What happened in data platforms and analytics this week will leave you speechless

For @451Research clients: @MicroFocus continues consolidation, adds @HPE software in $8.8bn transaction https://t.co/1clkegb28I By @sfjohna

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2016

For @451Research clients: NoSQL and SQL: An Object Lesson https://t.co/lFSq8NYIhA How has NoSQL fared after seven years? By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: Are @ObjectRocket cloud databases the jewel in @Rackspace's crown? https://t.co/wpEfXM4YNY By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2016

For @451Research clients: @MapR secures $50m, releases a Spark distribution, enhances cluster monitoring https://t.co/COeVMfVtb1 By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 7, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Altair_US seeks to cement BI credentials with self-service visual analysis https://t.co/XUG4IhcAPH By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2016

For @451Research clients: @CrateIO moves HQ to US to accelerate its analytic database business https://t.co/swbnk0laHM By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

For @451Research clients: Data services firm @Bitwise_Updates eyes opportunity with ETL-on-Hadoop tool https://t.co/HVvFNyVCUo By @jmscrts

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2016

For @451Research clients: @googlecloud demonstrates database commitment with GA releases https://t.co/jpf3owH3w8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 2, 2016

HPE “spin-merges” software assets to Micro Focus in $8.8bn deal, taking a 50.1% stake in the combined company. https://t.co/6nehSppCuT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2016

Zoomdata has signed a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel https://t.co/JkwAeRSW5L

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise introduces HPE Vertica 8 https://t.co/kTk4XroDzb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 1, 2016

GigaSpaces launches InsightEdge Apache Spark distribution https://t.co/2ZONII3xUy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 6, 2016

SAP launches BW/4HANA data warehouse application https://t.co/WZXHuDdlz0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

Teradata has become a global authorized reseller of SAS data management and analytics software. https://t.co/VqoWWjsk6a

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 9, 2016

MapR promotes COO Matt Mills to CEO, John Schroeder becomes executive chairman https://t.co/IpgRqYTNGj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 8, 2016

Tesora collaborates with Red Hat to deliver certified OpenStack-based Database as a Service platform https://t.co/PAQA8P3W3B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

IDERA announces GA of SQL Workload Analysis https://t.co/wSl1kiIcrg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 1, 2016

Cloudera – reportedly https://t.co/Aud1nGyXVn – asked Intel for $1 billion to build a cloud service

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 31, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

What happened in data and analytics this week will astound you

For 451 Research clients: NewSQL databases: a definitive guide http://bit.ly/2c7wJPu

For 451 Research clients: With Atlas, MongoDB jumps into hosted NoSQL DBaaS waters http://bit.ly/2c7wXq4 By Jim Curtis

For 451 Research clients: DataStax rolls graph into DSE 5.0, highlights NoSQL multi-models http://bit.ly/2bOKF2I By Jim Curtis

For 451 Research clients: Looker illuminates its analytics business and platform strategy http://bit.ly/2c7z396 By Krishna Roy

For 451 Research clients: Arcadia looks to simplify security for Hadoop analysis, lands Rackspace as reseller http://bit.ly/2c7wwvZ By Krishna Roy

For 451 Research clients: With $30m in funding, Vena looks to expand its cloud service to an enterprise platform http://bit.ly/2c7x3Oq By Krishna Roy

For 451 Research clients: Stitch emerges from RJMetrics with ETL as a service following cloud BI sale http://bit.ly/2c7wW5m

For 451 Research clients: CMC Markets sees promising self-service results with new ‘Google-like’ BI tool http://bit.ly/2c7xPuK By Jason Stamper

Tableau appointed Adam Selipsky as new CEO http://tabsoft.co/2bONxN1

Splunk reported a net loss of $86.6m on Q2 revenue up 43% to $212.8m http://splk.it/2bON1P5

Salesforce signs agreement to acquire BeyondCore http://bit.ly/2bOOZPK

Magnitude Software acquired Simba Technologies http://mwne.ws/2bONqRI

SAP is reportedly acquiring Altiscale for over $125m http://bit.ly/2bON8dE

Syncsort acquires Cogito to enhance mainframe data access http://prn.to/2c7ynRb

Galactic Exchange closes seed financing round http://bit.ly/2bOMxZw

Teradata makes Aster Analytics available on Hadoop and Teradata Aster Analytics on Amazon Web Services http://prn.to/2c7y5Kh

JSON support is generally available in Azure SQL Database http://bit.ly/2c7xVT9

Red Hat launches Red Hat Virtualization 4 http://red.ht/2bOMJb0

SnapLogic launches Summer 2016 release of its SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform http://bit.ly/2bOOmpq

AWS releases Amazon Kinesis Analytics http://bit.ly/2bOOwNd

AWS licenses SQLstream technology for Amazon Kinesis Analytics service http://bit.ly/2c7CZaa

Percona delivers open source in-Memory storage engine for Percona Server for MongoDB http://bit.ly/2bOPIjH

Riversand launches MDMCenter v7.8 http://bit.ly/2c7zDUl

WANdisco announces the release of WANdisco Fusion 2.9 http://bit.ly/2bOOapU

And that’s the data day, today.

Thoma Bravo acquires Qlik. OpenText acquires Recommind. And more.

For @451Research clients: Visual analysis veteran @Qlik is taken private by Thoma Bravo for $3bn https://t.co/gzHISYEK8x By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 3, 2016

For @451Research clients: @OpenText gets into e-discovery with acquisition of @Recommind https://t.co/YvRo1Lnb7W By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 3, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SAPAnalytics refreshes cloud analytics and Roambi amid @BusinessObjects branding revival https://t.co/IpXQB2ZsH4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 2, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SASsoftware introduces Viya, begins transition to new cloudy architecture https://t.co/LWMxqAh1Yy By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 1, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SnapLogic adds support for Kafka and HDInsight to Elastic Integration Platform https://t.co/VQA3BCN6ya

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 3, 2016

For @451Research clients: @PredixionSW foresees analytics RIOT at the edge of the network https://t.co/8CUNOZEfow

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 1, 2016

Qlik to be acquired by Thoma Bravo for $30.50 per share (approx $3bn) https://t.co/zJVWCCpkd6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 2, 2016

OpenText signs definitive agreement to acquire Recommind for approximately $163m https://t.co/x14ZvGw9Od

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 2, 2016

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is now generally available. https://t.co/HT8RZlNnmc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 1, 2016

Cisco and IBM partner to bring Watson analytics to edge devices https://t.co/E4KnHbwnyb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 2, 2016

AWS adds Apache Tez and Apache Phoenix to Amazon EMR with 4.7.0 https://t.co/TwRVuguP1G

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 3, 2016

Wipro open sources Big Data Ready Enterprise (BDRE) – a unified framework for a Hadoop implementation https://t.co/pvS2wdbcs4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 2, 2016

Galactic Exchange delivers container powered on-premise managed service for deploying Hadoop/Spark https://t.co/I6Z5mAfA7N

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 31, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Funding for ThoughtSpot and AtScale. And more.

For @451Research clients: With Modules, @RedisLabs turns Redis into a multi-model database https://t.co/fcnID044dE By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 18, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Dell aims to provide one-stop shop for advanced analytics with @Statistica https://t.co/Px9Al9HiY3 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 20, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Teradata names new CEO, delivers hybrid cloud and IntelliFlex platform https://t.co/dfEuwUAhRN By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 16, 2016

For @451Research clients: MongoLab becomes @mLab, readies products to move beyond MongoDB hosting https://t.co/8bHojOj1sb By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 20, 2016

For @451Research clients: @CamSemantics positions Anzo as a platform for multi-structured data lakes https://t.co/e3p2KiVJ3D

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 18, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Sinequa eyes series B, morphs for cognitive search and analytics play https://t.co/60G8hvfBv2 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 20, 2016

For @451Research clients: @tesoracorp highlights the value of Trove DBaaS, seeks @OpenStack adoption maturity https://t.co/t1ttq3J8io

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 18, 2016

ThoughtSpot announces $50m series C led by General Catalyst Partners https://t.co/qM8MYoMo7l

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 19, 2016

AtScale raises $11m series B funding round led by Comcast Ventures. https://t.co/E9TN6UnUS7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 16, 2016

SAP adds graph data processing with latest release of SAP HANA https://t.co/2L6tHbQkI7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 18, 2016

SAP launches SAP BusinessObjects Cloud and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise. https://t.co/a2r9TARy6e

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 18, 2016

SAP and Microsoft plan to deliver support for SAP HANA on Microsoft Azure. https://t.co/FVtmlwXFia

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2016

TIBCO adds data wrangling and preparation capabilities to Spotfire 2016. https://t.co/zVjktgIQW8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 19, 2016

TIBCO announces Project Flogo, lightweight integration software, and TIBCO Graph Database https://t.co/SFtk0poo54

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 18, 2016

SnapLogic adds support for Kafka, HDInsight, and Google Cloud Storage to the Spring 2016 release of SnapLogic EIP. https://t.co/if5xo6HHHF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2016

Birst updates its embedded analytics capabilities. https://t.co/iTxdfOY9yt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2016

Magnitude Software acquires data warehouse enablement vendor Datalytics Technologies. https://t.co/gtXGsWeuqw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 17, 2016

Heroku announces early access to Heroku Kafka. https://t.co/98qzyL2p7Z

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 19, 2016

AgilData launches AgilData Scalable Cluster for MySQL. https://t.co/F9ycbNA8d2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 19, 2016

Just noticed VMware announced the End of Availability of VMware Continuent, effective May 4, 2016. https://t.co/en6Hj38fCR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 18, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

MemSQL raises $36m series C. And more

For @451Research clients: Release 16 casts @OpenText's product line into integrated information management suites https://t.co/XO8AnfzbSr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2016

For @451Research clients: @StreamSets focuses on quality of data ingestion with new Data Collector https://t.co/hnBlJ0LOZ4 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 21, 2016

For @451Research clients: @dataiku sets out strategy to provide one-stop shop for data science https://t.co/pOOXaaAFZH By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2016

For @451Research clients: @citusdata open-sources its distributed PostgreSQL analytics database https://t.co/Id1T6hXYuf By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Attivio raises last funding before profitability https://t.co/RxkMsiE4No By @nickpatience

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 21, 2016

For @451Research clients: @ODPiOrg publishes first Hadoop specification https://t.co/Oz7yoTJ8cr By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Wipro aims its new Data Discovery Platform at digital transformation https://t.co/ghfXlrIHFR By @drkatyring

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2016

MemSQL raises $36m in series C funding round https://t.co/B0nbk7M8m3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 21, 2016

Pivotal generated total revenue of $83m in Q1, up 56% from $54m in Q1 2015 https://t.co/hX95Bz6A5m (pdf)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2016

SAS launches Viya analytics and visualization architecture https://t.co/5FR1q3Peh9, SAS Analytics for IoT https://t.co/esAV1pkeXF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2016

Teradata updates MPP database architecture with Teradata IntelliFlex, amid hybrid cloud announcements. https://t.co/a6higVNePn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 18, 2016

Microsoft has announced the general availability of the integration between Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI. https://t.co/E2cFxz30Xg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 22, 2016

Ontotext releases GraphDB 7 with full support for RDF 1.1 https://t.co/EEEuY8YKpY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2016

Pivotal Greenplum can now query data in AWS S3 as an external table https://t.co/fHab1ewx81

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 21, 2016

Percona announces Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2 https://t.co/LlDY5ESnGq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 20, 2016

Interesting combo: Cisco selects MapR’s Converged Data Platform as basis for SAP HANA appliance. https://t.co/XobbmpN4fg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 19, 2016

Talend Big Data Integration now supports Cloudera Navigator. https://t.co/4OLUT98zBP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 21, 2016

Fuzzy Logix bring in-database analytics to Teradata Aster Analytics https://t.co/ZR9ssQR7N0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) April 19, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Funding for Couchbase, Striim and Crate. And more

For @451Research clients: @UNIFiSoftware outlines catalog-based approach to data integration https://t.co/E61uto1r0j

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 17, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Databricks spins up Community Edition as Spark 2.0 waits in the wings https://t.co/m4fJfH1Oiq By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 17, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Tamr_Inc expands procurement focus for catalog-based data preparation platform https://t.co/XeBolOjtdn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 18, 2016

For @451Research clients: @MarkLogic benefits from revamped pricing and packaging, readies version 9 https://t.co/t5LujNuxk7 By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2016

For @451research clients: @Elastic announces rebranding and synchronization of products at ElasticON https://t.co/237Pf0CELn By @dberkholz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 18, 2016

For @451Research clients: @WavefrontHQ cloud service for operational analytics emerges from stealth https://t.co/mNouRDsTZM By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2016

For @451Research clients: Under new ownership, @Infogix looks to expand Enterprise Data Analysis Platform adoption https://t.co/aIUb26YpMp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2016

For @451Research clients: @GridGain doubles in-memory data fabric sales following open source shift https://t.co/uzTdYNzwCI By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2016

For @451Research clients @Percona continues @Oracle rivalry with @MySQL-compatible database update https://t.co/JdbhAzfdpi By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2016

Couchbase has raised a $30m series F round of funding led by Sorenson Capital https://t.co/GLK6ikVb4Z

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2016

Striim expands series B funding to $30m with additional $10m from Atlantic Bridge Capital https://t.co/d4IwMJuTc2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2016

Crate Technology has raised $4m funding led by Dawn Capital and also involving Solomon Hykes, creator of Docker https://t.co/Z1adujWdJu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2016

AWS says over 1000 databases have been migrated to the cloud using AWS Database Migration Service since January 1 https://t.co/4rosqwpQFL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2016

SAP has announced the general availability of its HANA Vora in-memory query engine for Hadoop/Spark https://t.co/SuWw7L5snv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2016

MicroStrategy has launched MicroStrategy 10.3 with enhanced data discovery and visualization. https://t.co/MI2y4vRv2r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2016

Cambridge Semantics launches Anzo Graph Query Engine and Anzo Smart Data Manager as stand-alone products https://t.co/z5hwMzCFfj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2016

Altiscale launches Altiscale Insight Cloud – self-service analytics based on Hadoop and Spark. https://t.co/rAjILcSLk5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 15, 2016

Datameer introduces Datameer Cloud analytics-as-a-service, running on Microsoft’s Azure HDInsight https://t.co/YoeFiIZPzX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 17, 2016

With version 3.0 Oracle Big SQL now supports Cloudera CDH (BDA and non-BDA), Hortonworks HDP and Oracle Database 12c https://t.co/HFFc5grzIl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 18, 2016

Talent updates Integration Cloud with improved provisioning of AWS EMR and Redshift and native Spark processing. https://t.co/JmaXZeIGWo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2016

Infogix adds support for Hadoop, Cassandra and MongoDB to Enterprise Data Analysis Platform. https://t.co/nHHd0a9Iep

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2016

Diyotta Inc introduces Modern Data Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering. https://t.co/DHiz6v86Zq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 16, 2016

IBM to resell Datawatch Monarch, self-service data preparation for IBM Watson Analytics and IBM Cognos Analytics. https://t.co/zxFexpboIg

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

ASF launches Apache Arrow. And more

For @451Research clients: Apache Arrow promises common in-memory data layer for Hadoop ecoystem https://t.co/Gp3YztzuZT By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: Buoyed by early data-inventory adoption, @waterlinedata raises $16m series B https://t.co/jg3pwgxzfS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: @SAP expands mobile access to real-time analytics with @Roambi acquisition https://t.co/o8Ft9zTB0a By @rcastanonm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Sisense bags $50m series D, adopts analytics for complex data focus https://t.co/Efh8uXEk45 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 15, 2016

For @451Research clients: @TimeXtender outlines ambitious growth plans for data-warehouse automation https://t.co/13lrmKFvVX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2016

For @451Research clients: @DeepInfoSci launches its own MySQL-compliant database https://t.co/SmrygtZACB By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 15, 2016

For @451Research clients: @Alation spreads its wings, citing customer momentum for search-based Data Catalog https://t.co/4KUlfmZnP0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2016

Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Arrow as a Top-Level Project for columnar in-memory analytics https://t.co/EKmkqDXRNY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2016

Introducing Apache Arrow: Columnar In-Memory Analytics https://t.co/UJbXAR9vLL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2016

Zoomdata has raised a $25m series C round led by Goldman Sachs and Comcast Ventures https://t.co/a4ogABdHlh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2016

GridGain raises $15m series B financing led by Sberbank and MoneyTime Ventures https://t.co/EDhMYmzheK

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2016

Koverse announces strategic investment from Credit Suisse Asset Management https://t.co/PFKwxNmX0p

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2016

SAP has acquired Roambi to boost its cloud and mobile analytics strategy. https://t.co/LrcxVpV7sa

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2016

Databricks announces the beta of Databricks Community Edition, a free version of its cloud-based Spark platform. https://t.co/Fh40dFrl24

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2016

TIBCO delivers version 6.2 of its Jaspersoft embedded analytics and reporting software. https://t.co/5WQcbJe3Ak

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2016

IBM has announced Quarks for embedding streaming analytics onto IoT devices. https://t.co/lyokFZiWjJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2016

SnapLogic, has introduced the Winter 2016 release of its SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform. https://t.co/YT07KAOhrM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2016

Glassbeam introduces Glassbeam Studio and Glassbeam Edge for data transformation and edge analytics. https://t.co/slJr0z5PfH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

New funding for Anaplan and Looker. And more

For @451Research clients: The drivers and challenges of database as a service #dbaas https://t.co/9wzIM0c2aI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2016

For @451Research clients: @datoinc details machine-learning mission to drive intelligent applications https://t.co/4HFQVWqd1S

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: @IBM illuminates @IBMSPSS advanced analytics portfolio https://t.co/z55I42tErS By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

For @451Research research clients: @splicemachine augments Hadoop-based RDBMS with Spark https://t.co/gyG2OIjUPF By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2016

For @451Research clients: @perfectpriceinc eyes retail growth with machine-learning SaaS play https://t.co/N1ZK9PzWha By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2016

Anaplan raises $90m led by Premji Invest with Founders Circle Capital, Harmony Partners, and existing investors https://t.co/GbCvTxbVeM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

Looker secures $48m series C funding from Kleiner Perkins https://t.co/vTbRA89Axy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

Cambridge Semantics acquires SPARQL City’s IP, hires former executives to expand graph-based analytics platform https://t.co/y8iJDSM1YV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

Informatica has appointed Anil Chakravarthy as its permanent CEO https://t.co/8o9xyD0rkw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2016

Databricks promotes vice president of engineering and product, Ali Ghodsi, to CEO https://t.co/LrAxqaNfPd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2016

SAP Announces Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results https://t.co/KM2uybTXuz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 12, 2016

Microsoft launches Microsoft R Server, reiterates its support for the open source R project https://t.co/FSgiuH4C51

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2016

And that’s the data day, today.

Toward a converged data platform, and more.

For @451Research clients: Toward a converged data platform, part one (of three) https://t.co/UdxfP0x2xM https://t.co/nusNYzOIiQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 4, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Cloudera digs into SQL, bundles optimizer service in Enterprise 5.5 https://t.co/zeuttibmJ3 By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 9, 2015

For @451Research clients: @preveroAG unveils cloud strategy as it seeks to expand its BI horizons https://t.co/bYeNd10DS5 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 24, 2015

For @451Research clients: @SlamData preps first commercial fruit of MongoDB analytics project https://t.co/svFGh7fiy2 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2015

For @451Research clients: @LeanXcale launches hybrid database based on open source underpinnings https://t.co/XhF13f5eI5 By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 24, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MariaDB looks to cloud databases with Microsoft, AWS https://t.co/FEuYoeJc6T By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Tempo_IQ launches 4th gen of its IoT data mgmt suite https://t.co/R9TOvAV110 By @xianrenaud and @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 2, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MAANASearch seeks more funding to advance its big-data search engine https://t.co/41htsPuPjJ By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 1, 2015

Platfora raises $30m in growth-stage financing https://t.co/ByRSJvUIZs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

SAP launches support package stack 11 (SPS 11) for the SAP HANA platform. https://t.co/ZwFyRqkthq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

Confluent launches Confluent Platform 2.0, based on an updated Apache Kafka 0.9 core. https://t.co/66yrlxxevJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

MapR announces MapR Streams, a Kafka-compatible publish-subscribe event streaming system https://t.co/4CrOJPzBcD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

Microsoft retires Azure Managed Cache and In-Role Cache in favour of Azure Redis Cache https://t.co/UQJeNYD8L4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2015

MongoDB’s BI Connector is, it would appear, actually PostgreSQL and the Postgres FDW. https://t.co/NPlc12IypX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 9, 2015

Esgyn has released EsgynDB 2.0, built on Apache Trafodion, bringing multi-data center transaction support to Hadoop https://t.co/OBHLgdFIBE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Kylin as a Top-Level Project https://t.co/Ek77CzpEOn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 8, 2015

“I think… we’ll keep calling the ecosystem Hadoop after Hadoop is no longer the core component of it.” Doug Cutting https://t.co/5VqFuWwwR4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 2, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.

Cloudera herds Impala and Kudu to the ASF. And more

For @451Research clients: @cloudera herds Impala and Kudu to Apache Software Foundation https://t.co/uWO2iD1WYi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 17, 2015

For @451Research clients: @H2Oai raises $20m series B to capitalize on rapid open source machine-learning growth https://t.co/NM6wheahS4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 13, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Google uses open source to encourage TensorFlow take-up for deep-learning https://t.co/GRRBqIR995 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2015

For @451Research clients: @SAP adds spark to Spark with HANA Vora in-memory query engine https://t.co/3vLa1Peg2f By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 23, 2015

For @451Research clients: Cloud or on-premises? @OracleDatabase says both, serves up hybrid strategy https://t.co/kC4qClHzcx By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2015

For @451research clients: @Pivotal (almost) completes open source data products makeover with @Greenplum Database https://t.co/8CAS1oyNJE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Teradata: Enabling analytics in all the right places https://t.co/2AnEAKG2VP By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 16, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Oracle doubles down on @MySQL investment with 5.7 release https://t.co/oZd9mFyLpO By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 17, 2015

For @451Research clients: @InsightSquared finds 50 ways to connect SMBs with new data sources https://t.co/M71jWzSooP By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 16, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Informatica completes v10 release with Big Data Management launch https://t.co/qo5oKEi7aI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2015

For @451Research clients: @DundasData focuses on expanded market opportunity with BI platform play https://t.co/Nnqxd59nqB By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2015

For @451Research clients: @venasolutions courts Excel devotees with perf management cloud service https://t.co/JdLqa9YJ0Y By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 13, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Cloud9Charts emerges with reporting and visualization service https://t.co/wP9l5Jnml2 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 17, 2015

Splunk reports net loss of $73m on Q3 revenue up 50% to $174.4m https://t.co/qXeDDHoHoh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 20, 2015

Cloudera proposes to donate Impala and Kudu to The Apache Software Foundation https://t.co/6o0GySa1Pq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 17, 2015

Fidelity has reportedly written down its investment in MongoDB by 54% https://t.co/441YaMTSIz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 16, 2015

Godfrey Sullivan retires as Splunk CEO, succeeded by Doug Merritt https://t.co/bVj1KykNqT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 20, 2015

Cloudera adds optimization guidance to latest version of Cloudera Enterprise with Cloudera Navigator Optimizer https://t.co/dK5SoitR1y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 19, 2015

Informatica launches Informatica Big Data Management combining integration, data quality, governance, and security https://t.co/zydZWUo8Px

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2015

The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Cassandra v3.0 https://t.co/pVttFV0V9H

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2015

Glassbeam updates machine data analytics platform to version 4.8 https://t.co/vVCyg3s9Ph

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2015

Tesora Database as a Service adds MySQL Enterprise, enhances support for Oracle 12c https://t.co/9xJOp0i1Qj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 11, 2015

Podium Data launches Podium 2.0 data lake management platform https://t.co/G2PpuMPnC8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 10, 2015

Splice Machine announces version 2.0 of its RDBMS, powered by Hadoop and Spark https://t.co/LmHUnj8LFO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 17, 2015

WANdisco updates Fusion Platform for active-active Hadoop replication and continuous availability https://t.co/z9MqbItigO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 19, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.