The Data Day, Two days: September 27/28 2012

Quantcast launches HDFS alternative. Glassbeam eyes funding. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: August 31 2012

MongoDB. Informatica. Splunk. Stewart Downing. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: August 27/28 2012

Citrusleaf. Aerospike. AlchemyDB. Sqrrl. Percolator. Dremel. Pregel. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Forthcoming Webinar: Real World Success from Big Data

The initial focus of ‘big data’ has been about its increasing volume, velocity and variety — the “three Vs” — with little mention of real world application. Now is the time to get down to business.

On Wednesday, May 30, at 9am PT I’ll be taking part in a webinar with Splunk to discuss real world successes with ‘big data’.

451 Research believes that in order to deliver value from ‘big data’, businesses need to look beyond the nature of the data and re-assess the technologies, processes and policies they use to engage with that data.

I will outline 451 Research’s ‘total data’ concept for delivering business value from ‘big data’, providing examples of how companies are seeking agile new data management technologies, business strategies and analytical approaches to turn the “three Vs” of data into actionable operational intelligence.

I’ll be joined by Sanjay Mehta, Vice President of Product Marketing at Splunk, which was founded specifically to focus on the opportunity of effectively getting value from massive and ever changing amounts of machine-generated data, one of the fastest growing and most complex segments of ‘big data’.

Sanjay will share big data achievements from three Splunk customers, Groupon, Intuit and CenturyLink. Using Splunk, these companies are turning massive volumes of unstructured and semi-structured machine data into powerful insights.

Register here.

The Data Day, Today: Apr 25 2012

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

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* 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.

The Data Day, Today: Apr 19 2012

Splunk goes public. SkySQL and Connotate raise funding. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* 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.

The Data Day, Today: Jan 24 2012

Thoughts on Splunk’s IPO and DynamoDB. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* Thoughts on the Splunk IPO and S-1 By Dave Kellogg.

* Thoughts on SimpleDB, DynamoDB and Cassandra By Adrian Cockcroft.

* Recommind’s Revenue Leaps 95% in Record-Setting 2011 Predictable.

* Hewlett-Packard Expands to Cambridge via Vertica’s “Big Data” Center Moving.

* Announcing SkySQL Enterprise HA for the MariaDB & MySQL databases

* Membase Server is Now Couchbase Server But not *the* Couchbase Server.

* Cloudera Teams With O’Reilly Media to Merge Hadoop World and Strata Conferences

* Survey results: How businesses are adopting and dealing with data 100 Strata Online Conference attendees.

* Big data market survey: Hadoop solutions

* LinkedIn released SenseiDB, an open source distributed, realtime, semi-structured database.

* For 451 Research clients

# VMware: not your father’s database company Impact Report

# Sparsity Technologies draws up plans for graph database adoption Impact Report

# Amazon launches DynamoDB, an auto-configuring database as a service Market Development report

# NuoDB targets Q2 release for elastic relational database Market Development report

# ADVIZOR illuminates growth strategy, roadmap in data discovery and analysis Market Development report

# Birst adds own analytic engine for BI, OEM agreement with ParAccel Market Development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: RentAGrandma.com Recruiting Wonderful Grandmas

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Jan 13 2012

Splunk files for IPO. Oracle updates its price list. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* Splunk Inc. Files Registration Statement for an Initial Public Offering And here it is.

* Oracle updated its Engineered System price list.

* Comparing Hadoop Appliances Great post from Pythian’s Gwen Shapira.

* What is big data? Edd Dumbill provides an introduction to the big data landscape.

* Why Couchbase? Damien Katz clarifies the reasons behind his preference for Couchbase over Apache CouchDB.

* Jaspersoft First to Develop Business Intelligence for Platform-as-a-Service BI suite now available with Red Hat OpenShift.

* Birst and ParAccel Partner to Deliver Scalable and Agile Big Data Analytics in the Cloud. Leverage.

* Recommind Names 451 Research Cofounder Nick Patience Director of Product Marketing and Strategy Our loss is Recommind’s gain.

* Oracle Unveils Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g Release 2 Performance and scalability improvements.

* Walkie Talkie App Voxer Soars Past a Billion Operations per Day powered by Basho Riak 10-4 good buddy.

* ISYS Search to Provide Enhanced Text Data Extraction Capabilities for New Generation of SAP Solutions OEM deal.

* Using SQLFire as a read-only cache for MySQL. VMware explains why and how.

* Announcing MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.7.0 Self-explanatory.

* Tableau Software Doubles Sales in 2011, Announces Massive Growth in Customer Roster Worldwide Customer base up by 40 percent in 2011.

* VoltDB Completes 2011 With Significant Market Growth and Company Expansion Including growth in new customer accounts of more than 300%.

* Clarabridge Wins Record Number of New Clients in 2011 More than 60 new Clarabridge Enterprise customers and more than 700 new Clarabridge Professional customers.

* For 451 Research clients

# Oracle selects Cloudera for Hadoop-based Big Data Appliance Market development report

# Microsoft may offer ‘big security data’ for free Analyst note

# Zimory considering virtual independence for cloud database business Market development report

# Jitterbit sheds light on growth strategy, integration business under new CEO Market development report

# SnapLogic snaps into the enterprise, shifts gaze away from midmarket integration Market development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: My Best Friend’s Hair Launches Nationwide Website to Help You Find the Perfect Hairstylist

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Jan 10 2012

Oracle OEMs Cloudera. The future of Apache CouchDB. And more.

An occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* Oracle announced the general availability of Big Data Appliance, and an OEM agreement with Cloudera for CDH and Cloudera Manager.

* The Future of Apache CouchDB Cloudant confirms intention to integrate the core capabilities of BigCouch into Apache CouchDB.

* Reinforcing Couchbase’s Commitment to Open Source and CouchDB Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold attempts to clear up any confusion.

* Hortonworks Appoints Shaun Connolly to Vice President of Corporate Strategy Former vice president of product strategy at VMware.

* Splunk even more data with 4.3 Introducing the latest Splunk release.

* Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster (alpha release) Based on Galera.

* Bringing Value of Big Data to Business: SAP’s Integrated Strategy Forbes interview with with Sanjay Poonen, President and corporate officer of SAP Global Solutions.

* New Release of Oracle Database Firewall Extends Support to MySQL and Enhances Reporting Capabilities Self-explanatory.

* Big data and the disruption curve “Many efforts are being funded by business units and not the IT department and money is increasingly being diverted from large enterprise vendors.”

* Get your SQL Server database ready for SQL Azure Microsoft “codename” SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment.

* An update on Apache Hadoop 1.0 Cloudera’s Charles Zedlewski helpfully explains Apache Hadoop branch numbering.

* Xeround and the CAP Theorem So where does Xeround fit in the CAP Theorem?

* Can Yahoo’s new CEO Thompson harness big data, analytics? Larry Dignan thinks Scott Thompson might just be the right guy for the job.

* US Companies Face Big Hurdles in ‘Big Data’ Use “21% of respondents were unsure how to best define Big Data”

* Schedule Your Agenda for 2012 NoSQL Events Alex Popescu updates his list of the year’s key NoSQL events.

* DataStax take Apache Cassandra Mainstream in 2011; Poised for Growth and Innovation in 2012 The usual momentum round-up from DataStax.

* Objectivity claimed significant growth in adoption of its graph database, InfiniteGraph and flagship object database, Objectivity/DB.

* Cloudera Connector for Teradata 1.0.0 Self-explanatory.

* For 451 Research clients

# SAS delivers in-memory analytics for Teradata and Greenplum Market Development report

# With $84m in funding, Opera sets out predictive-analytics plans Market Development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: First Dagger Fencing Competition in the World Scheduled for January 14, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, today: Jan 5 2012

Apache Hadoop 1.0. The future of CouchDB (or Couchbase anyway). And more.

Welcome to the first in an occasional series of data-related news, views and links posts on Too Much Information. You can also follow the series @thedataday.

* The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hadoop v1.0 Self-explanatory.

* The Future of CouchDB Apache CouchDB creator Damien Katz explains why he is focusing his attention on Couchbase Server.

* Understanding Microsoft’s big-picture plans for Hadoop and Project Isotope Mary Jo Foley parses Alexander Stojanovic’s presentation.

* MongoDB Extends Leadership in NoSQL 10gen claims more than 400 commercial customers.

* 1010data’s Unique Big Data Analytics Platform Sees Stunning Growth in 2011 1010data runs the numbers on its adoption in 2011.

* TouchDB 1.0 is out TouchDB is a lightweight CouchDB-compatible database engine suitable for embedding into mobile apps.

* Data Scientist = Rock Star, Really? Virginia Backaitis is sceptical.

* Swimming with Dolphins Splunk’s connector for MySQL.

* What the Sumerians can teach us about data Pete Warden finds data inspiration at the British Museum.

* How To (Not) Get Smart About Big Data Wim Rampen on the importance of filtering noise.

* For 451 Research clients

# Total Data: exploratory analytic platforms Spotlight report

# Apache Hadoop reaches version 1.0, with more to come Analyst note

# Acunu hones focus on ‘big data’ platform for operational analytics Market development report

# Jaspersoft gets big into ‘big data,’ illuminates BI business momentum Market development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: “Bella” Becomes Most Popular Name for Both Dogs and Cats

And that’s the Data Day, today.