Salesforce acquires MetaMind. And more.

For @451Research clients: @googlecloud highlights data and analytics services to help it ride cloud's 'third wave' https://t.co/rsrZzjxGQT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SoftwareAG says the Internet of Things is driving streaming analytics https://t.co/4Yr9VIjVgt By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Alteryx illuminates data prep and adv analytics following $85m series C https://t.co/8QHix1iI5U By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 7, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Salesforce reaches 50th release of its suite, touts machine-learning https://t.co/xNyvpRN3nZ By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 7, 2016

For @451Research clients: @GigaSpaces to add Spark to its data grid for real-time analytics https://t.co/Iqk5qY1eqe By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 7, 2016

For @451Research clients: With version 6.4, @Splunk reduces storage costs, doubles visualizations https://t.co/yrojCuBT2V By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 8, 2016

For @451Research clients: @EXASOLAG speeds toward version 6 of its analytic database https://t.co/AIudK7dEIY By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2016

Salesforce has acquired deep learning specialist MetaMind. https://t.co/J4XGlKu1fg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2016

MariaDB announces the forthcoming release of its MariaDB ColumnStore analytics engine, adds $3m in funding https://t.co/iQ2Uz4TZCr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2016

Spunk has announced the general availability of Splunk®Enterprise 6.4 and a new Splunk Cloud release. https://t.co/J4HOYWockf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2016

MapR adds Apache Drill 1.6 to its Converged Data Platform, including tighter integration with MapR-DB. https://t.co/rfUvvO5b5R

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 7, 2016

Magnitude Software launches MDM offering aimed at midsized companies. https://t.co/Hr8TKiv3CU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 5, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

OpenText to acquire Actuate for $272m

For @451Research clients: With $100m funding in the bag, @Mag_SW aims to be greater than its EIM parts http://t.co/3S3ZRxOMI8 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Pentaho enters self-service integration fray, illuminates BI business http://t.co/OZbrQHoZHh By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Teradata as a service: Hadoop, Aster Discovery and Data Warehouse http://t.co/sw2HAayGID By @wif

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 27, 2014

For @451Research clients: @TreasureData lands marquee customers for expanded data processing service http://t.co/ZkmrETFonK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

For @451Research clients: @cloudwick brings 'big data' DevOps services to large enterprise buyers http://t.co/mFft7U2NjE By @drkatyring

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

OpenText signs definitive agreement to acquire Actuate for approximately $272m. http://t.co/TmoCL1RL8O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

Hortonworks amends S1 – plans to offer 6 million shares at $12-$14 per share http://t.co/Soim7DrbB6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2014

Narrative Science announces $10m investment round led by USAA. http://t.co/GVe4XR3WTx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 28, 2014

Attivio appoints new CEO, CTO and chairman. http://t.co/RJ4ERXHGbn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

HP launches Haven OnDemand, running on the HP Helion cloud http://t.co/jVwe5m6W3O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2014

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Drill as a Top-Level Project http://t.co/25qo0gZj05

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2014

DataStax has announced the general availability of DataStax Enterprise 4.6 http://t.co/Y4GpQMJNV2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2014

Make that Percona adds Google Cloud Platform to list of XtraDB Cluster DBaaS providers http://t.co/5lztirPSGb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2014

Citus Data announces pg_shard, a transparent sharding extension for PostgreSQL. http://t.co/fttwVM3Fkb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 5, 2014

Pivotal laying off big data employees? http://t.co/9kFJ1qtWBP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 28, 2014

Data scientist metro map. http://t.co/sblJQfXLoW Not sure how I missed this before

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.