Hortonworks raises $50m, previews next-generation Hadoop. And more

For 451 Research clients: Hortonworks raises $50m, previews next-generation Hadoop http://t.co/Ps5TNmca5H

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 28, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Splunk launches exploratory analytics platform for Hadoop http://t.co/d59uW67k7D

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 27, 2013

For 451 Research clients: RainStor turns attention to Hadoop security for analytic database update http://t.co/KTk2uK1EV7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Teradata launches Hadoop portfolio via Hortonworks reseller deal http://t.co/MnIkAO4pIH Analyst note.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 28, 2013

For 451 clients: ADVIZOR eyes growth in OEM business, revamps visual discovery and analysis wares http://t.co/9OODSupm7o By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

Hortonworks raises $50m from Tenaya Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, along with Benchmark, Index and Yahoo http://t.co/gKSPhWLLBS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

Rackspace launches Rackspace Big Data service powered by Hortonworks, Pentaho and Karmasphere. http://t.co/7m73fVEvzm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 28, 2013

Hortonworks announces community preview of HDP 2.0 http://t.co/MihEPdv32l and reseller agreement with NetApp. http://t.co/L6J2dFDW6t

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 27, 2013

VMware announces vSphere Big Data Extensions Beta to provision, manage, and monitor Hadoop clusters on vSphere. http://t.co/ye9Vf1b7gi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 28, 2013

WANdisco announces preview of support for Spark and Shark as an add-on to WANdisco Distro 3.6. http://t.co/WZ2TSIorS1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

WANdisco delivers S3-enabled HDFS http://t.co/N86Y2d0y5B and Non-Stop NameNode WAN Edition http://t.co/3jowZsQHgA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

Kognitio launches version 8 of the Kognitio Analytical Platform. http://t.co/EKsMSVMmDB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 28, 2013

Pentaho adds Big Data Integration layer and launches Pentaho Labs. http://t.co/433w7VpiIF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

Splunk announces beta version of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop. http://t.co/gdiD5F0eOZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

Teradata is now reselling Hortonworks Dat Platform as part of the Teradata Portfolio for Hadoop. http://t.co/M27WwXeQ0b

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

EnterpriseDB introduces RemoteDBA services for PostgreSQL. http://t.co/jQjiUmsyUR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

Couchbase has announced the general availability of Couchbase Server 2.1. http://t.co/rvC1sN1u0U

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

Zettaset embeds Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition within Zettaset Orchestrator Hadoop cluster management. http://t.co/AOyZaqHtxe

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

DataTorrent raises $8m Series A funding http://t.co/xFuaxHcuto launches Hadoop-based streaming platform. http://t.co/i75p3pFk2E

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2013

Cloudera announces high-speed Teradata Connector. http://t.co/v2u6ySZovk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 28, 2013

Revelytix announced early access availability of Loom Dataset Management for Hadoop. http://t.co/G7u7ZrSayv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 28, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Hortonworks updates Data Platfom. Wise.io launches. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Datawatch plots course for BI, ‘big data’ and ECM play bit.ly/10DWjBw By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 31, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Global IDs gets big into ‘big data’ management bit.ly/10JGsOv By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 30, 2013

Hortonworks has announced version 1.3 of the Hortonworks Data Platform, including Stinger enhancements to Hive. bit.ly/11aGJgq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 29, 2013

IBM delivers new workforce analytics services. ibm.co/1aHjbkJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 31, 2013

Splunk made a net loss of $16m on revenue up 54%to $57.2m in Q1. bit.ly/1aHhio0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 31, 2013

Wise.io launches machine learning platform bit.ly/10DWE7e and seed funding. bit.ly/10DWCML

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 31, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

WibiData and Alteryx announce funding. And more.

For 451 Research clients: YarcData discovers its place in the analytic database ecosystem bit.ly/16SsfWI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 24, 2013

For 451 clients: NeutrinoBI eyes funding as it expands horizons for visual analysis with search twist bit.ly/16Sskty By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 24, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Kognitio’s parallelization of R points to expanded analytic platform role bit.ly/13N3Q1x

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 23, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Syncsort looks to support Hadoop as the operating system for ‘big data’ bit.ly/14M3o2F By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 21, 2013

For 451 clients: BigML outlines roadmap in support of democratizing machine-learning-based analysis bit.ly/ZczK8a By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 22, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Drawn to Scale: drawn to fail bit.ly/14M3tTU Analyst note.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 21, 2013

WibiData raises $15m to expand product portfolio, develop and deploy verticalized big data apps. bit.ly/16bfPK1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 23, 2013

Alteryx raises $12m. bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/p…

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 20, 2013

Syncsort launches Spring ’13 release, including DMX-h ETL Edition and DMX-h Sort Edition for Hadoop-based ETL. prn.to/10gJGwi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 20, 2013

SiSense introduces Prism 10X, with “In-Chip Analytics”. mwne.ws/13N40Go

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 23, 2013

Workday unveils Big Data Analytics For HR and Finance, incorporating Datameer. bit.ly/16SsmSe

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 24, 2013

IBM brings DB2 with BLU Acceleration and SAP HANA to IBM SmartCloud. prn.to/13N48pf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 23, 2013

Drawn to Scale is Closing! bit.ly/18brLc8 Bradford Stephens (partially) explains why

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 20, 2013

Actian updates Hadoop On Demand Integration module for ParAccel, including support for HCatalog. bit.ly/10gJRaG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 20, 2013

Apache Hive 0.11: Stinger Phase 1 Delivered bit.ly/18brHsH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 20, 2013

Nodejitsu acquires CouchDB hosting firm Iris Couch. bit.ly/10p0HRk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 23, 2013

Splunk and Hortonworks announce strategic alliance. bit.ly/16bfwz5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 23, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Clustrix raises $16.5m Teradata gets Intelligent Memory. And more.

For 451 Research clients: QlikTech looks to get more visual with NComVA acquisition bit.ly/YvX4LH By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 9, 2013

For 451 Research clients: MapR expands its operations and platform with $30m funding round bit.ly/10k9OHw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 7, 2013

For 451 Research clients: LucidWorks refocuses on developers, partners to grow search business bit.ly/17L8Kgr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 8, 2013

Clustrix raises $16.5m in funding from Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures, and Don Listwin. prn.to/10kbqB1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 7, 2013

Teradata has introduced Teradata Intelligent Memory to improve query performance. bit.ly/18Y5aOL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 8, 2013

Splunk and Cloudera ink strategic alliance. bit.ly/10uXGDu

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 9, 2013

Cloudera announces Cloudera Developer Kit. bit.ly/146NEH1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 9, 2013

Talend releases version 5.3 of its data integration platform. bit.ly/17L8Swc

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 8, 2013

SAP has renamed SAP Visual Intelligence, for self-service BI, to SAP Lumira. bit.ly/10g45kk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 10, 2013

Hadoop Adoption Accelerates, But Not For Data Analytics by @mjasay rww.to/10mU68S

— ReadWrite (@RWW) May 10, 2013

Interesting, although highly debatable, database landscape map from Clustrix bit.ly/17L9BO2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) May 8, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Splunk adds structure. MapR raises $30m. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Splunk adds structured data integration with DB Connect bit.ly/ZPzI0f

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 19, 2013

For 451 clients: Armed with fresh VC and a new focus, FeedZai takes fraud-detection wares to US bit.ly/ZPzJkO By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 19, 2013

10gen Releases MongoDB 2.4 with Hash-based Sharding, Capped Arrays, Geo Enhancements and more bit.ly/11a4eV0

— 10gen(@10gen) March 19, 2013

MapR Technologies Closes $30 Million in New Funding bit.ly/XWqd2B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 19, 2013

F5 Networks exec named CEO of database startup @sqrrl_inc (by @kylealspach) bizjournals.com/boston/blog/st…

— The BBJ Newsroom (@BostonBizNews) March 19, 2013

Splunk delivers relational database integration with Splunk DB Connect. bit.ly/WRcP12

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 18, 2013

Drawn to Scale Announces Spire for Mongo, a distributed data platform for MongoDB. bit.ly/Zs4Gh2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 19, 2013

TIBCO Software has announced the launch of TIBCO Spotfire. mwne.ws/WRd4t7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 18, 2013

Kognitio announces massively parallel ‘R’ via external scripts. prn.to/XZXZX7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 19, 2013

Big Data Broadens Its Range on.wsj.com/Wgbek9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 14, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

SQL and Hadoop: ascloseasthis. Splunk revenue up 64%. and more.

For 451 Research clients: SQL and Hadoop: a marriage of convenience bit.ly/162RfZ9 Just what do they see in each other?

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 4, 2013

For 451 clients: Skytree reaches into front end for machine learning, prepares for Series A funding bit.ly/XJQzDi By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 5, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Kalido illuminates MDM business and product roadmap bit.ly/VgPLaq By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 1, 2013

Splunk reports FY revenue of $198.9m, up 64%. bit.ly/VgVqx2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 1, 2013

Terracotta launches BigMemory 4.0 bit.ly/Vv8TkX and In-Genius in-memory intelligence software. bit.ly/Vv8YFs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 4, 2013

Acunu has announced the availability of Acunu Analytics for Cassandra. bit.ly/162Rrrb (PDF)

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 4, 2013

SkySQL, Codership and Monty Program team up to release Galera Cluster for MariaDB. mwne.ws/YaZivl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) March 5, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

Navigating our illustrated database landscape map. And more

For 451 Research clients: An exclusive guide to navigating our illustrated database landscape map. bit.ly/13mUrfO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

For 451 clients: Orchestra lays out MDM score for 2013 as it continues to tread independent path bit.ly/VZtKtn By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2013

ScaleArc confirms $12.3m in series C Funding. prn.to/13mUxnz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

Netflix discusses details of its Hadoop Platform as a Service in the Cloud. nflx.it/13mUDvF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

DataStax announces Community Edition 1.2 mwne.ws/13mUzvH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

Splunk Gains on Speculation IBM May Consider Takeover – Bloomberg bloom.bg/ZQWdGU

— Dave Kellogg (@Kellblog) January 11, 2013

IBM’s Watson taught itself how to swear. bit.ly/13mUIzb It’ll be dating next. Via @sogrady

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

And that’s the Data Day, today.

451 perspectives on RedShift and Precog. And more

For 451 Research clients: Amazon Web Services launches Redshift data warehouse as a service bit.ly/UBltxe

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Precog embarks on a mission to bring ‘big data’ advanced analytics inside bit.ly/119kKWu By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 30, 2012

For 451 Research clients: RJMetrics taps analytics vein within online businesses, adds visual infusion bit.ly/UBlxgk By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2012

The New AWS Data Pipeline wv.ly/ToOtVq #aws #datapipeline

— Werner Vogels (@Werner) November 29, 2012

President @barackobama threatens veto to NDAA – defends @apacheaccumulo bit.ly/TuohJv

— Ely Kahn (@ElyKahn) November 30, 2012

Splunk reported a GAAP net loss of $5.5m on revenue up 67% to $52.0m in its Q3. bit.ly/119lA5D Raises guidance for FY.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 30, 2012

Basho announces Riak Cloud Storage with Multi-Datacenter Replication. bit.ly/TqSzfQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) November 30, 2012

Visualising Open Source Projects bit.ly/UBRzc8 animation showing the interactions between the people and the codebase

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 3, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Pentaho raises $23m. Exploring CAP Theorem. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Microsoft provides insight into Hadoop for Windows and Azure bit.ly/SYsCVf Analyst note.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Pentaho has raised a $23m C round led by NEA, with participation from additional existing investors. bit.ly/XScsRs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Splunk Launches Splunk Enterprise 5, including Splunk-Hadoop integration. bit.ly/XSc8lE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

New post at DBMS Musings on the CAP theorem edition of IEEE Computer with quick descriptions of 5 of the papers in itdbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/ieee-c…

— Daniel Abadi (@daniel_abadi) October 29, 2012

Actuate reports Q3 revenue of $32.2m, down 5%, with license revenue up 13% to $13.3m. bit.ly/SYtklm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Former Sybase CEO John Chen is leaving SAP. prn.to/V5q787

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Infochimps has added stream processing technologies Storm and Kafka to its managed, hosted service. bit.ly/V5oGXn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

VMware Announces VMware vFabric GemFire 7.0. mwne.ws/V5q2kT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Cirro Announces Integration Partnership with Tableau bit.ly/XSexwI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

Synergex announces KitaroDB, a native NoSQL database For Windows. prn.to/SYsUeF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 30, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

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

For 451 Research clients: Cloudera launches Impala project for real-time Hadoop analytics bit.ly/R3l1mk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Actuate snags Quiterian to plug advanced analytics and visualization hole bit.ly/OZWtOO By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: Continuing its M&A software push, Dell moves into ‘big data’ analytics via Kitenga buy bit.ly/R3l95k By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2012

For 451 Research clients: MapR delivers enhanced HBase database with M7 Edition of Hadoop bit.ly/OZWEd4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: RainStor accelerates direct sales approach following $12m funding round bit.ly/OZVRsD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Platfora exits stealth mode with self-service in-memory BI for Hadoop bit.ly/OZWJxo By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Cloudant adds search to cloud database service, targets intelligence community bit.ly/OZVWMZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: BigML revs machine-learning-based cloud service with predictive model marketplace bit.ly/OZW2nK By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 clients: Cleversafe seeks to take object storage into ‘big data’ era with Hadoop offering bit.ly/OZWbYr By @simonrob451

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Versant brings the Java Persistence API to its object database with Versant JPA bit.ly/OZW7b8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

For 451 Research clients: EMC open-sources Greenplum Chorus platform for collaborative analytics bit.ly/OZWAtQ Analyst note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2012

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.