February 13th, 2015 — Data management
HDS acquires Pentaho. And more
And that’s the data day, today.
May 2nd, 2014 — Data management
TIBCO acquires Jaspersoft. And more
And that’s the data day, today.
February 7th, 2014 — Data management
Orchestrate launches. Domo raises $125m. And more
And that’s the data day, today.
January 24th, 2014 — Data management
Is Hadoop a planet? MariaDB Enterprise. And more
And that’s the data day, today.
September 19th, 2013 — Data management
Splunk acquires BugSense. Recommind raises $15m from SAP Ventures. And more
And that’s the data day, today.
July 19th, 2013 — Data management
On July 23 at 10:00am PDT, I’ll be taking part in a webinar in association with MemSQL in the subject of building a next generation analytic platform.
To compete in the modern marketplace, your organization must be data-driven. But with the sheer number of data management and analytic technologies appearing on the market, it is difficult to map your needs to the appropriate solutions. One thing is clear – your data warehouse and Hadoop cluster do not suffice for real-time analytics.
In this webinar I’ll be joined by Mark Horton, director of product marketing for MemSQL, to discuss key criteria you should consider when building a next-generation analytic platform. Topics to be covered include:
- Flexibility and incremental scale-out to size your platform according to your volume and performance needs.
- Agile responsiveness to act on changes to your business environment faster than traditional data warehouses allowed.
- Integration with existing tools to leverage previous investments in your next-generation analytic environment.
Attendees will be offered a free 30-day trial of MemSQL’s real-time analytics platform and special one-year introductory pricing if they purchase MemSQL at the end of the trial.
For full details and to register, click here.
June 25th, 2013 — Data management
A bumper round-up of the past 14 days’ data-related news
* Cisco announced its intention to acquire Composite Software.
* Software AG acquired Apama.
* TIBCO Software acquired StreamBase Systems.
* Cloudera appointed Tom Reilly as Chief Executive Officer and Mike Olson as Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of the Board.
* Sears Holdings named Jeff Balagna Chief Executive Officer of MetaScale
* Ex-Yahoo CTO launched Altiscale, hardcore Hadoop as a service.
* SpaceCurve raised a $10M Series B round of financing.
* Sqrrl announced general availability of Sqrrl Enterprise.
* GE launched Predictivity services, supported by supported by Proficy Historian HD.
* Datameer announced Datameer 3.0.
* Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3.
* MemSQL announced the upcoming availability of MemSQL 2.1.
* Continuuity announced the release of Weave, a new open source project that enables Java developers to rapidly build scalable, distributed applications on YARN.
* RainStor adds security, text search features to database complement for Hadoop.
* Composite Software introduced version 6.2 SP3 of its Composite Data Virtualization Platform
* TokuDB launched TokuMX.
* Terracotta announced the immediate availability of Terracotta Universal Messaging.
* HP united its data management assets under HAVEn brand.
* Hortonworks and Red Hat announced an engineering collaboration around Hadoop.
* Rackspace Hosting’s ObjectRocket Database as a Service entered into a strategic agreement with 10gen.
* Simon Phipps posted State Of The Sea Lion – June 2013.
* Netflix announced that its Genie Hadoop-aaS management software is now open source
* Storm-YARN released as open source.
* Big Data arrived at the Oxford English Dictionary
And that’s the data day, today.
April 29th, 2013 — Data management
Next Tuesday, May 7, I’ll be taking part in a webinar with MemSQL at 10am PST to discuss real-time big data analytics.
Although much of the focus of big data relates to volume, the velocity of data – combined with increased frequency of analysis – is driving requirements for real-time analytics so enterprises can drive new business opportunities and create a competitive advantage.
I’ll be discussing the forces driving the emergence of ‘operational intelligence’ as a means of generating real-time insight into how a business is performing, and will be joined by MemSQL CEO, Erik Frenkiel.
Between us we will discuss how to:
- Scale an in-memory analytics solution for sub-second responses on terabytes of real-time and recent historical data.
- Reduce time-to-value by using existing SQL skills for real-time analytics.
- Solve real-time Big Data analytics challenges such as network security, operational analytics, risk management and marketing campaign optimization.
- Leverage real-time operational intelligence to make data-driven decisions.
- Minimize costs with horizontal scale-out on commodity hardware.
For full details, and to register, click here.
April 26th, 2013 — Data management
Pivotal launches. SkySQL and Mony Program merge. And much, much more
January 10th, 2013 — Data management
451 Research’s 2013 Database survey is now live at http://bit.ly/451db13 investigating the current use of database technologies, including MySQL, NoSQL and NewSQL, as well as traditional relation and non-relational databases.
The aim of this survey is to identify trends in database usage, as well as changing attitudes to MySQL following its acquisition by Oracle, and the competitive dynamic between MySQL and other databases, including NoSQL and NewSQL technologies.
There are just 15 questions to answer, spread over five pages, and the entire survey should take less than ten minutes to complete.
All individual responses are of course confidential. The results will be published as part of a major research report due during Q2.
The full report will be available to 451 Research clients, while the results of the survey will also be made freely available via a
presentation at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in April.
Last year’s results have been viewed nearly 55,000 times on SlideShare so we are hoping for a good response to this year’s survey.
One of the most interesting aspects of a 2012 survey results was the extent to which MySQL users were testing and adopting PostgreSQL. Will that trend continue or accelerate in 2013? And what of the adoption of cloud-based database services such as Amazon RDS and Google Cloud SQL?
Are the new breed of NewSQL vendors having any impact on the relational database incumbents such as Oracle, Microsoft and IBM? And how is SAP HANA adoption driving interest in other in-memory databases such as VoltDB and MemSQL?
We will also be interested to see how well NoSQL databases fair in this year’s survey results. Last year MongoDB was the most popular, followed by Apache Cassandra/DataStax and Redis. Are these now making a bigger impact on the wider market, and what of Basho’s Riak, CouchDB, Neo4j, Couchbase et al?
Additionally, we have been tracking attitudes to Oracle’s ownership of MySQL since the deal to acquire Sun was announced. Have MySQL users’ attitudes towards Oracle improved or declined in the last 12 months, and what impact will the formation of the MariaDB Foundation have on MariaDB adoption?
We’re looking forward to analyzing the results and providing answers to these and other questions. Please help us to get the most representative result set by taking part in the survey at http://bit.ly/451db13
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