The Data Day, Today: May 8 2012

May 8th, 2012 — Data management

IBM acquires Vivisimo. Funding for Birst, ParAccel, Metamarkets and DataSift. And more.

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# IBM picks up Vivisimo to search for value in ‘big data’ Deal Analysis

# Teradata delivers on analytic cloud vision with Active Data Warehouse Private Cloud Impact Report

# The Big Blue picture for ‘big data’ analytics: IBM sheds light on BigSheets Impact Report

# Oversight Systems’ Continuous Analysis extracts actionable insight from data Impact Report

# Kalido updates MDM offering with business users, operationalizing master data in mind Impact Report

# Delphix reaps reward from agile approach to database virtualization Impact Report

# Automated Insights looks to pitch narrative, visuals and stats to enterprises Impact Report

# myDIALS eyes indirect sales in quest to be Internet access layer for analytics Impact Report

* IBM Advances Big Data Analytics with Acquisition of Vivisimo Also announces support for Cloudera.

* Teradata Announces 2012 First Quarter Results Revenue up 21% (PDF)

* Actuate Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results Revenue up 9% (PDF)

* Birst Secures $26 Million in Financing Led By Sequoia Capital

* ParAccel Closes Record Q1 Revenues and $20 Million Investment Round

* Metamarkets Raises $15 Million to Deliver Data Science-as-a-Service

* DataSift adds $7.2M: The story so far and focus for the future

* Teradata to Acquire eCircle (PDF)

* Google BigQuery brings Big Data analytics to all businesses

* TIBCO Spotfire Brings the Power of Data Discovery to Big Data and Extreme Information

* Jaspersoft Teams with VMware To Deliver Business Intelligence for Data-Driven Cloud Applications

* Kalido and Teradata Sign Global Reseller Agreement

* Actuate Announces Cloudera Alliance to Support Apache Hadoop and BIRT Developers in Big Data Integration

* Hortonworks and Kognitio Announce Technical Partnership Driving Apache Hadoop Adoption in Big Data Analytics Implementations

* Tokutek and PalominoDB Partner to Bring Scale, Performance to Database Deployments

* Acunu is pleased to announce v2 of the Acunu Data Platform!

* Is Yahoo really threatening memcached and Open Compute?

* Introducing Zend DBi as a MySQL Replacement on IBM i

* Zettaset and Hyve Solutions Build First Fully Integrated Enterprise OS Hadoop Solution

* Cloudera Announces New Japanese Subsidiary

* Bull Announces the Formation of Database Migration Business Unit

* Couchbase to Run Native with Key-Value API for ioMemory

* The Big Data Value Continuum

* Big Data is Business Intelligence plus Attention Deficit Disorder

* Nokia released Dempsy an open source stream data processing platform.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

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The Data Day, Today: Apr 19 2012

April 19th, 2012 — Data management

Splunk goes public. SkySQL and Connotate raise funding. And more.

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

* Splunk Prices Initial Public Offering 13,500,000 shares at $17.00 per share = $229.5m.

* Connotate Increases Momentum and Closes $7m Series B Round

* SkySQL Raises $4 million in Series A Round

* SAND Technology Announces Exploration of Potential Strategic Alternatives

* GoodData Closes out the Quarter With Increased Revenue Growth and Expanded Market Traction

* World’s Largest Telcos Adopt Graph Databases to Solve Connected Data Issues

* Gazzang Seizes Big Data Opportunity, Announces Record Quarter and Year over Year Growth

* Hadapt Adds Big Data Industry Veteran Christopher Lynch as Chairman of the Board of Directors

* PalominoDB and SkySQL Join Forces to Offer Unparalleled Remote Database Services to Leading Companies Worldwide

* Cloudant Data Layer as a Service Adds Support for Joyent Cloud

* GoGrid Introduces a High-Performance Platform for Predictive Analytics

* MongoDB Hadoop Connector Announced

* StreamBase Releases StreamBase LiveView 1.0

* Pervasive RushAnalyzer and Cloudera Eliminate Barriers to Rapid Hadoop ROI

* Pegasystems Announces Hadoop Big Data Support

* XtremeData Hires Former IBM Analytics Leader

* Lucid Imagination Announces General Availability of LucidWorks Enterprise 2.1

* Of open data and pregnant men

* Is UNQL Dead?

* MySQL in 2012: Report from Percona Live

* For 451 Research clients

# Will new offerings and price cuts encourage greater database-as-a-service adoption? Spotlight report

# Basho expands into cloud storage with Riak CS Impact Report

# SAP modernizes its application stack at the data layer and the mobile front end Impact Report

# QlikTech takes QlikView pricing out of the dark Impact Report

# Kitenga refreshes Hadoop-based content-analysis wares; finds rollouts a slow burn Impact Report

# CoreMedia looks to NoSQL to scale social experiences for its WCM platform Impact Report

# Boundary maps monitoring for ‘big data’ as its path to enterprise Impact Report

# Orchestra to add data quality notes to MDM ensemble as it continues to eye US growth Impact Report

# Columnar database provider SAND Technology puts itself up for sale M&A Insight

# Is it time for Microsoft to ditch partners for performance management and go shopping? Acquirer IQ

And that’s the Data Day, today.

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