud environments. https://t.co/8eJJCfah8f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 20, 2016

IBM and Hortonworks collaborate on Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for IBM Power Systems https://t.co/v26stzIOMj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 20, 2016

Kinetica unveils GPU-accelerated database for analyzing streaming data https://t.co/DOlXfvwxgU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 21, 2016

Qubole’s Data Service (QDS) will be available on Oracle Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud at Customer https://t.co/a3EX0b9kXX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 20, 2016

Cask pitches forthcoming CDAP 4 as “unified integration platform” for big data. https://t.co/ZLMZKyUSao

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 19, 2016

Pepperdata delivers performance monitoring for Amazon EMR, previews adaptive scaling capability https://t.co/9OTwPOn0Tg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2016

Syncsort delivers open metadata management capabilities in its DMX-h integration software for Hadoop. https://t.co/PqIpwc1KXY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 22, 2016

Apache Software Foundation announces Apache CouchDB v2.0 https://t.co/CKac2Lpnqp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 20, 2016

The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Kudu v1.0 https://t.co/5mj0J2ZAd4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 20, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

What happened in data and analytics this week will leave you speechless

For @451Research clients: @KyvosInsights bolsters security and BI tool support for OLAP on Hadoop https://t.co/M6oAQ4SeGB By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 21, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Trifacta integrates with Apache Atlas for metadata-driven data wrangling on @Hortonworks https://t.co/Glnn54dAjQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 20, 2016

For @451Research clients: Self-service data-preparation pioneer @Paxata continues on-premises push https://t.co/u5h0JGjPY3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM unleashes updated @IBM_DB2 with more powerful in-memory analytics https://t.co/fj0F4XIX4G By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 22, 2016

Workday to acquire Platfora https://t.co/9MwrK0NA3O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 22, 2016

Redis Labs has raised a $14m Series C investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures. https://t.co/u2zNkvPYz2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 21, 2016

Stardog raised $2.3m led by Core Capital and Boulder Ventures for graph-based data unification platform. https://t.co/5Tdu6ZvZf5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 21, 2016

Datawatch reported a net loss of $5.4m on Q3 revenue down to 5.4% to $7.4m https://t.co/9ntkDYPGr5 (PDF)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 21, 2016

Cloudera announces the GA of Navigator Optimizer, alongside the production release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.8. https://t.co/OtAVooV8Pm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 21, 2016

Teradata plans to integrate Nuix’s data processing and indexing engine with Aster Analytics. https://t.co/GFBxnZtG0H

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 19, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

What happened in data and analytics this week has to be seen to be believed

For @451Research clients: Total Data platforms and analytics market expected to reach $132bn by 2020 https://t.co/WiY6Ak2Cqy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 15, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Microsoft sheds light on its business intelligence strategy and portfolio https://t.co/82wkz3mEjC By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 13, 2016

For @451Research clients: Managed analytics as a service: professional services powered by big data https://t.co/K7yyOOg5Gq By @drkatyring

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 14, 2016

For @451Research clients: Big Blue rolls out GA version of @IBM Graph cloud service for app developers https://t.co/ppeVfMRizN By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 16, 2016

For @451Research clients: @cognitect says its @datomic_team distributed database has come of age https://t.co/J1MmFZStdB By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 17, 2016

For @451Research clients: @kognitio ventures into new territory with high-concurrency SQL-on-Hadoop https://t.co/s68lQImes2 By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 17, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Centage builds cloud budgeting and forecasting business https://t.co/PjW3XN2JJn By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 14, 2016

Loggly announces an $11.5m funding round led by True Ventures. https://t.co/5ktXvPN6qO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 14, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.