IBM forms Watson Group. And more

For 451 Research clients: Cloudera aims for the skies with Enterprise Data Hub, AWS cloud partnership http://t.co/tcoMJQKX9P

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

For 451 Research clients: SAP illuminates rationale for KXEN acquisition and serves up first fruits http://t.co/ZlvxEkBq1u By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 10, 2014

For 451 clients: Host Analytics gives Airlift to Excel users, eyes IPO as 'Hyperion in the cloud' http://t.co/qbwNr82Oiw By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

For 451 Research clients: With Aspera buy, IBM aspires to provide faster 'big data' transfers http://t.co/6nEyL6QB4w By Peter Christy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

IBM forms Watson Group, unveils cloud-based Watson data discovery and analysis services. http://t.co/tVpztksfQH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 9, 2014

SAP reports HANA software revenue up 61% at actual currencies to €633m in 2013. http://t.co/aprzE28Wah

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 10, 2014

Tibco reported Q4 net inc of $44.5m on revenue up 6.4% to $315.5m, FY net inc of $84m on revenue up 4.4% to $1.07bn. http://t.co/i2WSL95jfk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

Mike Olson explains why Cloudera sees Apache Spark as a potential successor to MapReduce. http://t.co/U1k16sBJc1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

Qubole has started alpha testing Presto-as-a-Service, based on Facebook's SQL query engine for Hadoop. http://t.co/3QG3xxSeoI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 9, 2014

Logi Analytics introduces Logi Vision for data discovery, analysis and visualisation. http://t.co/n7epudceFM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 7, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Google confirms move to MariaDB. SAP acquires KXEN. And more.

For 451 Research clients: SAP reaches for KXEN to get into the business of predictive analytics http://t.co/KSyO54zQYo By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

For 451 Research clients: With $7m series A funding, Context Relevant sets up shop in machine learning http://t.co/U4LUJcoTGA By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2013

For 451 clients: In first Q following IPO, Tableau sees strong growth, makes SaaS play, embraces R http://t.co/0cDWVnZXly By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2013

For 451 Research clients: triAGENS considers commercial options for ArangoDB NoSQL database http://t.co/aXf99HYtAp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2013

For 451 Research clients: SRCH2 looks forward to potential disruption in enterprise search http://t.co/2DQiHahirI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2013

Google confirms migration from MySQL to MariaDB, as well as MariaDB development collaboration with SkySQL http://t.co/aNISHZGjFD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

SAP acquires KXEN http://t.co/jOa6bSsVMz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2013

SAP has entered reseller agreements with Intel and Hortonworks to resell their Hadoop distos alongside SAP HANA. http://t.co/S17UWWANqE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

Space-Time Insight announces $20m investment round http://t.co/G8TfxkdZi5 (PDF)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

SAS adds in-database data quality, improved event-stream processing to SAS Data Management. http://t.co/hx9q2WOHrL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2013

PostgreSQL 9.3 released with heterogeneous data federation, increased reliability, and new developer features. http://t.co/SKiOzdjml0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2013

Amazon introduces DynamoDB Local for Desktop dev http://t.co/i7R18NyMiD X-region replication using AWS Data Pipeline http://t.co/SXjXZArV7f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2013

Pentaho launches Business Analytics 5.0 http://t.co/bBfTxBbs3z including advanced MongoDB integration. http://t.co/mG98qfVZWE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2013

Pivotal unveils project “Helios” to integrate GemFire and SQLFire in-memory data grid capabilities and Pivotal HD. http://t.co/FuL2CiGvSV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2013

Couchbase launches Couchbase Server 2.2 http://t.co/r53B18g0EF ‘JSON Anywhere’ Mobile Strategy http://t.co/SjtF1k2ejt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2013

Revelytix announces strategic partnership with MapR. http://t.co/ib2x0q25eT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2013

RedisConf 2013 cancelled due to lack of interest from attendees and sponsors. http://t.co/qupK2ugsuu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 10, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Total Data analysis. Tokutek gets flash. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Total Data analysis: toward the ability to question everything bit.ly/RgSX1R By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Tokutek gets flash with database update, eyes MongoDB integration bit.ly/RgT2m5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2012

For 451 clients: KXEN looks up to the cloud, takes predictive analytics to salesforce.com users bit.ly/ORgkkh By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 25, 2012

TIBCO launches TIBCO Spotfire 5.0 with new in-memory engine bit.ly/QCwuJZ, expands Teradata partnership. bit.ly/QCwzxj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 25, 2012

Datameer Raises $6 Million From Redpoint Ventures and Kleiner Perkins tcrn.ch/RgT3qe

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2012

Amazon introduces Provisioned IOPS high performance storage option for the Relational Database Service bit.ly/QTO38Q

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2012

Precog Launches in Public Beta to Unlock Big Data bit.ly/RgTgtu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2012

SkySQL launches Enterprise Data Suite bit.ly/QCvTYI beta release of Cloud Data Suite bit.ly/QCvYM6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 25, 2012

Eight Questions for Hewlett-Packard Software Head George Kadifa dthin.gs/RgVOI4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2012

Tokutek Optimizes TokuDB for Flash Memory mwne.ws/QCwny9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 25, 2012

HP announces new reseller agreement with Cloudera bit.ly/RgT79p

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2012

Treasure Data Announces Partnership with Jaspersoft prn.to/QTNXyc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 26, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Microsoft launches SQL Server 2012. MapR integrates with Informatica. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2012 to Help Customers Manage “Any Data, Any Size, Anywhere”

* SQL Server 2012 Released to Manufacturing

* SAS Access to Hadoop Links Leading Analytics, Big Data

* MapR And Informatica Announce Joint Support To Deliver High Performance Big Data Integration And Analysis

* Teradata Expands Integrated Analytics Portfolio

* New Teradata Platform Reshapes Business Intelligence Industry

* Microsoft’s Trinity: A graph database with web-scale potential

* KXEN Announces Availability of InfiniteInsight Version 6, a Predictive Analytics Solution with Unprecedented Agility, Productivity, and Ease of Use

* Software AG Announces its Strategy for the In-memory Management of Big Data

* Attunity and Hortonworks Announce Partnership to Simplify Big Data Integration with Apache Hadoop

* Schooner Information Technology and Ispirer Systems Partner to Deliver SQLWays for SchoonerSQL

* Big Data & Search-Based Applications

* Namenode HA Reaches a Major Milestone

* How Twitter is doing its part to democratize big data

* Dropping Prices Again– EC2, RDS, EMR and ElastiCache

* For 451 Research clients

# SAS outlines Hadoop strategy, previews Hadoop-based in-memory analytics Market Development report

# Pervasive rides the elephant into ‘big data’ predictive analytics Market Development report

# IBM makes desktop discovery and analysis play, shares business analytics priorities Market Development report

# Clustrix launches SDK to tap developer interest in new databases Market Development report

# Continuent and SkySQL team up for clustered MySQL support Analyst note

# MapR gets a boost from Cisco and Informatica Analyst note

And that’s the Data Day, today.