September 12th, 2012 — Data management
Adaptive Planning Acquires myDIALS. SpagoBI targets in-memory. And more.
And that’s the Data Day, today.
August 7th, 2012 — Data management
Hadapt goes GA (quietly). Birst delivers Distributed Business Analytics
And that’s the Data Day, today.
July 25th, 2012 — Data management
Drawn to Scale draws on MapR. Time to go all-in on all-flash?
And that’s the Data Day, today.
March 22nd, 2012 — Data management
Oracle reports Q3. EMC acquires Pivotal Labs. ClearStoty launches. And much, much more.
An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.
* 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
* For 451 Research clients
# 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.
March 8th, 2012 — Data management
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.
March 8th, 2012 — Data management
We recently speculated that EMC Greenplum’s focus on the integration of its Greenplum HD Hadoop distribution with its Data Computing Appliance (DCA) and Isilon storage technology would mean an increasingly niche role for Greenplum MR- the Hadoop distribution based on MapR’s M5.
Two recent announcements indicate that niche might continue to be a lucrative one for MapR, however. First, Cisco released details of a reference architecture for deploying Greenplum MR on Cisco’s UCS servers. Then Informatica announced a partnership with MapR to jointly support its Data Integration Platform running on MapR’s distribution for Hadoop.
The Informatica relationship also covers bi-directional data integration with Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica PowerExchange, snapshot replication using Informatica FastClone, and data streaming into MapR’s distribution via NFS using Informatica Ultra Messaging. In addition, In addition, the free Informatica HParser Community Edition will be available for download as part of the MapR distribution.
While the partnership with Informatica is a direct one for MapR, the Cisco reference architecture announcement illustrates that the benefit MapR gains from its relationship with EMC Greenplum includes exploiting the company’s leverage with potential partners.
March 2nd, 2012 — Data management
January 31st, 2012 — Data management
As expected, EMC has announced that it is integrating its Greenplum HD distribution of Apache Hadoop with its Isilon scale-out NAS technology. The move coincides with a re-branding of the company’s Hadoop distributions that, while slight, could prove significant.
Specifically, EMC has enabled the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as a native protocol supported on OneFS in addition to Network File System (NFS) and Common Internet File System (CIFS) support, enabling Isilon systems to provide the underlying storage layer for Hadoop processing, as well as a common storage pool for Hadoop and other systems.
EMC is talking up the benefits of combining Isilon with Greenplum HD. For the record, that’s the Hadoop distribution previously known as Greenplum HD Community Edition, based on the Apache Hadoop 0.20.1 code branch.
Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition, based on MapR Technologies’ M5 distribution, is now known as Greenplum MR, and is not supported by Isilon due to the fact that it replaces HDFS with Direct Access NFS.
EMC notes that Greenplum MR is being positioned as a high-performance Hadoop offering for customers that have failed to achieve their required performance from other distributions.
While EMC is quick to maintain its happiness with the MapR relationship and its commitment to Greenplum MR, it’s clear that tight integration with Isilon, particularly in the EMC Greenplum DCA, will result in an expanded role for Greenplum HD.
Additionally, while the company’s Greenplum Command Center provides unified management for the Greenplum Database, Greenplum HD and Greenplum Chorus as part of the recently announced Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), MapR has its own management and monitoring functionality.
Since we expect EMC to pitch the benefits of integrated software in UAP and software and hardware in DCA, it is now clear that Greenplum HD, rather than the Greenplum MR, is considered the company’s primary Hadoop distribution.
Given Greenplum HD’s starring role in the Unified Analytics Platform (UAP), Data Computing Appliance (DCA) and integration with Isilon, Greenplum MR’s role is likely to become increasingly niche.
January 19th, 2012 — Data management
Amazon launches DynamoDB. Red Hat virtually supports JasperReports. And more.
An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.
* Amazon Web Services Launches Amazon DynamoDB See also blog posts from Werner Vogels and Jeff Barr, as well as reaction from DataStax and Basho.
* Jaspersoft Delivers Analytics for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Customers JasperReports Server is embedded in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0.
* Tableau 7.0 Brings Simplicity to Business Intelligence Including new Data Server for data sharing and management.
* Hortonworks to Deliver Next-Generation of Apache Hadoop Pre-announcement (emphasis on the pre).
* RainStor Announces First Enterprise Database Running Natively on Hadoop as well as partnerships with Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR, and support from Composite Software.
* Talend Platform for Data Services Operationalizes Information and Data A common development, deployment and monitoring environment for both data management and application integration.
* Fujitsu Launches Cloud Services as a Platform for Big Data Data Utilization Platform Services.
* All you wanted to know about Hadoop, but were too afraid to ask A graphic illustration of the various versions of Apache Hadoop.
* Oracle Database or Hadoop? Another good post from Pythian’s Gwen Shapira. See also Aaron Cordova’s Do I need SQL or Hadoop?
* Meet Code 42, Accel’s first Big Data Fund investment GigaOM has the details.
* MapR CEO Sees Big Changes in Big Data in 2012 Predictive.
* Introducing DataFu: an open source collection of useful Apache Pig UDFs LinkedIn launches open source user-defined functions.
* Big Data Needs Data Scientists, Or Quants, Or Excel Jockeys … or something.
* Career of the Future: Data Scientist [INFOGRAPHIC] Infotaining.
* Knives out for Oracle. SAP and IBM offer some perspectives on Exalytics and Big Data Appliance respectively.
* For 451 Research clients
# Information Builders uses Infobright to take BI in-memory, expands SMB reach Market development report
# RainStor launches database complement to Apache Hadoop Market development report
# Heroku’s Postgres is poised for growing interest in database as a service Market development report
* Google News Search outlier of the day: This Spud’s For All of You: “2012 Is the Year of the Potato”
And that’s the Data Day, today.
November 15th, 2011 — Data management
451 Research has today published a report looking at the funding being invested in Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL database-related vendors. The full report is available to clients, but below is a snapshot of the report, along with a graphic representation of the recent up-tick in funding.
According to our figures, between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2010 $95.8m had been invested in the various Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL-related vendors. That figure now stands at more than $350.8m, up 266%.
That statistic does not really do justice to the sudden uptick of interest, however. The figures indicate that funding for Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL-related firms has more than doubled since the end of August, at which point the total stood at $157.5m.
A substantial reason for that huge jump is the staggering $84m series A funding round raised by Apache Hadoop-based analytics service provider Opera Solutions.
The original commercial supporter of Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, has also contributed strongly with a recent $40m series D round. In addition, MapR Technologies raised $20m to invest in its Apache Hadoop distribution, while we know that Hortonworks also raised a substantial round (unconfirmed, but reportedly $20m) from Benchmark Capital and former parent Yahoo as it was spun off in June. Index Ventures also recently announced that it has become an investor in Hortonworks.
I am reliably informed that if you factor in Hortonworks’ two undisclosed rounds, the total funding for Hadoop and NoSQL vendors is actually closer to $400m.
The various NoSQL database providers have also played a part in the recent burst of investment, with 10gen raising a $20m series D round and Couchbase raising $15m. DataStax, which has interests in both Apache Cassandra and Apache Hadoop, raised an $11m series B round, while Neo Technology raised a $10.6m series A round. Basho Technologies raised $12.5m in series D funding in three chunks during 2011.
Additionally, there are a variety of associated players, including Hadoop-based analytics providers such as Datameer, Karmasphere and Zettaset, as well as hosted NoSQL firms such as MongoLab, MongoHQ and Cloudant.
One investor company name that crops up more than most in the list above is Accel Partners, which was an original investor in both Cloudera and Couchbase, and backed Opera Solutions via its Accel- KKR joint venture with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
It appears that those investments have merely whetted Accel’s appetite for big data, however, as the firm last week announced a $100m Big Data Fund to invest in new businesses targeting storage, data management and analytics, as well as data-centric applications and tools.
While Accel is the fist VC shop that we are aware of to create a fund specifically for big data investments, we are confident both that it won’t be the last and that other VCs have already informally earmarked funds for data-related investments.
451 clients can get more details on funding and M&A involving more traditional database vendors, as well as our perspective on potential M&A suitors for the Hadoop and NoSQL players.
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