The Data Day, Today: May 8 2012

IBM acquires Vivisimo. Funding for Birst, ParAccel, Metamarkets and DataSift. And more.

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# IBM picks up Vivisimo to search for value in ‘big data’ Deal Analysis

# Teradata delivers on analytic cloud vision with Active Data Warehouse Private Cloud Impact Report

# The Big Blue picture for ‘big data’ analytics: IBM sheds light on BigSheets Impact Report

# Oversight Systems’ Continuous Analysis extracts actionable insight from data Impact Report

# Kalido updates MDM offering with business users, operationalizing master data in mind Impact Report

# Delphix reaps reward from agile approach to database virtualization Impact Report

# Automated Insights looks to pitch narrative, visuals and stats to enterprises Impact Report

# myDIALS eyes indirect sales in quest to be Internet access layer for analytics Impact Report

* IBM Advances Big Data Analytics with Acquisition of Vivisimo Also announces support for Cloudera.

* Teradata Announces 2012 First Quarter Results Revenue up 21% (PDF)

* Actuate Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results Revenue up 9% (PDF)

* Birst Secures $26 Million in Financing Led By Sequoia Capital

* ParAccel Closes Record Q1 Revenues and $20 Million Investment Round

* Metamarkets Raises $15 Million to Deliver Data Science-as-a-Service

* DataSift adds $7.2M: The story so far and focus for the future

* Teradata to Acquire eCircle (PDF)

* Google BigQuery brings Big Data analytics to all businesses

* TIBCO Spotfire Brings the Power of Data Discovery to Big Data and Extreme Information

* Jaspersoft Teams with VMware To Deliver Business Intelligence for Data-Driven Cloud Applications

* Kalido and Teradata Sign Global Reseller Agreement

* Actuate Announces Cloudera Alliance to Support Apache Hadoop and BIRT Developers in Big Data Integration

* Hortonworks and Kognitio Announce Technical Partnership Driving Apache Hadoop Adoption in Big Data Analytics Implementations

* Tokutek and PalominoDB Partner to Bring Scale, Performance to Database Deployments

* Acunu is pleased to announce v2 of the Acunu Data Platform!

* Is Yahoo really threatening memcached and Open Compute?

* Introducing Zend DBi as a MySQL Replacement on IBM i

* Zettaset and Hyve Solutions Build First Fully Integrated Enterprise OS Hadoop Solution

* Cloudera Announces New Japanese Subsidiary

* Bull Announces the Formation of Database Migration Business Unit

* Couchbase to Run Native with Key-Value API for ioMemory

* The Big Data Value Continuum

* Big Data is Business Intelligence plus Attention Deficit Disorder

* Nokia released Dempsy an open source stream data processing platform.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Mar 22 2012

Oracle reports Q3. EMC acquires Pivotal Labs. ClearStoty launches. And much, much more.

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* Oracle Reports Q3 GAAP EPS Up 20% to 49 Cents; Q3 Non-GAAP EPS Up 15% to 62 Cents Database and middleware revenue up 10%.

* EMC Goes Social, Open and Agile With Big Data EMC acquires Pivotal Labs, plans to release Chorus as an open source project

* ClearStory Data Launches With Investment From Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures

* HP Lead Big Data Exec Chris Lynch Resigns

* “Hortonworks Names Ari Zilka Chief Products Officer

* DataStax Enterprise 2.0 Adds Enterprise Search Capabilities to Smart Big Data Platform

* MapR Unveils Most Comprehensive Data Connection Options for Hadoop

* New Web-Based Alpine Illuminator Integrates with EMC Greenplum Chorus, The Social Data Science Platform

* RainStor and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights to Address Growing Big Data Challenges

* IBM Introduces New Predictive Analytics Services and Software to Reduce Fraud, Manage Financial Performance and Deliver Next Best Action

* Datameer Releases Major New Version of Analytics Platform

* Kognitio Announces Formation of “Kognitio Cloud” Business Unit

* HStreaming Announces Free Community Edition of Its Real-Time Analytics Platform for Hadoop

* Talend and MapR Announce Certification of Big Data Integration and Big Data Quality

* Schooner Information Technology Releases Membrain 4.0

* Gazzang Launches Big Data Encryption and Key Management Platform

* Logicworks Solves Big Data Hosting Challenges With New Infrastructure Services for Hadoop

* “Big Data” Among Most Confusing Tech Buzzwords

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# Infochimps launches Chef-based platform for Hadoop deployment Impact Report

# Big-data security, or SIEM buzzword parity? Spotlight report

# DataStax adds enterprise search and elastic reprovisioning to database platform Market Development report

# With a new CEO and IBM as a reseller, Revolution Analytics charts next growth phase Market Development report

# Cray branches out, offering storage and a ‘big data’ appliance Market Development report

# CodeFutures sees a future beyond database sharding Market Development report

# Third time lucky for ScaleOut StateServer 5.0? Market Development report

# Attunity looks to 2012 for turnaround; up to the cloud and ‘big data’ movement Market Development report

# Panorama rides Microsoft’s coattails into in-memory social BI using SQL Server 2012 Market Development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Feb 24 2012

Teradata partners with Hortonworks. New CEOs for Zettaset and VoltDB. And more.

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* Teradata-Hortonworks Partnership to Accelerate Business Value from Big Data Technologies

* Skytree Unlocks the Advanced Analytics Power of Big Data with Unprecedented Performance, Scalability and Accuracy

* Big Data Innovator Zettaset Appoints Jim Vogt as New President and CEO

* Zettaset to Create Secure Hadoop with ‘SHadoop’ Initiative

* VoltDB Names Bruce Reading President and Chief Executive Officer

* Basho Unveils New Graphical Operations Dashboard, Diagnostics With Release of Riak 1.1

* Pervasive RushAnalyzer Launches ‘No Compromise’ Predictive Analytics for Hadoop and Big Data

* QlikTech Reveals Pricing for its QlikView Business Discovery Platform

* Kognitio Announces Completely Memory-Based Pricing

* Objectivity Adds New Plugin Framework, Integrated Visualizer And Support For Tinkerpop Blueprints To InfiniteGraph

* Announcing the Infochimps Platform for Big Data

* Big Data, Hadoop and StreamInsight

* Three New Cloud Providers join the MongoDB ecosystem

* Hadoop Has Promise but Also Problems

* Hortonworks: Reaffirming our Commitment to 100% Pure Open Source Despite speculation to the contrary.

* WhySQL? Evernote explains why it continues to use SQL databases.

* More on database consistency Anders Karlsson explains the different definitions of database consistency.

* Graphic proof of big demand for big data talent Or just graphic proof of use of phrase ‘big data’ in jobs ads?

* Will ‘big data’ transform your industry?

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# CrowdFlower – it’s like Hadoop, but with people? Impact Report

# Teradata and Hortonworks strike Hadoop marketing and development deal Market Development report

# Hypertable reemerges with high-performance NoSQL database Market Development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.