The Data Day, A few days: July 18-23 2013

DataStax raises $45m. Actian’s post-acquisition binge strategy. And more

And that’s the data day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: January 29/30 2013

Actian acquires Pervasive. ObjectRocket has liftoff. And more.

And that’s the data day. today.

The Data Day, The week that was: October 22-26 2012

Cloudera launches Impala. Actuate snags Quiterian. Microsoft previews HDInsight.

And the rest:
– Microsoft previewed its Windows Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows.

– SAP launched a new “big data” bundle and go-to-market strategy.

– Informatica introduced Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition and reported its third quarter results.

– Also announcing financial results last week were QlikTech and Pervasive.

– Teradata updated its Unity suite with the addition of Unity Loader, and introduced its Unified Data Environment and the Unified Data Architecture.

– Splunk confirmed the release of Splunk Hadoop Connect and the Splunk App for HadoopOps.

– 10gen added five vice presidents to its management team.

– Rackspace partnered with Hortonworks to create OpenStack and Hadoop-based offerings for public and private cloud.

– Talend added support for Cassandra, HBase and MongoDB , and introduced big data profiling for Apache Hadoop to its integration platform

– MarkLogic announced support for HDFS and expanded its relationship with Hortonworks.

– Kognitio adopted a free licensing model.

– Calpont launched InfiniDB 3.5.

– MetaMarkets announced that it is open sourcing its Druid streaming, real-time data store.

– YarcData updated its uRiKA Big Data appliance for graph analytics.

– Alpine Data Labs announced a global OEM partnership with QlikTech.

– Actian and Attunity announced Attunity Replicate for Actian Vectorwise.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: September 19/20 2012

Pervasive considers its options. SnapLogic raises funding. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: September 13/14 2012

Oracle Endeca. Microstrategy. Who’s Really Using Big Data? And more

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Apr 19 2012

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

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* 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.

The Data Day, Today: Mar 8 2012

Microsoft launches SQL Server 2012. MapR integrates with Informatica. And more.

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* 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.

The Data Day, Today: Feb 24 2012

Teradata partners with Hortonworks. New CEOs for Zettaset and VoltDB. And more.

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* Teradata-Hortonworks Partnership to Accelerate Business Value from Big Data Technologies

* Skytree Unlocks the Advanced Analytics Power of Big Data with Unprecedented Performance, Scalability and Accuracy

* Big Data Innovator Zettaset Appoints Jim Vogt as New President and CEO

* Zettaset to Create Secure Hadoop with ‘SHadoop’ Initiative

* VoltDB Names Bruce Reading President and Chief Executive Officer

* Basho Unveils New Graphical Operations Dashboard, Diagnostics With Release of Riak 1.1

* Pervasive RushAnalyzer Launches ‘No Compromise’ Predictive Analytics for Hadoop and Big Data

* QlikTech Reveals Pricing for its QlikView Business Discovery Platform

* Kognitio Announces Completely Memory-Based Pricing

* Objectivity Adds New Plugin Framework, Integrated Visualizer And Support For Tinkerpop Blueprints To InfiniteGraph

* Announcing the Infochimps Platform for Big Data

* Big Data, Hadoop and StreamInsight

* Three New Cloud Providers join the MongoDB ecosystem

* Hadoop Has Promise but Also Problems

* Hortonworks: Reaffirming our Commitment to 100% Pure Open Source Despite speculation to the contrary.

* WhySQL? Evernote explains why it continues to use SQL databases.

* More on database consistency Anders Karlsson explains the different definitions of database consistency.

* Graphic proof of big demand for big data talent Or just graphic proof of use of phrase ‘big data’ in jobs ads?

* Will ‘big data’ transform your industry?

* For 451 Research clients

# CrowdFlower – it’s like Hadoop, but with people? Impact Report

# Teradata and Hortonworks strike Hadoop marketing and development deal Market Development report

# Hypertable reemerges with high-performance NoSQL database Market Development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.