2020 Trends in Data, AI and Analytics – COVID-19 Update

For @451Research clients: COVID-19 Update: 2020 Trends in Data, AI and Analytics https://t.co/hsa1335VYd Reassessing our trend predictions for 2020 in the light of COVID-19

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 19, 2020

For @451Research clients: @Altair_Inc reinforces stand-alone data and analytics ambitions, even as it prepares converged offering https://t.co/uXqu0qiczm

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 19, 2020

For @451Research clients: Coverage Initiation: @TectonAI revs its data platform for machine learning https://t.co/kK6MTpUGJB By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 26, 2020

For @451Research clients: Coverage initiation: https://t.co/ITpgrZFjkl enters AutoML space, seeking to democratize predictive analysis https://t.co/f1QKH2tVjd By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 18, 2020

For @451Research clients: Not all automated decision intelligence is equal https://t.co/Mw1rS4VWjj Krishna Roy surveys the expanding landscape of automated decision intelligence providers

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 16, 2020

For @451Research clients: @sigmacomputing adds extensibility as it builds its BI business on cloud data warehouses https://t.co/qOFUrG2A7Z By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 17, 2020

For @451Research clients: @knowico courts nonexperts, establishes partner network for its unified analytics platform https://t.co/ejua5d5vSf By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 24, 2020

For @451Research clients: Coverage Initiation: @HarbrData enables data marketplaces that are collaborative https://t.co/H0xmzflVc4 By @csillazsigri451

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 23, 2020

For @451Research clients: Coverage Initiation: @Big_Squid swims into AutoML waters for nonexperts and experts alike https://t.co/KhtR6JBOiN By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 25, 2020

For @451Research clients: @1touchIo expands with infusion of funding and privacy-centric use cases https://t.co/sT5JFvh54b By Paige Bartley and @gabekker

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 19, 2020

For @451Research clients: Risky business: The B2B tech industry's surprising barriers to being more data-driven https://t.co/Y5YgcYSyDp By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 22, 2020

For @451Research clients: @IntellectEU joins blockchain platform-as-a-service market with Catalyst Blockchain Platform https://t.co/0jB6iloNnu By @csillazsigri451

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 25, 2020

Starburst has raised $42m in Series B funding https://t.co/tpKinfIdyx

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 16, 2020

Immuta has raised a $40m series C funding round led by Intel Capital, with Ten Eleven Ventures, DFJ Growth, Dell Technologies Capital, Greycroft, Drive Capital and Citi Ventures. https://t.co/uNfbHGEQbn

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 25, 2020

SQream has raised $39.4m in Series B+ funding led by Mangrove Capital Partners and Schusterman Family Investments https://t.co/jBYSWB4leW

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 24, 2020

VEsoft, developer of the Nebula Graph database, has raised an $8m pre-A funding round. https://t.co/Tjvy2UzdKa

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 15, 2020

Fluree has raised a strategic round of funding from Ridgeline Ventures, Engage VC, and Good Growth Capital. https://t.co/Rz8b4jgZ9u

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 24, 2020

Databricks has announced the availability of the Delta Engine high-performance query engine for cloud data lakes, as well as the acquisition of Redash for data integration and visualization https://t.co/QYokdHxwxy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 24, 2020

Collibra has launched the Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud https://t.co/lBeba5RJGu

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 23, 2020

Information Builders unveils the new ibi brand as well as automated insights and data visualization enhancements https://t.co/1R6e4A4j9i

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 23, 2020

Databricks has announced that Apache Spark 3.0.0 is available on as part of the Databricks Runtime 7.0. https://t.co/hoILdUCL30

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 19, 2020

SAS Institute has announced the forthcoming release of SAS Viya 4 https://t.co/6LZIknUInt and closer integration with Microsoft Azure https://t.co/YbbFkDOHhu

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 17, 2020

Alteryx has launched Alteryx Analytics Hub and Alteryx Intelligence Suite, a new predictive modeling add-on for Alteryx Designer. https://t.co/I9rxhdv6aU

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 16, 2020

Yellowfin has released version 9.2 of its embedded BI and analytical app development environment https://t.co/MBBxZ1ZVAl

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 16, 2020

RapidMiner has delivered version 9.7 of its data science platform and rebranded RapidMiner Server as RapidMiner AI Hub https://t.co/z8X2WsbdKi

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 25, 2020

MariaDB has announced the general availability of MariaDB Community Server 10.5 https://t.co/pLlD13DbUE

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 25, 2020

Actian has announced the general availability of the updated Actian Vector for Hadoop database https://t.co/Xi1uqSPORw

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 24, 2020

DataStax has announced the private beta of Vector, an AIOps service for Apache Cassandra https://t.co/t1p0u9bxxN

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) June 16, 2020

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Assessing the runners and riders in the automated decision intelligence race. And more.

For @451Research clients: Assessing the runners and riders in the automated decision intelligence race https://t.co/8NUf83qpBK

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 21, 2020

For @451Research clients: Enterprise #blockchain adoption is stalling: Is this the calm before the storm? https://t.co/m5Z3P4x1ap By @csillazsigri451

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 19, 2020

For @451Research clients: Midmarket might: @zoho flexes its data management muscle for midsize firms https://t.co/qj3dTqZ4e7 By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 2, 2020

For @451Research clients: @incorta adds support for cloud data lake storage to its unified analytics platform as cloud demand ramps up https://t.co/7P547AGkln

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 27, 2020

For @451Research clients: Coverage Initiation: @lensesio is focused on providing visibility into streaming data flows https://t.co/GVEQTLnhKk Written with Rachel Dunning

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 5, 2020

For @451Research clients: @Domotalk revamps Appstore, aims to build BI operation as 'The Business Cloud' https://t.co/cRlOluh9gv By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 24, 2020

For @451Research clients: @algorithmia addresses enterprise data science operationalization amid expanding MLOps business https://t.co/t2cS2DeFfk By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 25, 2020

For @451Research clients: @privacera tackles elephant-sized privacy challenges by extending key Apache projects https://t.co/BK7DMLft2p BY Paige Bartley and Rachel Dunning

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 19, 2020

For @451Research clients: @hazelcast upgrades in-memory computing platform and snags additional funding https://t.co/wm4vzLqDyY By @csillazsigri451

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 25, 2020

For @451Research clients: Coverage Initiation: @obviouslyai emerges with natural language predictive analytic query service https://t.co/cPbMnrT9rT By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 3, 2020

For @451Research clients: Coverage Initiation: @molecula seeks to simplify big data virtualization with a zero-copy approach https://t.co/nbugB6X8n8 By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 3, 2020

For @451Research clients: KKR-owned @OneStream_Soft illuminates CPM business amid expansion into operational use cases https://t.co/53TjNZruu6 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 2, 2020

For @451Research clients: ODG becomes @ModelOp_Co, expands purview to model deployment, management and governance https://t.co/2N4EVmHNEG By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 17, 2020

Hasura has raised $9.9m in series A funding led by Vertex Ventures to grow the business behind its GraphQL API-based data access and data flow tools and services. https://t.co/tDVVdOFflK

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 2, 2020

Microsoft has updated Azure HDInsight with a new Microsoft supported distribution of Apache Hadoop and Spark, and also announced the GA of Azure Database for PostgreSQL Hyperscale https://t.co/WLeyC9u2lW

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) March 3, 2020

Talend has announced the Winter ‘20 release of Talend Data Fabric, introducing Talend Cloud Data Inventory https://t.co/8fwtArlJyT

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 28, 2020

Tableau has launched Tableau 2020.1 with Dynamic Parameters as well as improvements to the Data Management and Server Management Add-ons. https://t.co/0SY5wAA1Nx

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 27, 2020

RapidMiner has announced the launch of RapidMiner 9.6 with a focus on collaboration between coders, non-coding data scientists, and business users https://t.co/AQ9Uq9vCSi

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 27, 2020

Yugabyte has announced the general availability of YugabyteDB 2.1 with two data center (2DC) deployments, reduced read latency, and encryption enhancements https://t.co/ZQSsjmQlv8

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 27, 2020

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Sisense raises over $100m with a $1bn+ valuation. And more.

For @451Research clients: Voice of the Enterprise: AI & Machine Learning, Use Cases – Charts & Figures https://t.co/6yu0jQrHTD and Crosstabs https://t.co/PllXULm0Su By @nickpatience and @JeremyDKorn

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 6, 2020

For @451Research clients: Doppelgangers: the many identities of the modern #datacatalog https://t.co/KYYVSgG8w0 By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 3, 2020

For @451Research clients: @Informatica doubles down on data governance as an enabler of value in winter 2019 release https://t.co/wew2cvBx7B By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 2, 2020

For @451Research clients: @RapidMiner illuminates its business amid enhancements with enterprise data science in mind https://t.co/Mysaj5jPmc By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 2, 2020

For @451Research clients: As #DataOps heats up, @datakitchen_io highlights its role in enabling agile analytics https://t.co/x5617kcUSv

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 7, 2020

For @451Research clients: Armageddon or advancement? #CCPA's emerging effect on the digital experience https://t.co/QvY7XUrKvd By Paige Bartley

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 7, 2020

For @451Research clients: Automation, Bots & Mining: The AI-enabled intelligent digital business, 2020 research agenda https://t.co/iq3aVsueLQ By @CarlLehmann1

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 3, 2020

For @451Research clients: Respondents to 451 Research's Tech Corporate Development Outlook survey rated @salesforce's $15.5bn purchase of @tableau as the most significant transaction of the year. https://t.co/Os5OKeTi4z By @brenondaly

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 2, 2020

Sisense has announced a funding round of over $100m with a $1bn+ valuation https://t.co/qzXIcWkSDI

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 9, 2020

Informatica has appointed Amit Walia as its new CEO and has dislosed that it expects approximately $1.3bn in GAAP revenue for 2019. https://t.co/taBRs4LWUb

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 3, 2020

Talend has appointed Christal Bemont, former chief revenue officer at SAP Concur, as its chief executive officer https://t.co/b1bmMARIIY

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 10, 2020

ArangoDB has announced the general availability of ArangoDB 3.6 https://t.co/0CkHnHq26y

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) January 8, 2020

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Stardog pitches knowledge graph as data unification platform. And more.

For @451Research clients: @stardog_db pitches its knowledge graph as the data unification platform for the enterprise https://t.co/wYNqITEJiA

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 23, 2018

For @451Research clients: @RapidMiner ooks to boost data scientists' productivity with Auto Model https://t.co/jwRtiTMcLh By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 22, 2018

For @451Research clients: @Ayasdi extends its enterprise AI reach to US government vertical and non-data scientistshttp://ow.ly/AGk330itHRt By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 19, 2018

QuasarDB raises $2.5m in seed round funding for its time series database, led by Partech Ventures with Orolia and other private investors. https://t.co/hxBSzh5MbS

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 23, 2018

Neo4j now has more than 1,000 customers for its graph database. https://t.co/1F4dhYYADt

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 23, 2018

DataTorrent adds support for OLAP with Druid to its Real-time Streaming platform with version 3.1 https://t.co/lUBd1POJDu

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 22, 2018

ParallelM launches MLOps to enable users to deploy, manage, and scale machine learning in production https://t.co/OFkgkKY1kL

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 21, 2018

SnapLogic has updated its Enterprise Integration Cloud platform, including enhancements to its Iris AI capabilities https://t.co/dwCENgy1Vn

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 23, 2018

Reltio has updated its self-learning data platform with the launch of Reltio Cloud 2018.1 https://t.co/nqBv9MNhve

— Matt Aslett’s The Data Day (@thedataday) February 22, 2018

And that’s the data day, today.

What happened in data platforms and analytics this week is insane

For @451Research clients: Learning analytics: machine learning adoption drivers, potential obstacles https://t.co/5ojovKBuBh By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 16, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SASsoftware assesses its opportunities as it reaches middle-age https://t.co/gv4hVbRowY By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: @RapidMiner reframes for DIY predictive analysis with new execs and VC https://t.co/rPN0iFgvZI By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 14, 2016

StreamSets unveils StreamSets Dataflow Performance Manager https://t.co/Co1VevbXkC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2016

For @451Research clients: @HPE rolls out Vertica 8, drives multi-cloud strategy with support for Azure https://t.co/qL9EarK9tU By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: @TARGIT repositions to focus on BI opportunities beyond Microsoft https://t.co/7uTY9qPgQp By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Accelerite proves it can build as well as buy with ShareInsights for big-data analytics https://t.co/9zD93va2PM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 16, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Anaplan illuminates enterprise cloud-planning business as it mulls IPO https://t.co/cnMaiRhcdf By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 15, 2016

For @451Research clients: @RiversandMDM updates MDM offering with a view toward next-generation apps https://t.co/UP7Pb5aXEK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 15, 2016

For @451Research clients: @MariaDB poised to bring MaxScale 2.0 database proxy out of beta https://t.co/Ue94u5GVds By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2016

Unravel Data launches Performance Intelligence Platform https://t.co/ESxVtPRWEa raises $7m+ Series A https://t.co/TVLfXHByN9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2016

Elastic acquires behavioral analytics provider Prelert https://t.co/xFi6tTmeTN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 16, 2016

Teradata announces Teradata Everywhere – on multiple public clouds, managed cloud, and on-premises https://t.co/owpRGmYkDg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2016

Teradata targets Borderless Analytics with updates to Teradata QueryGrid and Teradata Unity. https://t.co/z8qR55zQL8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2016

MicroStrategy unveils MicroStrategy 10.5 https://t.co/anN71RBI6R

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 15, 2016

GridGain’s In-Memory Data Fabric is now available on Microsoft Azure https://t.co/bFGXPp8kTy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2016

NuoDB announces the general availability of NuoDB Release 2.5 https://t.co/0Rp2kdP4KG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 13, 2016

Clustrix introduces ClustrixDB 8.0 https://t.co/wqk9892Qao

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 14, 2016

Zaloni introduces Bedrock DLM to address the need for big data lifecycle management https://t.co/cuWUXOt8EF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 14, 2016

Percona introduces Percona Monitoring and Management open source database performance analysis tool. https://t.co/g4W2sOr2CV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 14, 2016

Apache Hadoop 3.0.0 is now in alpha https://t.co/3lkieHoD8y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 15, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Funding for Qubole, ScaleArc, GigaSpaces, MariaDB. And more.

For @451Research clients: Could @Teradata acquire its way back to data and analytics growth? https://t.co/OEcgy1vUKa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 18, 2016

For @451Research clients: What's driving machine learning, and where is it taking us? https://t.co/gLc0uN8bzk By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 22, 2016

For @451Research clients: Total data reporting: Renaissance or demise of the BI report? https://t.co/VRaARxWiiQ By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 22, 2016

For @451Research clients: #NoSQL analysis tools: a new M&A frontier for 2016? https://t.co/KGlps9nJ1b By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 20, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Domotalk lifts the veil on its cloud BI business, looks to expand https://t.co/MU6CyzbYf3 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 18, 2016

For @451Research clients: @crankuptheamps cranks up message-processing system, looks beyond finance https://t.co/mZqz3gTrHu By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SAP offers tighter link between HANA database and Hadoop with SPS 11 https://t.co/Ma4XTDw9GA By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 22, 2016

For @451Research clients: @RethinkDB pushes for 'real time' workloads with NoSQL document database https://t.co/zTGBjNGSId By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 20, 2016

Qubole raises $30m series C led by IVP https://t.co/DjTQw0OYad

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 21, 2016

ScaleArc announces $20m funding led by Bain Capital Ventures https://t.co/uqkXfeE6Vr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 20, 2016

GigaSpaces raises $20m led by Claridge Israel with BRM, FTV and Intel Capital. https://t.co/2GfSCkwHaf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 21, 2016

MariaDB raises $9m, appoints Michael Howard new CEO and Monty Widenius as CTO https://t.co/MYMbwasuqR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 21, 2016

Splice Machine raises $9m funding from Correlation Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures https://t.co/uhYp7Cetlt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 20, 2016

Datical raises $8m in series B funding led by S3 Ventures with Mercury Fund and Austin Ventures. https://t.co/tLEJRqJldR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 22, 2016

Cloudera announces Cloudera Director 2.0 for to deploying and managing Hadoop in cloud environments. https://t.co/7Fm3NfQvFa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 22, 2016

Hortonworks (HDP) asked for add'l $100M from investors and they lose $300M in valuation. Ouch. @maslett #BigData pic.twitter.com/W8iFtAImzI

— Eric Anderson (@ericmander) January 21, 2016

Hortonworks Plunges 22% on Secondary; Some Explaining to Do, Says Needham – Barron's https://t.co/vhoU2FE7eO

— Matt Asay (@mjasay) January 19, 2016

Google submits proposal for Dataflow to become an Apache Software Foundation open source project https://t.co/t1fmjFqdO0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 20, 2016

RapidMiner has announced the release of RapidMiner 7, including RapidMiner Studio. https://t.co/PZV73GEYVU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 22, 2016

European Union to Scrutinize Usage of Big Data by Large Internet Companies https://t.co/93PdKa3Vwy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 18, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

New funding for Palantir, Sisense and RapidMiner. And more

Our latest @451Research TBI report explores database-, Hadoop- and analytics-as-a-service adoption trends https://t.co/5QfKhxf47h

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2016

For @451research clients: @ConfluentInc updates data platform based on Kafka message broker https://t.co/jIIJCRFZld By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 8, 2016

For @451Research clients: @AlpineDataLabs eyes fresh funding, expands predictive analytics focus https://t.co/9G6wcZGJt2 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Centrify eyes security opportunity, adds Hadoop and NoSQL https://t.co/esWTGrNx2X By Garret Bekker and Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2016

For @451Research clients: @NeoTechnology opens Cypher query language with Neo4j graph database update https://t.co/LO13myAk9z By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2016

For @451Research clients: @ThoughtSpot revs its search-driven analytics with version 3 https://t.co/v54aHNQgGn By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2016

For @451Research @narrativesci looks to new fields for its natural language generation service https://t.co/S2Si13K4jP By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2016

For @451Research clients: @MetaScaleLLC finds broader reach with partnership strategy https://t.co/eZX6FaNuOI By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 5, 2016

For @451Research clients: Following C9 buy, @InsideSales serves up forecasting for full sales funnel https://t.co/1NJa4SgPMO By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2016

Palantir’s latest funding totalled $879.8m at a $20bn valuation. https://t.co/kX6rqL0KfI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2016

Sisense has closed a $50m series D funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. https://t.co/htqnnEmvjk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 7, 2016

RapidMiner has closed a $16m equity financing round led by NGP with participation from existing investors. https://t.co/hP0mfFrOO1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 5, 2016

Microsoft has acquired Metanautix for SQL access to any data. https://t.co/gFPTsChLRS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 4, 2016

PostgreSQL 9.5 is now GA with added UPSERT capability, row level security, and various ‘big data’ features https://t.co/y4eax7Ff3U

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 8, 2016

Syncsort promotes Josh Rogers from president to CEO https://t.co/gPNQQXUYSJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 5, 2016

Cloudability acquires data visualization startup DataHero https://t.co/gDCJ5xzmYU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2016

Strata+Hadoop World special

For @451Research clients: @Cloudera introduces #Kudu, a new #Hadoop storage engine for fast analytics http://t.co/lbsRPCM027

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MapR adds JSON document support to its Hadoop-native NoSQL database http://t.co/AiZN3tXiRp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

Hortonworks has announced the availability of the Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF) support subscription for Apache NiFI. http://t.co/FgZHFp9N8f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Talend adds Spark to data integration platform with version 6.0 http://t.co/U3Ljr28I6i

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2015

For @451Research clients: @impetustech tempts data-streaming developers with free @StreamAnalytix http://t.co/3nqThykTe8 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 1, 2015

For @451Research clients: In race to Hadoop, @VeristormInc aims no mainframe data gets left behind http://t.co/Ljsg8JpP27 By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

MapR has announced the developer preview of MapR-DB with native support for JSON http://t.co/ObnGgLmETF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

The ODPi (aka Open Data Platform initiative) becomes a collaborative project of The Linux Foundation http://t.co/F0IjeSweVO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2015

Microsoft expands Azure Data Lake with Azure Data Lake Analytics http://t.co/PwD14zAlrn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2015

Apache Drill gurus at Dremio raise more than $10M from Redpoint and Lightspeed http://t.co/flOx5AcoUT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 28, 2015

Infoworks raises $5m series A http://t.co/OZgDKFD6yw launches Dynamic Data Warehousing Platform for Hadoop http://t.co/dJMA7uy6TS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2015

Talend launches version 6 of its data integration platform, with native support for Apache Spark and Spark Streaming. http://t.co/FxWovxrHml

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 30, 2015

Pivotal contributes HAWQ analytics engine and MADlib data science tools to the Apache Software Foundation. http://t.co/Vy3uHLadfu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

Pentaho (a Hitachi Data Systems company) previews version 6.0 of its big data integration and analytics platform. http://t.co/YmHJTvNSWC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

Aerospike releases version 3.6 of its NoSQL database with enhanced support for Spark and Hadoop. http://t.co/stVSrgVrV9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

Amazon Web Services launches Amazon Elasticsearch Service http://t.co/lWQFXinv11

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2015

SAP updates Adaptive Server Enterprise http://t.co/asjaU6wxWA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

RapidMiner launches Radoop v2.6, with support for incorporating SparkR and PySpark scripts. http://t.co/al0jjziI2f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

Syncsort’s DMX-h data integration software integrates with Apache Kafka and Apache Spark http://t.co/XGWCiuq2IK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

Dataiku integrates its Data Science Studio with Apache Spark. http://t.co/n5IcEx2sHP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

Attunity launches Visibility 7.0 http://t.co/3Uci157tH0 Attunity Replicate Express http://t.co/YEF7K3zd9v

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 29, 2015

Bigstep launches Full Metal Data Lake, a data lake as a service offering http://t.co/hRUm4OUYND

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 1, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.

Open Data Platform launched. And more.

For @451Research clients: @Hortonworks, @IBM, @Pivotal et al. launch #OpenDataPlatform Hadoop industry association http://t.co/0vGDFqIGZh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MapR outlines wider vision, co-launches Myriad project to unite Hadoop, Mesos and Docker http://t.co/50Ex4KZgcY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Tamr_Inc launches vertical strategy for self-service data preparation http://t.co/I8Xb7r9dwX By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MemSQL connects with Apache Spark for real-time in-memory analytics http://t.co/1zEqeI5aNf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2015

Hortonworks, Pivotal, IBM (and others) form Open Data Platform industry association for Hadoop http://t.co/2hxqmwKqoi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Cloudera explains why it has not joined the Open Data Platform. http://t.co/Wr2BFPK6dT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Pivotal will open source HAWQ, Greenplum and GemFire http://t.co/e8UkzIaT29 forms strategic alliance with Hortonworks http://t.co/K5Z3uIQP9k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Cloudera claims 525 subscription customers and more than $100m revenue in fiscal 2015 http://t.co/tGzrkZ9aRl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Oracle updates big data offerings including Oracle Big Data Discovery and Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data http://t.co/zJPLd1R8pD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

RapidMiner has raised $15m series B funding led by Ascent Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners. http://t.co/JFyZgeUe6o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Sqrrl raises $7m series B, launches Sqrrl Enterprise 2.0 linked data analysis platform (based on Apache Accumulo) http://t.co/SqADIxApE6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

BlueTalon has announced its data access and security offering for Hadoop along with $5m in funding. http://t.co/RR9ZMKnyRT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Microsoft offers a preview of Azure HDInsight running on Linux, amongst other things http://t.co/S4HqsGeSzh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

MapR updates Hadoop distribution with cross-datacenter replication for MapR-DB http://t.co/yfTFrBS4fJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

IBM updates BigInsights for Apache Hadoop http://t.co/tejPcHGRfz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

RapidMiner launches self-service advanced analytics for Hadoop http://t.co/N6G2lSnqzG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

HP launches Haven Predictive Analytics, based on Distributed R http://t.co/jGMuYrh59r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Tamr updates data unification platform http://t.co/VaAIhiEGKm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Altiscale adds Spark http://t.co/RE9b79h5DE Kerberos authentication http://t.co/k0FqgxoxNK to the Altiscale Data Cloud

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Qubole adds Apache Spark to its Qubole Data Service. http://t.co/GkRsx7oLzX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Tableau Software has announced support for Apache Spark via a direct connector for Spark SQL. http://t.co/H6oXVuMY0k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

FICO launches Big Data Analyser (based on Karmasphere) http://t.co/B1payHzL9h Data Management Integration Platform http://t.co/FY3UTxHhEM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Qlik partners with JethroData for interactive SQL-on-Hadoop http://t.co/touQWlX2Hj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

DataRPM delivers version 8.0 of its smart machine insights software. http://t.co/EAXZpACPUz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Cloudera and Deloitte announce strategic alliance http://t.co/f6zYd4SgVN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2015

Couchbase and Hortonworks partner to deliver integration via Storm, Kafka and Sqoop http://t.co/K1swVtZ9Ju

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

Centrify delivers Hadoop-Active Directory integration with Centrify Server Suite 2015. http://t.co/MnVHS3XQaL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

GridGain launches version 7.0 of its In-Memory Data Fabric Enterprise Edition built on Apache Ignite. http://t.co/ZF1RlWPl4A

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Cloudwick launches managed services for Hortonworks http://t.co/tm7tGN1vjl Cloudera http://t.co/xBf0SeqxR5 DataStax http://t.co/p726sukNWD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

Tesora enables the provisioning of Oracle Database in OpenStack via Trove. http://t.co/agzSxpObHq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.

Funding for MongoDB, Basho, Neo and Treasure Data. And more

For @451Research clients: @TIBCO provides Clarity on its play in cloud data preparation http://t.co/mz0dh8KDno By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Altiscale to scale up its Hadoop-as-a-service operations following $30m series B round http://t.co/5uOsZxqYIq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2015

For @451Research clients: Mixed-workload Hadoop clusters hold the key for @Pepperdata – and vice versa http://t.co/uC68k7IGQo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2015

For @451Research clients: @IBM rings in new year with enterprise version of dashDB data warehouse http://t.co/ZAOsaMTsdB By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 15, 2015

For @451Research clients: With a new management team, @BirstBI sets its BI sights on enterprise deals http://t.co/j6YcImDDZC By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 16, 2015

For @451Research clients: @RapidMiner looks to step up advanced analysis business http://t.co/b7mJVF6oCD By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 15, 2015

MongoDB confirms $80m investment round, led by an unnamed sovereign wealth fund and involving Goldman Sachs. http://t.co/LcUqaCW4LR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2015

Basho announces $25m series G funding round led by Georgetown Partners. http://t.co/4FqDBFS7fI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2015

Neo Technology announces a $20m series C funding round, led by Creandum with Dawn Capital. http://t.co/LtemAaFnvD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 15, 2015

Treasure Data has raised $15m in Series B financing, led by Scale Venture Partners. http://t.co/7zWlp2NpYQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2015

Alteryx has announced the availability of Alteryx Analytics 9.5. http://t.co/cVnhAXXNRg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 15, 2015

Apache Flink (formerly Stratosphere) graduates as a top-level ASF project http://t.co/5R2nMIFUkD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2015

Adaptive Insights appoints Tom Bogan as new CEO http://t.co/aVferiqHsv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2015

#AsterixDB proposed to the #Apache #Incubator https://t.co/5NJSs62wBL #bigdata #opensource #DBMS

— Chris Mattmann (@chrismattmann) January 15, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.