Best slide of #Strataconf already? pic.twitter.com/hy8LnEnWhk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2014

Insanely large Strata-Hadoop World edition

For @451Research clients: Big wheel keep on turning: @OracleDatabase rolls to the cloud (again) http://t.co/WhvAyDDOkC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 17, 2014

For @451Research clients: @OrchestrateIO delivers multi-model database managed service with Orchestrate Enterprise http://t.co/nLzagZ37Zu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Oracle reiterates its commitment to @MySQL with Oracle Enterprise Manager integration http://t.co/mIJVlB3JSC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Tokutek's shift to open source and MongoDB provides a performance boost of its own http://t.co/Kxw1jWkq1c

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

For @451Research clients: @host_analytics introduces sales planning for http://t.co/e6fVq13mi4 http://t.co/KrEQiFqErU By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2014

Loggly raises $15m for cloud-based log management. http://t.co/r0btkWuVXx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2014

Cloudera launches Cloudera Director for deploying and managing Hadoop in the cloud. http://t.co/HaC7zLWIpA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Cloudera and EMC deliver the integration of Cloudera Enterprise with EMC Isilon scale-out storage http://t.co/cqFCgOu8Md

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2014

Cloudera launches Cloudera Enterprise 5.2 http://t.co/vB6mSPFla0 Impala 2.0 http://t.co/ql06EBdmfF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Hortonworks launches version 2.2 of the Hortonworks Data Platform. http://t.co/p74ISXCSqV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Hortonworks Data Platform is now certified to run on Azure Infrastructure as a Service http://t.co/QpSHTiSb5d

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 17, 2014

MongoDB updates and relaunches MongoDB Management Service http://t.co/u8Vb77pk1a

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2014

Cloudera and Red Hat partner, kick off cloud, storage and development integration efforts. http://t.co/Rh2tvJjtDp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2014

Microsoft adds Apache storm to Azure HDInsight http://t.co/SBqKAk4cAd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Rackspace announces the release of OnMetal Cloud Big Data Platform based on Hadoop and Spark. http://t.co/qWOY9EshE5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Cray launches Urika-XA Hadoop and Sprak appliance, bring YarcData back into the fold. http://t.co/rJnAEzbjnO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2014

Platfora introduces Platfora 4.0 with advanced visualizations, geo-analytics capabilities and collaboration. http://t.co/WYV4hJwiZP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

DataTorrent has announced the availability of DataTorrent RTS 2.0 streaming platform. http://t.co/aW7jJ64QTA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2014

MapR adds MapR-DB NoSQL database to MapR Community Edition. http://t.co/pKrzw9IJKF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Dell has introduced the In-Memory Appliance for Cloudera Enterprise, optimised for Hadoop and Spark. http://t.co/R3c9TPIoFY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2014

BlueData packages Spark with its EPIC platform for private clouds. http://t.co/KinFrmtOFH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Revolution Analytics introduces Revolution R Open and Revolution R Plus http://t.co/uwh3Ff7l3j

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Orchestrate launches Orachestrate Enterprise managed service http://t.co/lJroVTNDrG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Compose adds hosted RethinkDB. http://t.co/y6LqMLeURG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

Hortonworks launches Ozone project to develop object storage for HDFS. http://t.co/lAK8GX43xm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2014

MapR has announced an initiative to integrate Apache Drill with Apache Spark. http://t.co/vvmgxGT0UH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2014

Hortonworks discusses the potential for a unified SQL layer for Hive and HBase. http://t.co/nALlMSo7au

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2014

Pivotal describes its vision of in-memory Hadoop basic on the Tachyon file system and Apache Spark. http://t.co/JtyWlXOg9Q

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Introducing the Total Data Warehouse. And more

For @451Research clients: Analytic databases and Hadoop: introducing the Total Data Warehouse http://t.co/bhpku8fKPR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 14, 2014

For @451Research clients: @SiSense bags $30m series C and forges ahead in business analytics sector http://t.co/vPBwdlYLJ4 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 17, 2014

For @451Research clients: TempoDB rebrands, refocuses on sensor-data analytics as @Tempo_IQ http://t.co/jq05sV3MmL By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 16, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Microsoft moves into machine learning for predictive analytics http://t.co/EqIjdN5YI7 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 11, 2014

For @451Research clients: @LookerData shares roadmap as it banks on in-database analytics for growth http://t.co/mODhTtQMfO By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 14, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Actuate offers freemium BI server as part of subscription pricing overhaul http://t.co/meKFctYGrv By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 16, 2014

For @451Research clients: @DataStax adds Spark to Cassandra distribution for high-speed analytics http://t.co/AhFcSLqNlv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 14, 2014

For @451Research clients: @RapidMiner makes in-Hadoop advanced analytics play with Radoop buy http://t.co/SsPnNMEoAv By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 11, 2014

For @451Research clients: @RainStor goes back to the future with archive application for Hadoop http://t.co/Y3xjHLuQmr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 17, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Teradata adds R language support to Aster Discovery Platform http://t.co/cZmMbqW5Mp By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 15, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Percona launches MySQL backup service following clustering and management updates http://t.co/gM7s74ElJY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 11, 2014

Oracle introduces Big Data SQL, providing unified querying data in Oracle Database, Hadoop, and NoSQL databases. http://t.co/zH7RzKxu0I

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 15, 2014

SAP claims more than 3,600 HANA customers as total Q2 (IFRS) revenue climbs 2% to €4.1bn. http://t.co/ao5Z65dKLN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 17, 2014

PredictionIO Raises $2.5M For Its Open Source Machine Learning Server http://t.co/3U9reUmb64

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 17, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Oracle launches Oracle Database In-Memory. And more

For @451Research clients: @Jaspersoft illuminates life inside @TIBCO, moves into embedded BI in earnest http://t.co/8kcsZgPWkO By KrishnaRoy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 13, 2014

For @451Research clients: With $8.7m series A funding @cirroinc looks to shore up federation business http://t.co/GAMRAcAM1S By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 12, 2014

For @451Research clients: @FORMCEPT eyes series A funding, looks to diverse data analysis http://t.co/6cgHsYpYb4 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 12, 2014

Oracle announces Oracle Database In-Memory. http://t.co/YVmcgZpSRv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 10, 2014

SiSense has announced $30m in series C financing led by DFJ Growth. http://t.co/SRTV7mN4uC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 12, 2014

Hazelcast announces Hazelcast Enterprise. http://t.co/DVtpo2UNvI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 10, 2014

Microsoft introduces Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, combining machine learning and the cloud. http://t.co/gL50EDu0Ij

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 16, 2014

HP has recently launched Trafodion, an open source transactional SQL-on-HBase project. http://t.co/Mm4aQCjE9l

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 13, 2014

CodeFutures launches AgilData for real-time high-performance stream processing. http://t.co/qf0PWrsWzG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 12, 2014

ClicData Raises $1m to fund the development of its cloud based business dashboards and data warehouse software. http://t.co/PNqA7OhYAN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 13, 2014

Tesora launches open source Community Edition of its Database Virtualization Engine. http://t.co/QgZyxvmJQK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 10, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Teradata and Tableau report Q1 results

For @451Research clients: @IBM extends Big SQL to query Hadoop and RDBMS, launches BlueMix data services http://t.co/FPFj9UdI0r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 7, 2014

For @451Research clients: Cloud adds cost complexity to @microsoft @SQLServer 2014 hybrid deployments http://t.co/GQvNVHJgcy By @owenrog

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

For @451Research clients: @alteryx looks to ease advanced analysis – with a little help from partners http://t.co/VNBFsJicSS By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

For @451Research clients: @anaplan heads toward industry-specific apps, marketplace, further growth http://t.co/jSBwNRbisb By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

Teradata reported Q1 net income of $59m on revenue up 7% to $628m. http://t.co/2y0K9Fwxsx (PDF)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 8, 2014

Tableau reports a Q1 net loss of $5.6m on revenue up 86% to $74.6m. http://t.co/4KtJAhGnuE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

Cirro receives strategic investment from GE Ventures for self-service data exploration and analysis wares. http://t.co/OYLaLkSgw5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

DataStax partners with Databricks to integrate Apache Spark and Apache Cassandra, http://t.co/DyQXF14tmE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 8, 2014

SAP appoints Robert Enslin and Bernd Leukert to executive board to drive SAP Cloud/HANA as Vishal Sikka steps down. http://t.co/OvfhsypqlZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

Splunk updates both Splunk Enterprise http://t.co/T8rgYklBzg and Hunk http://t.co/siXWxz4S2S to version 6.1.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

ZettaSet adds Secure HBase to its Zettaset Orchestrator management platform for Hadoop. http://t.co/AQ7qK78yUP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 7, 2014

RapidMiner has announced a new PaaS version of its RapidMiner Server offering. http://t.co/RHf81YhAbP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

Basho to Bolster Riak with DB Plug-Ins http://t.co/CsGb8XOSkt Targets shift to multi-database (document, graph) role.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 6, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

TIBCO acquires Jaspersoft. And more

For @451Research clients: @TIBCO plugs embedded BI and reporting gap with $185m pickup of @Jaspersoft http://t.co/VveMbWR3HC By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 30, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Microsoft looks to 'ambient intelligence' with SQL Server, Azure http://t.co/VsAztSWghU By @jasonstamper and me

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2014

For @451Research clients: @awscloud's challenge is to meet demand http://t.co/CuidkKowCx By @wif @owenrog @simonrob451 and me

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2014

For @451Research clients: @rackspace fires a rocket up its stack to differentiate http://t.co/C2vQBAJTvU By @owenrog @wif and me

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2014

For @451Research clients: More than just a pretty interface? @SAP illuminates Lumira http://t.co/MwofEZKBCH By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 28, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Newrelic adds business analytics to 'big data' platform, raises $100m http://t.co/MtlMeWNMDV By @DennisCallaghan

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 30, 2014

For @451Research clients: @gopivotal returns non-strategic assets to EMC, highlighting software and services revenue http://t.co/d8IRMiSLEz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 28, 2014

TIBCO Software acquires Jaspersoft for $185m. http://t.co/ychVHsFDKX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 29, 2014

D&B acquires Indicee for cloud-based analytics and business intelligence. http://t.co/yJhAxzMlYW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 30, 2014

Attunity reports Q1 net loss of $1.4m on revenue up 54% to $7.1m. http://t.co/n14nRhlg4R

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2014

Tidemark unveils Playbooks; raises $32m in new funding. http://t.co/0GPIm1aOZ6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 29, 2014

Hadoop monitoring and management startup Pepperdata raises $5m series A. http://t.co/IVnlyxBAGB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 29, 2014

Cloudera and MongoDB announce strategic partnership. http://t.co/e31AUsa0TU More details coming June 24th.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 29, 2014

IBM launches data and analytics services as part of BlueMix PaaS update. http://t.co/sbiCRX6cKZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 29, 2014

TIBCO updates Spotfire data discovery and interactive analytics to version 6.5. http://t.co/hgwnuhjQpW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 29, 2014

Qubole announces the general availability of Presto-as-a-Service – http://t.co/3cJnBJfPHq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2014

MemSQL launches MemSQL Ops – real-time insight for performance monitoring, capacity planning and problem diagnosis. http://t.co/zvoW1rbBz4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 29, 2014

Radoop launches Radoop 2.0 for business analysts and data scientists. http://t.co/VfWcxKgX3Y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 1, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Informatica, QlikTech and Pivotal Q1 results. And more

For @451Research clients: @Teradata unifies Hadoop with its data architecture via QueryGrid http://t.co/C510JwlCfN By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2014

For @451Research clients: @SASInstitute applies LASR focus to Visual Statistics inside Hadoop http://t.co/4mg6MF5jnK By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2014

For @451Research clients: @ScaleBase wishes for Analysis Genie to seed adoption for distributed database http://t.co/ki04IyOjLQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2014

Informatica reports Q1 net income of $24.9m, up 39%, on revenue up 13% to $243.1m. http://t.co/3UlNIoVanH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2014

QlikTech reports Q1 net loss of $25.9m, on revenue up 15% to $111.1m. http://t.co/WljTAZAhZf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2014

EMC has disclosed that Pivotal generated revenue of $49m in 1Q14, up 41%, and $179m in FY13. http://t.co/R5bLWdd8Iq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2014

Hortonworks will certify, support and deliver Concurrent's Cascading SDK with HDP. http://t.co/ZWwR9nhq6D Cascading to add support for Tez.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2014

FICO has acquired the Hadoop analytics assets of Karmasphere and will roll it into the FICO Analytic Cloud. http://t.co/WoIpdoSNRt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 17, 2014

Birst appoints Jay Larson as new CEO. http://t.co/CFHr5yPGN1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2014

Alteryx has announced the launch of Alteryx Analytics 9.0. http://t.co/Z0EIf7U6gY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 24, 2014

Pivotal's Milind Bhandarkar explains Pivotal HD to Datameer's Stefan Groschupf http://t.co/6rusIo2xfS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2014

Microsoft rejigs its Azure SQL Database editions. http://t.co/NbSCmsfqhe

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 25, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Microsoft launches SQL Server 2014, Analytics Platform System. And more

For @451Research clients: @mongodbinc improves document-database management, analytics and text search with 2.6 http://t.co/pygduzADXb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 14, 2014

For @451Research clients: @MapR adds Spark to its Distribution for Hadoop http://t.co/LGIX129JgJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 16, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Continuent targets Hadoop for database replication expansion with Tungsten Replicator 3.0 http://t.co/ak6jV4B81o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 15, 2014

For @451Research clients: @sasinstitute bolsters visualization, contextualization with text analysis http://t.co/fqqVarIiqw By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 14, 2014

For @451Research clients: @insightsquared seeks gold in analytics for salesforce, QuickBooks http://t.co/snxvmNiqB5 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 16, 2014

Microsoft launches SQL Server 2014, Analytics Platform System, previews Microsoft Azure Intelligent Systems Service http://t.co/9SAVlTPdp0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 16, 2014

SAP now claims more than 3,200 HANA customers, but has not broken out HANA revenue for Q1. http://t.co/N6FEeqAsGf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 17, 2014

InfiniDB Appoints Bob Wilkinson as CEO http://t.co/IZXYwPGww5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 16, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Cloudera raises $900m. Pivotal launches Big Data Suite. And more.

For @451Research clients: @Cloudera completes $900m funding round – yes, you read that right: $900m http://t.co/yNUuacIE5J

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 1, 2014

For @451Research clients: @gopivotal launches Big Data Suite, based on unlimited Hadoop http://t.co/GZjrWBzJzC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2014

For @451Research clients: @SAP gives its Business Warehouse more of the HANA treatment http://t.co/iTAjtCBa0Q By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Qubole racks up, ready for expanded Hadoop-based data analytics service http://t.co/wBTyPurPQs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 1, 2014

For @451Research clients: @datameer gets into the analytics workflow with data profiling for Hadoop http://t.co/z6tJMT8UF5 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

For @451Research clients: @beyondcoreinc bags funding to automate advanced analysis for the masses http://t.co/xVO5yK2usX By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 2, 2014

For @451Research clients: @tesoracorp seeks riches in OpenStack's Trove, elastic scale-out databases http://t.co/Egc0ldNjI0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 2, 2014

Cloudera Wraps Up $900 Million Financing Round http://t.co/hgTf2IKDaR Wait, what?

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

Cloudera CEO says 60% of its $900m financing will got to the company to fund expansion and product development. http://t.co/iwQrM26FzE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2014

ClearStory Data raises $21m series B funding. http://t.co/ZivMGzpmXF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

SQL Server 2014 now Generally Available http://t.co/ex6BYREq3P

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 1, 2014

Pivotal bundles Hadoop, Greenplum, HAWQ, GemFire and SQLFire into Pivotal Big Data Suite, with unlimited Pivotal HD http://t.co/ksL2J1nypn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 2, 2014

Hortonworks launches HDP 2.1 with Falcon. Knox, Storm, Solr and the results of the Stinger initiative. http://t.co/LcWqsrqHNo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 2, 2014

Hortonworks partners with LucidWorks to support Solr in HDP. http://t.co/ysafZfHwxq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2014

Cloudera Enterprise 5 now generally available. http://t.co/5My17U4RFs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 2, 2014

IBM adds R integration to its Hadoop distribution with InfoSphere BigInsights v2.1.2. http://t.co/zDOCu2X2Cj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Tajo SQL-on-Hadoop as a Top-Level Project http://t.co/LMwrLvfyEB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 1, 2014

MapR has announced the integration of Elasticsearch with the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. http://t.co/RIaKQg6dUm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2014

Twitter explains the details behind Manhattan, its real-time, multi-tenant distributed database http://t.co/y7BR5StpHH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2014

Databricks announced Spark SQL, bringing native support for SQL to Spark. http://t.co/CU0zmHMmwj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

The MariaDB Foundation announces general availability of MariaDB 10 http://t.co/oq2nQCIbe8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

SkySQL launches MariaDB Enterprise 2 and MariaDB Enterprise Cluster 2. http://t.co/Zb4SwZW2ZZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

1010data launches Version 7, with advances in data visualization, in-database applications and data integration. http://t.co/PiposKKgsF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

Continuent releases Tungsten Replicator 3.0 positioned for replicating data from MySQL, MariaDB and Oracle to Hadoop. http://t.co/5FXJB5jSnK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 1, 2014

InfiniDB launches version 4.5 of columnar database, fully parallel extract and tighter HDFS integration. http://t.co/mR0VzrZa77

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 31, 2014

SAP launches Adaptive Server Enterprise 16.0, now positioned for 'extreme' transactional applications. http://t.co/QtRtloPGIh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2014

LucidWorks launches SiLK log analysis offering built on Apache Solr, LogStash, Kibana and Flume. http://t.co/X5JjpBcjdb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 2, 2014

Jaspersoft expands partnership with Talend to launch Jaspersoft ETL Expanded Big Data Edition http://t.co/wulWQFD8Ir

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 2, 2014

Attunity launches Maestro data management platform for composing, conducting and monitoring information flow. http://t.co/UY2n7VcDzy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 2, 2014

Fusion.io collaborates with Oracle http://t.co/Ho74zeYMCd + Percona and MariaDB http://t.co/c5h4LpKSj8 on flash-aware interfaces for MySQL.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2014

Oracle announced Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0. http://t.co/QCfK2crVbt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 4, 2014

CitusData has released its columnar store extension for PostgreSQL using the Apache License. http://t.co/D9ADALYdpG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2014

A different perspective on the Target big data pregnancy prediction story – big data's beer and diapers equivalent http://t.co/ixLppSSqrR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 3, 2014

451 Research Database Landscape Map: The Movie http://t.co/hL13Mb1bgj #hcts14 Everything Is AWESOME!!!

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 1, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Informatica eyes eyes $1bn in sales. And more

For 451 clients: Informatica adds business twist to integration, DQ and MDM, eyes $1bn in sales http://t.co/SOX4OaQgu6 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2014

For 451 clients: Microsoft gives Excel cloud service more 'power' in bid to prime it further for BI http://t.co/H2XmWtSLM5 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2014

For 451 Research clients: MapR ties YARN and HP Vertica to its MapR Distribution including Apache Hadoop http://t.co/Zht96dSPjP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2014

For 451 Research clients: NoSQL through the looking glass? Couchbase sees a significant shift in adoption trends http://t.co/OrotDKQP2W

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2014

For 451 clients: 28msec goes vertical in financial services and publishing as it eyes venture funding http://t.co/LmHfPkbXyv By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2014

@451Research Clients: New Research "451 Data: Information governance falls flat despite the hype" https://t.co/JCuIGxnNGS

— Alan Pelz-Sharpe (@socialbizAlan) February 21, 2014

Qlik reports Q4 net income of $8.3m on revenue up 18% to $161.8m, FY net loss of $10.0m on revenue up 21% to $470.5m. http://t.co/9pt09TxvIB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2014

BeyondCore raises $9m in series A round led by Menlo Ventures http://t.co/qAmVDD7pjv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2014

Infobright introduces new Approximate Query functionality. http://t.co/wihADyt1ho

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2014

Cloudant introduces Cloudant Sync for Android and Cloudant Sync for iOS. http://t.co/LDLI5u5Gqx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2014

Tokutek has announced TokuMX v1.4 with improved sharding for MongoDB. http://t.co/MkgkXMnmWU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2014

Datawatch announces a global strategic alliance with MarkLogic. http://t.co/UREKeIajk7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2014

Percona CEO, Peter Zaitsev, evaluates the MySQL ecosystem. http://t.co/Db1lf6aT2O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

What is your preferred infrastructure for Hadoop deployments? That’s one of the primary questions being asked in the 451 Research 2013 Hadoop survey. The answer will have significant implications for the future direction of Hadoop.

While one of the primary benefits of Hadoop – low cost data storage – means that for many organisations the primary infrastructure for Hadoop has been commodity hardware, many systems and storage vendors now offer their own dedicated appliances and/or reference architecture for Hadoop.

We expect to see more of these dedicated Hadoop configurations as the incumbent infrastructure vendors look to cash-in on Hadoop adoption and try to add greater value.

We also see some companies exploring the potential for Hadoop in the cloud, as well as hosted deployments, and on virtual infrastructure – although those are arguably in the early stages of technical maturity, and adoption.

Which infrastructure configurations are most popular? That’s one of the things our survey is designed to find out. The early results perhaps unsurprisingly indicate a greater preference for Hadoop being deployed on commodity hardware. However, cloud and virtual deployments have also scored well.

Interestingly, the early results show the preference for Hadoop on cloud infrastructure is significantly higher among respondents that are still in the development and test stage with Hadoop, which supports our anecdotal evidence about the use-cases for Hadoop in the cloud.

In order to get a little more detail on deployment preferences, the survey also asks about the level of consideration, testing and adoption for dedicated Hadoop hardware and Hadoop-as-a-service offerings respectively.

Among the choices in the dedicated hardware category are offerings from DataDirect Networks, Dell, HP, Oracle, IBM, Pivotal, Teradata, Cisco and NetApp.

The choices in the Hadoop-as-a-service category include Altiscale, Amazon EMR (including MapR), MapR on Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Windows Azure HDInsight Service, Mortar Data, Qubole, Rackspace Big Data, SunGard Unified Analytics Services and Treasure Data.

To give your view on this and other questions related to the adoption of Hadoop, please take our 451 Research 2013 Hadoop survey.