The real story turns out to be DATA and ANALYTICS! Find the leakers.

For @451Research clients: Hadoop pioneer @cloudera eyes IPO, bets big on advanced analytics platform By @jmscrts https://t.co/XbE2VOnSWq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Domotalk adds artificial intelligence to Business Cloud, cites adoption milestones https://t.co/dBXwY5dKYU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Teradata rolls out IntelliCloud managed analytic database cloud @jmscrts https://t.co/aFEZbN2eDZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

For @451Research clients: @AyataAnalytics expands artificial intelligence/ operations vertical focus https://t.co/1Ylc67onQb By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Enova seeks business diversification via predictive decision management https://t.co/0Dnnohz6Qb By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

For @451Research clients: @justonedb rebrands as Edge Intelligence, focuses on IoT https://t.co/nS9PPSuZu0 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

For @451Research clients: @Pepperdata goes after DevOps with a little help from Dr. Elephant https://t.co/aFLWACmHe1 By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 6, 2017

Cloudera has filed its S-1 https://t.co/7hgvfLx0jN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2017

Snowflake Computing raises $100m series D funding led by ICONIQ Capital https://t.co/HBcuecdVXw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

Tableau introduces new subscription pricing model https://t.co/zpL9WiPj3I

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 6, 2017

Couchbase has appointed former Veritas President Matt Cain as CEO https://t.co/UqsykwG0gf Bob Wiederhold becomes Executive Chairman

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

Hortonworks launches HDP 2.6, including Apache Hive 2.0 with LLAP https://t.co/cMyfMAFNjn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2017

Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6 https://t.co/b3bgIHqzEk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2017

SAP is using MapR’s File System to support SAP’s cloud infrastructure storage capabilities. https://t.co/ncg5Y7XEX0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2017

Teradata updates IntelliFlex and launches IntelliBase https://t.co/jSCFYPn5Ln

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

Teradata introduces portable database subscription licenses. https://t.co/BqLcDKRT22

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2017

Google Cloud Platform partners with Elastic to offer managed Elastic Cloud https://t.co/XLSwKYEJ3a

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 6, 2017

‘Artificial Intelligence’ has become meaningless https://t.co/isDKMMxrG9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 6, 2017

And that’s the data day, today.

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.