StreamBase LiveView. ADVIZOR acquirers. The Accumulo Challenge. And more.

For 451 Research clients: StreamBase delivers LiveView platform for event-based analytics bit.ly/OLHjH1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 20, 2012

For 451 clients: Which vendor could make a visual analysis M&A play by taking out ADVIZOR? bit.ly/OLHnq1 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 20, 2012

SAND Technology’s CEO, CTO and COO have all left the company amid consideration of ‘strategic alternatives’ prn.to/OLIA0N

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 20, 2012

The Accumulo Challenge, Part I bit.ly/PqkwoX and Part II bit.ly/PqkBsz by @ghelleks

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 20, 2012

Of the 6,114 people on LinkedIn with #MapReduce in their profiles, 1,595 are in the San Francisco Bay Area

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 20, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

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.

Basho launches cloud storage play. Opera acquisitions. And more.

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* Basho Unveils Riak CS, Multi-Tenant Cloud Storage Software for Public and Private Clouds

* InsightsOne Secures $4.3 Million in Series A Round of Funding Led by Norwest Venture Partners

* Opera buys Commendo to create predictive analytics powerhouse

* Opera Solutions Increases Procurement Capabilities with Acquisition of Lexington Analytics

* How federal money will spur a new breed of big data

* Another HP org change Vertica no longer under the purview of Autonomy boss Mike Lynch?

* New SAS Visual Analytics Helps Organizations Analyze, Visualize Big Data

* Citrusleaf Delivers Real-Time NoSQL Replication

* NuoDB Launches Open Source Initiative on Github

* Actian Teams up With FlyingBinary and Tableau to Unleash Big Data Potential

* DH2i Launches and Unveils DxConsole Next Generation Virtualization Solution to Enable the Agile, Always-On Enterprise

* Acunu Analytics Ready to Preview!

* SAND Technology Announces Second Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2012

* Idera Announces VMware Database Performance Monitoring Solution

* Idera Announces SQL Compliance Manager 3.6

* WalmartLabs is building big data tools — and will then open source them

* The three waves of opportunities in big data

* 4 Big Data Myths – Part I

* For 451 Research clients

# Drawn to Scale raises funds for Hadoop-based real-time database Impact report

# ParElastic brings elastic parallelism to relational databases Impact report

# DH2i launches with PolyServe-inspired database-virtualization software Impact report

# Tape industry pins future on ‘big data,’ active archiving and LTFS Spotlight report

# Lucid Imagination dreams up new strategy for enterprise search Market development report

# Pentaho identifies ‘big data’ analytics as investment priority, hooks into DataStax Market development report

# GridGain positions in-memory data grid for real-time analytics Market development report

# Having earned its stripes in HPC, Panasas heads for ‘big data’ Market development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: Top 10 Dog and Cat Medical Conditions of 2011

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Drawn to Scale raises funding. Cloudera launches HBaseCon. And more.

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* Drawn to Scale Announces Funding for Real-Time Big Data

* Cloudera Announces HBaseCon 2012, the Industry’s First Apache HBase Community Conference

* Gazzang Launches Big Data Encryption and Key Management Platform

* Jaspersoft Closes Record Fiscal Year

* Schooner Information Technology Releases Membrain 4.0

* How Project Mercury is eBay’s Big Data play Up on the roof of EBay’s big data center.

* SAND Announces Universal Query

* Oracle has a cloud computing secret The potential impact of metered pricing.

* Why should I consider memcached plugin? …for MySQL.

* For 451 Research clients

# Microsoft launches SQL Server 2012, with an eye on ‘big data’ Impact report

# Global IDs hones governance, MDM focus; looks to the cloud and appliances for growth Impact report

# Clarabridge ups the ante in ‘voice of the customer’ with v5.0 as the CEM space heats up Impact report

# ScaleBase launches elastic load balancing for MySQL databases Market Development report

# Dassault’s Exalead searches for a ‘big data’ role Market Development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.