NGDATA searches for consumer intelligence. Sparsity looks for social analytics partners.

For 451 Research clients: NGDATA positions Lily as a ‘big data’ platform for consumer intelligence bit.ly/Tt0hEZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Sparsity seeks partners, funding for graph-based social networking analytics bit.ly/R0oUfh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2012

Nice write-up of my Total Data presentation at Talend Connect bit.ly/R0oXrt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2012

SAP HANA One is now available for production use on AWS. bit.ly/V5WkwQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2012

Software AG’s Terracotta business generated €5m license revenue in Q3. bit.ly/Tt0AiX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2012

Software AG’s webMethods 9.0 is now tightly integrated with Terracotta. bit.ly/Tt0vMo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2012

Hadapt has announced version 2.0 of its Adaptive Analytical Platform, including integration with Tableau.s.tt/1qcem

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2012

Google has open source Supersonic, a query engine library for creating a column oriented database back-end. bit.ly/Tt0xnn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2012

Delphix adds support for Oracle RAC and Microsoft SQL Server with 3.0. bit.ly/Wonk8S

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2012

Lavastorm Analytics adds direct support for the R programming language. bit.ly/SWjUsJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2012

MarkLogic and SGI team up for SGI DataRaptor with MarkLogic database. bit.ly/Tt1U5x

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2012

Clustrix and GoGrid partner for Database-as-a-Service. s.tt/1qaMu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Informatica buys Heiler. Objectivity updates graph database. And more.

For 451 Research clients: In its second MDM deal, Informatica pays $104m for PIM vendor Heiler Software bit.ly/PUhWqw By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Objectivity positions graph database as relational complement with InfiniteGraph 3.0 bit.ly/PUhf0o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

For 451 Research clients: SAP targets industry-specific analysis game with ‘analytic edition’ bundles bit.ly/PUhRTH By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Red Hat partners with 10gen to wake JBoss from its NoSQL slumber bit.ly/PUigpb Analyst Note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

Oracle updates Business Intelligence bit.ly/Wg2gjT and Exalytics In-Memory Machine Software bit.ly/Wg2pUm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

Cloudant has announced a custom development and strategic investment agreement with In-Q-Tel. prn.to/PUiywi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

Big Data’s Biggest Obstacles s.hbr.org/Weixps

— Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) October 2, 2012

Amazon’s Relational Database Service is now part of the AWS Free Usage Tier. bit.ly/PUiInh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

If data scientists are so hot, why are there so few data scientist job postings? bit.ly/VpjdsJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

The remarkable growth of big data, as a research topic bit.ly/VpjHim

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 2, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Special Twitter crash double edition. TransLattice, SAP, Lavastorm, QlikTech. And more.

For 451 Research clients: TransLattice unweaves distributed database from application platform bit.ly/Pskkox

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 26, 2012

For 451 clients: SAP stakes out BI investments, refreshes BusinessObjects stack, visualization tool bit.ly/PskCvq By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 26, 2012

For 451 clients: Lavastorm combines complex analytics and resolution controls in an integrated platform bit.ly/LRtdbp By Carl Lehmann

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 27, 2012

Unleashing the power of #Hadoop: @Cloudera and @HP join forces to deliver robust enterprise #BigData solutions bit.ly/Qlgj8u

— Cloudera (@cloudera) July 26, 2012

QlikTech announced a net loss of $2.0m in Q2 on revenue of $85.8m, up 16% year-over-year. bit.ly/LRtr2p

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 27, 2012

Excited to announce we raised $25M Series C from new and existing investors to drive our mission to revolutionize BI bit.ly/OZlu6N

— GoodData (@gooddata) July 25, 2012

Updated: NoSQL database skills popularity, according to LinkedIn profiles bit.ly/P6hW2L

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 27, 2012

Thinking about the HDFS vs. Other Storage Technologies:hortonworks.com/blog/thinking-…

— eric baldeschwieler (@jeric14) July 25, 2012

Why we build our platform on HDFS: bit.ly/Oby88b #Hadoop

— Cloudera (@cloudera) July 26, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Basho enters Japan. US Senate/NSA open source policy and NoSQL design brouhaha.

For 451 Research clients: Basho enters Japan with IDC Frontier adoption deal and investment round bit.ly/MHwB4V

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

NSA Mimics Google, Pisses Off Senate bit.ly/MHyo9YOpen source policy and NoSQL design brouhaha (via @curtmonash)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

What is BigCache bit.ly/MHzcvC Looks like a potential alternative to @terracottatech BigMemory ( via @al3xandru)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

Nodeable Bolsters Hadoop with StreamReduce Analytics Engine for Real-Time Data Insights and Faster Batch Processing wp.me/p1YRIA-6g

— Nodeable, Inc. (@Nodeable) July 18, 2012

SAP Augments Embedded Database for Cloud Deployments prn.to/NMuiMZ SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere, On-Demand Edition

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

Apache Hadoop is very much like delivering lunch to 300,000 people in Mumbai bit.ly/NMCLQt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) July 18, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

SAP expands HANA. Informatica embraces big data. Gary Bloom joins MarkLogic. And more.

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* For 451 Research clients

# Informatica 9.5: ‘big data’ runs through the integration platform makeover Impact Report

# Lucid Imagination launches search-based ‘big data’ platform Impact Report

# Datameer updates Hadoop-based BI stack with an eye to more complex analysis Impact Report

# MarkLogic searches for operational analytics role with plans for SQL, MapReduce support Impact Report

# Infobright shines following shift to machine-generated data Impact Report

# Starcounter focuses on performance with in-memory database update Impact Report

# Guavus bears fruit with data-processing platform for communications operators Impact Report

# InsightSquared bags $4.5m series A funding and salesforce.com as an investor Impact Report

# MarkLogic names veteran exec Gary Bloom as new president and CEO Analyst note

* SAP Continues to Expand Capabilities and Scale of SAP HANA Platform and Ease Developer Adoption

* SAP HANA Offers Multi-Node Capabilities to Help Customers Scale Out

* Gary Bloom Joins MarkLogic as Chief Executive Officer

* Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

* Informatica 9.5 Unleashes the Power of Hadoop

* Informatica Brings Master Data Management to Big Data, Social, Cloud and Mobile Computing

* Talend Announces New Release of Enterprise Open Source Integration Platform

* Lucid Imagination Combines Search, Analytics and Big Data to Tackle the Problem of Dark Data

* Big Data Refinery Fuels Next-Generation Data Architecture

* 7 Key Drivers for the Big Data Market

* Google puts a price tag on Cloud SQL services

* Actuate and Hortonworks Collaborate to Visualize Big Data

* Hadapt and Cloudera Deliver Big Data Analytics with Apache Hadoop

* Cloudera Partners With Hadoop Managed Services Provider MetaScale to Help Large Traditional Enterprises Adopt Apache Hadoop

* Opera Solutions’ Big Analytics Tailor Made for SAP HANA: Signal Hub Technology

* Cloudant to Contribute Big Data Capabilities to Apache CouchDB Project

* Hortonworks and Kognitio Announce Technical Partnership

* Starcounter Unveils World’s Fastest Consistent Database

* XAP 9.0 – Geared for Real-Time Big Data Stream Processing

* How long before R overtakes SAS and SPSS?

* Betting big on live sports data, Perform lays €120 million on RunningBall

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Splunk soars on IPO. VMware acquires Cetas. Vertica retain autonomy. And more.

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* For 451 Research clients

# Splunk IPO: $3bn and counting M&A Insight

# VMware snaps up Cetas Software for ‘big data’ analytics Deal Analysis

# HP’s Vertica retains its autonomy, continues integration with Autonomy Impact Report

# SAP makes long-awaited predictive analytics move of its own Impact Report

# Sanbolic pitches data management platform for server, desktop and database consolidation Impact Report

* Splunk IPO kills, lives up to expectations

* VMware acquires Cetas Software for Cloud and Big Data Analytics

* Opera Solutions Acquires Procurement Analytics Tools and Services from BIQ and Lexington Analytics

* Terascala Announces $14M Series B Funding Round Led by Strategic Partner Consortium

* Ravel Acquired by W2O Group To Expand Big Data Client Services And Enrich In-House Analytics and Insights Technology

* Teradata Active Data Warehouses Provide Private Cloud Benefits

* Pentaho Introduces New Interactive Visualization and Expanded Big Data Analytics

* Teradata Unveils New Purpose-Built Appliance for SAS High-Performance Analytics

* SAP Establishes Global Managing Board to Lead Company

* Oracle to Hadoop Under OneAppliance: GridIron Introduces First All-Flash Appliance Line With Unprecedented Performance to Tackle Unified Big Data Processing

* Lucid Imagination Technology Integration with SugarCRM Lets Customers Enjoy Improved Global Search Capabilities with Apache Lucene/Solr

* The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra v1.1

* Miso project: how it will help you make your own Guardian-style infographics and data visualisations

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.

IBM launches Galileo database update. SAP outlines database roadmap. And more.

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* Made in IBM Labs: New IBM Software Accelerates Decision Making in the Era of Big Data IBM launches DB2 10 and InfoSphere Warehouse 10.

* SAP Unveils Unified Strategy for Real-Time Data Management to Grow Database Market Leadership

* SAP Unveils Strategy to Gain Predictive Insights From Big Data

* TIBCO Delivers Breakthrough Software to Analyze Big Data in Motion

* TIBCO Announces Intent to Acquire LogLogic

* TIBCO Spotfire and Attivio Partner to Deliver New Levels of Integration and Discovery for Data and Content

* Mortar Data, Hadoop for the Rest of Us, Gets Seed Funding

* The coming in-memory database tipping point. Microsoft’s perspective on in-memory databases.

* Jaspersoft Extends Partnership with Talend to Deliver Big Data Integration

* Oracle to Hold MySQL Connect Conference in San Francisco September 29 and 30, 2012

* Percona XtraDB Cluster Open Source Software Provides a New Approach to High Availability MySQL

* Tokutek Brings Replication Performance to MySQL and MariaDB

* Continuent Announces Tungsten Enterprise 1.5 for Multi-Master, Multi-Region MySQL Data Services in the Amazon EC2

* SkySQL, hastexo Form Highly Available Partnership

* MySQL at Twitter Twitter releases its MySQL modifications under BSD license.

* Percona Bundles New Relic to Provide Gold and Platinum Support Customers with Comprehensive Application Visibility

* Percona Toolkit 2.1 for MySQL Enables Schema Changes without Scheduling Downtime

* Percona XtraBackup 2.0 for MySQL and Percona Server Provides Increased Performance

* Delphix Expands Agile Data Platform to Support Oracle Exadata

* Red Hat and 10gen Create Compelling Open Source Data Platform

* Announcing Pre-Production MongoDB Subscription from 10gen

* VoltDB Announces Version 2.5

* Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta: Partners Test Big Data, Hadoop Support

* Sungard wants to sell you Hadoop as a service

* Actian and Lenovo Team to Optimize Big Data and Business Intelligence with New Appliance

* Objectivity Expands European Management Team With Former Sones Founder Mauricio Matthesius

* expressor Expands Data Integration Platform Into Big Data

* The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Sqoop as a Top-Level Project

* LucidDB has left Eigenbase moved to Apache License

* For 451 Research clients

# IBM looks to the stars with Galileo relational database update Impact Report

# Indicee eyes fresh VC as it establishes beachhead for cloud BI service using OEM sales Impact Report

# Percona launches XtraDB Cluster for MySQL database high availability Impact Report

# Tokutek targets replication performance with database update Impact Report

# ‘Big data’ in the datacenter: Vigilent secures $6.7m funding round Impact Report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

SAP targets HANA at SMEs. WibiData raises $5m. Zimory acquires Sones devs. And more.

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* SAP to Arm Small and Midsize Enterprises With Real-Time Analytics Powered by SAP HANA

* Hadoop startup WibiData raises $5M to power web analytics

* Zimory Acquires Database Development Team from Sones

* Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Advanced Analytics for Big Data

* Kalido Fuels Growth with New Customers, Market Leading Data Governance Capabilities in 2011

* Xeround Announces Free Version of Popular Cloud Database

* Hypertable Inc. Announces New Products and Services for Next Generation Hadoop NoSQL Database Deployments

* Cloudera Connector for Tableau Has Been Released

* Information Builders Launches WebFOCUS Hyperstage to Speed Performance and Delivery of Business Intelligence

* Actian Releases Vectorwise Workgroup Edition, Claims Best in Affordable Big Data Analytics to Mid-Market

* 10gen and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Leading NoSQL Solution to Government Sector

* MySQL progress in a year

* Endeca CEO: We wanted IPO, but Oracle acquisition gave peace of mind

* For 451 Research clients

# Armed with fresh funding, Tidemark looks to churn up performance management waters Impact Report

# Cloudant seizes opportunity for greater involvement with CouchDB Market Development report

# Xeround details cloud database pricing, launches free option Market Development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

New CEO at Revolution. Pentaho goes big data. EMC Hadoop gets Isilon. And more.

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* Revolution Analytics Names David Rich New CEO

* Pentaho Open Sources Big Data Capabilities to Further Fuel Widespread Adoption

* EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support

* Actuate Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results

* Sumo Logic Raises $15M Series B Round for Next Generation Log Management and Analytics

* Announcing Oracle R Enterprise 1.0

* Paul Cormier Joins Hortonworks’ Board of Directors

* DataStax Launches First Complete Solution for Cassandra Development on Windows and Mac

* Latest Release of Kalido Information Engine Eliminates Data Mart Migration and Consolidation Hassles

* Karmasphere Brings More Power, Collaboration, and Faster Insights to Big Data Analytics Teams on Hadoop

* Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty

* SAP HANA – slowly moving out of hype into actual projects

* For 451 Research clients

# Actuate gets ready to go shopping in the ‘big data’ mall Acquirer IQ

# Couchbase cites enterprise adoption, clarifies distributed NoSQL database strategy Impact report

# SpagoBI illuminates 2012 roadmap, takes open source model to US, Latin America Impact report

# Customer data analysis provider nPario combines big data and smart segmentation Impact report

# Tableau details 2012 growth strategy, gets semantic for visual analytics Market development report

# EMC integrates re-branded Hadoop distribution with Isilon NAS Market development report

# Quiterian seeks funding for new customer analytics in the cloud focus Market development report

# Hortonworks refines its commercial strategy for Apache Hadoop Market development report

# Digital Reasoning pledges to automate the analysis of complex data Market development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.