Open Data Platform launched. And more.

For @451Research clients: @Hortonworks, @IBM, @Pivotal et al. launch #OpenDataPlatform Hadoop industry association http://t.co/0vGDFqIGZh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MapR outlines wider vision, co-launches Myriad project to unite Hadoop, Mesos and Docker http://t.co/50Ex4KZgcY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Tamr_Inc launches vertical strategy for self-service data preparation http://t.co/I8Xb7r9dwX By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

For @451Research clients: @MemSQL connects with Apache Spark for real-time in-memory analytics http://t.co/1zEqeI5aNf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 16, 2015

Hortonworks, Pivotal, IBM (and others) form Open Data Platform industry association for Hadoop http://t.co/2hxqmwKqoi

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Cloudera explains why it has not joined the Open Data Platform. http://t.co/Wr2BFPK6dT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Pivotal will open source HAWQ, Greenplum and GemFire http://t.co/e8UkzIaT29 forms strategic alliance with Hortonworks http://t.co/K5Z3uIQP9k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Cloudera claims 525 subscription customers and more than $100m revenue in fiscal 2015 http://t.co/tGzrkZ9aRl

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Oracle updates big data offerings including Oracle Big Data Discovery and Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data http://t.co/zJPLd1R8pD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

RapidMiner has raised $15m series B funding led by Ascent Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners. http://t.co/JFyZgeUe6o

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Sqrrl raises $7m series B, launches Sqrrl Enterprise 2.0 linked data analysis platform (based on Apache Accumulo) http://t.co/SqADIxApE6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

BlueTalon has announced its data access and security offering for Hadoop along with $5m in funding. http://t.co/RR9ZMKnyRT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Microsoft offers a preview of Azure HDInsight running on Linux, amongst other things http://t.co/S4HqsGeSzh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

MapR updates Hadoop distribution with cross-datacenter replication for MapR-DB http://t.co/yfTFrBS4fJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

IBM updates BigInsights for Apache Hadoop http://t.co/tejPcHGRfz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

RapidMiner launches self-service advanced analytics for Hadoop http://t.co/N6G2lSnqzG

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

HP launches Haven Predictive Analytics, based on Distributed R http://t.co/jGMuYrh59r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Tamr updates data unification platform http://t.co/VaAIhiEGKm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

Altiscale adds Spark http://t.co/RE9b79h5DE Kerberos authentication http://t.co/k0FqgxoxNK to the Altiscale Data Cloud

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Qubole adds Apache Spark to its Qubole Data Service. http://t.co/GkRsx7oLzX

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Tableau Software has announced support for Apache Spark via a direct connector for Spark SQL. http://t.co/H6oXVuMY0k

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2015

FICO launches Big Data Analyser (based on Karmasphere) http://t.co/B1payHzL9h Data Management Integration Platform http://t.co/FY3UTxHhEM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Qlik partners with JethroData for interactive SQL-on-Hadoop http://t.co/touQWlX2Hj

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

DataRPM delivers version 8.0 of its smart machine insights software. http://t.co/EAXZpACPUz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Cloudera and Deloitte announce strategic alliance http://t.co/f6zYd4SgVN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2015

Couchbase and Hortonworks partner to deliver integration via Storm, Kafka and Sqoop http://t.co/K1swVtZ9Ju

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

Centrify delivers Hadoop-Active Directory integration with Centrify Server Suite 2015. http://t.co/MnVHS3XQaL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

GridGain launches version 7.0 of its In-Memory Data Fabric Enterprise Edition built on Apache Ignite. http://t.co/ZF1RlWPl4A

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

Cloudwick launches managed services for Hortonworks http://t.co/tm7tGN1vjl Cloudera http://t.co/xBf0SeqxR5 DataStax http://t.co/p726sukNWD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2015

Tesora enables the provisioning of Oracle Database in OpenStack via Trove. http://t.co/agzSxpObHq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.

Hadoop and Teradata go to the cloud. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Savvis offers new Hadoop-based big-data services http://t.co/Vhyd2VU99Z

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

For 451 clients: Glassbeam unveils SaaS analysis stack for the Internet of Things, bags seed money http://t.co/3hjbCH81LM By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 22, 2013

For 451 clients: Automated Insights heads into narrative-led analytic services for the enterprise http://t.co/lneDn0Qaff By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Acunu focuses on self-service analytics for streaming and historical data http://t.co/F19yAZYjfG By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 24, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Percona aims to match Oracle MySQL with Percona Server 5.6 http://t.co/DPQbC4iryh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

For 451 Research clients: ParStream raises $8m series B to fuel real-time analytic database growth http://t.co/B7vBqdKzJ4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 22, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Hazelcast steps up its open source in-memory data grid ambitions with series A funding http://t.co/noJ1hRxuud

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 24, 2013

For 451 Research clients: ScaleArc drives toward expanded market for database traffic management software http://t.co/3sdmj0UyBw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2013

For 451 clients: Orchestra expands into MDM-related terrain as it plays to a bigger US audience http://t.co/Ns610DejP2 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

SAP claims Q3 HANA revenue of €149 million, and over HANA 2,100 customers. http://t.co/nXB2As5vhh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

Informatica reports Q3 net income of $10.4m, on revenue up 24% to $235.4m. http://t.co/JcxJZEpZdd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2013

Software AG reports Q3 net income of €31.1m on revenue down 7% to €238.5m http://t.co/mxLuQ2WOfE Includes €10m+ from 'big data' products

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2013

QlikTech reports Q3 net income of $3.0m on revenue up 21% to $104.1m. http://t.co/cMwloPZsSt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2013

Attunity reports Q3 net income of $0.7m on revenue up 11% to $6.6m. http://t.co/ogYIvFxkty

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2013

Intel Capital leads $20m investment in SkySQL to grow MariaDB. http://t.co/2kywf3iJDW

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

CoolaData closes $7.5m series A round. http://t.co/7X8SGmTFxw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 22, 2013

Sqrrl Data closes $5.2m series A round, releases version 1.2 of Sqrrl Enterprise. http://t.co/hPwIMmlQd2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

Nutonian raises $4M to 'uncover truth from chaos' in big data http://t.co/rhPKfAFMB5

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 now generally available. http://t.co/6Wdymi6u6D

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

Pivotal launches Pivotal HD 1.1 and Pivotal GemFire XD http://t.co/YK2715ezJb Pivotal Data Dispatch http://t.co/TZaL8WkLxH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

Savvis introduces Big Data Solutions – based on managed services for Cloudera and MapR. http://t.co/uiOm6zMM4U

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 22, 2013

Virtustream launches HANA-Hadoop Managed Service based on SAP HANA and Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop. http://t.co/FxlR27l1Tn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

Teradata introduces Teradata Cloud including Teradata Database, Aster Discovery Platform and Hadoop as a Service. http://t.co/gvMqCnD7Zk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

Teradata will add JSON support to Teradata Database during the second quarter of 2014, targeting Internet of Things. http://t.co/pvih4HuSXB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

Teradata introduces Data Warehouse Appliance 2750 http://t.co/CBQuHhvIpu and Teradata Extreme Data Platform 1700. http://t.co/RMSUUi3N3L

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

Teradata introduces new Teradata Data Stream Architecture for backup and recovery. http://t.co/9gCUtGgjQm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 22, 2013

Glassbeam has launched Glassbeam SCALAR, a cloud-based platform for machine data analytics. http://t.co/6GJSRry7IN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

Platfora delivers Platfora Big Data Analytics Platform 3.0, including event-stream analytics. http://t.co/TfjJajfB6y

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

SAP unveils service pack 7 for SAP HANA http://t.co/ymTj3acLyd strategic partnership with SAS. http://t.co/YCUe37VcXv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 22, 2013

Capgemini forms global Hadoop partnership with Cloudera. http://t.co/HIZ9HgfRJJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 25, 2013

Basho and Seagate partner on Riak-based scale-out cloud storage. http://t.co/r1C9hUdi3C

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 22, 2013

WhereScape and Teradata sign global reseller agreement. http://t.co/sXprtI3J0z

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

Facebook explains how it scale MySQL with MySQL Pool Scanner. http://t.co/h1hs05CrDs

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 24, 2013

Splice Machine seeks evaluators for Hadoop-based transactional SQL database. http://t.co/Vg4yZOSy6e

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 23, 2013

Distributed Caching is Dead – Long Live… http://t.co/Q2oHSweAfb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 21, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.

A bumper round-up of the past 14 days’ data-related news

For 451 Research clients: Sqrrl Data launches platform for developing secure 'big data' apps http://t.co/s2o9caqnmC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Progress suddenly sells its flagship Apama CEP platform to Software AG http://t.co/4qBVaYeiN8 By @CarlLehmann1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Datawatch buys Panopticon to shore up 'big data' play http://t.co/jme7Y77o5V By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

For 451 clients: 28msec emerges from stealth to enable real-time querying of any data source http://t.co/M9ZRrJwFF9 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Heroku adds JavaScript support to PostgreSQL database as a service http://t.co/wTdvHx2fHb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: BI by the hour: Jaspersoft sheds light on its utility pricing model http://t.co/eGvAji4Qtr By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Continuum Analytics seeks to make Python synonymous with advanced analysis http://t.co/cLKzQbKN1k By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Birst opens up BI stack, embraces Redshift data warehouse service http://t.co/OLaL7Rz1K3 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Starview looks to Orion to make real-time IT monitoring shine http://t.co/RezlMUQajr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2013

* Cisco announced its intention to acquire Composite Software.

* Software AG acquired Apama.

* TIBCO Software acquired StreamBase Systems.

* Cloudera appointed Tom Reilly as Chief Executive Officer and Mike Olson as Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of the Board.

* Sears Holdings named Jeff Balagna Chief Executive Officer of MetaScale

* Ex-Yahoo CTO launched Altiscale, hardcore Hadoop as a service.

* SpaceCurve raised a $10M Series B round of financing.

* Sqrrl announced general availability of Sqrrl Enterprise.

* GE launched Predictivity services, supported by supported by Proficy Historian HD.

* Datameer announced Datameer 3.0.

* Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.3.

* MemSQL announced the upcoming availability of MemSQL 2.1.

* Continuuity announced the release of Weave, a new open source project that enables Java developers to rapidly build scalable, distributed applications on YARN.

* RainStor adds security, text search features to database complement for Hadoop.

* Composite Software introduced version 6.2 SP3 of its Composite Data Virtualization Platform

* TokuDB launched TokuMX.

* Terracotta announced the immediate availability of Terracotta Universal Messaging.

* HP united its data management assets under HAVEn brand.

* Hortonworks and Red Hat announced an engineering collaboration around Hadoop.

* Rackspace Hosting’s ObjectRocket Database as a Service entered into a strategic agreement with 10gen.

* Simon Phipps posted State Of The Sea Lion – June 2013.

* Netflix announced that its Genie Hadoop-aaS management software is now open source

* Storm-YARN released as open source.

* Big Data arrived at the Oxford English Dictionary

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.

GenieDB, Qubole, EdgeSpring, CouchDB, and more

For 451 Research clients: GenieDB launches first version of globally distributed relational database bit.ly/TXiX15

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 18, 2012

For 451 Research clients: Qubole prepares ‘big data’ PaaS for developers and data scientists bit.ly/TYHqTz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 19, 2012

For 451 clients: EdgeSpring exits stealth mode touting visual BI stack with ‘local file structure’ twist bit.ly/TYHrqQ By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 19, 2012

NoSQL LinkedIn Skills Index – December 2012 bit.ly/RC06NC NoSQL is growing, but some are growing faster than others.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 18, 2012

New blog post: CouchDB – sink or swim? bit.ly/T2Gzmp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 17, 2012

Appfluent Technology raises $4.4m Series AA venture capital for data warehouse management software. mwne.ws/TYHAu8

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) December 19, 2012

Congress moves to support Apace #Accumulo… a nice win for #sqrrlow.ly/gerdX

— sqrrl (@sqrrl_inc) December 19, 2012

The @vmware spinoff is probably a good thing for developers, says @451research‘s @maslett, now on @adtmag ow.ly/gaBhU.

— John K. Waters (@johnkwaters) December 17, 2012

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.

Funding for NGDATA. Sqrrl partners with Hortonworks. And more.

NGDATA Closes $2.5M in Funding to Fuel Global Expansion bit.ly/T0Z1Zr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 3, 2012

sqrrl and @hortonworks partner to certify Apache #Accumulo with Hortonworks Data Platform bit.ly/UbwQ0J

— sqrrl (@sqrrl_inc) October 3, 2012

@dreasoning has partnered with @oracle to integrate unstructured data analytics with Oracle’s Big Data Appliance bit.ly/T0Zg6O

— Digital Reasoning (@dreasoning) October 3, 2012

More data on big data: analysis of big data-related Twitter posts slidesha.re/Ue0Yst

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 3, 2012

“BellaDati is an agile analytics and reporting cloud tool inspired by gorgeous Isola Bella island located near Sicily.” mwne.ws/T0Z2N3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 3, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Adaptive Planning Acquires myDIALS. SpagoBI targets in-memory. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Adaptive Planning enhances BI business via pickup of myDIALS bit.ly/On216H By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2012

For 451 Research clients: SpagoBI identifies priorities: ‘big data’ and in-memory analytics top list bit.ly/QOCiyW By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2012

Adaptive Planning Acquires myDIALS – Ushers in New Era of Cloud-Based Business Intelligence bit.ly/On29TM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2012

GoodData unveils its BizData Monetization strategy. bit.ly/On306V

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2012

@mapr partners with @sqrrl_inc to provide #Hadoop and #Accumulo platform tested and ready for customers goo.gl/6EVWg

— sqrrl (@sqrrl_inc) September 12, 2012

Hortonworks updates Hortonworks Data Platform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux HA and Flume enhancements. bit.ly/Og6TF2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2012

Forthcoming webinar: the business advantage of Hadoop bit.ly/Pf6bIX Lessons from the field

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2012

Shuttleworth Invests $1 Million in Ceph Storage Startup Inktank bit.ly/TFQ8cZ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 11, 2012

“New WSO2 Business Activity Monitor 2.0 Re-architected for Just-in-Time, Big Data Collection and Analysis” bit.ly/Og6L8p

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) September 12, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

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

For 451 Research clients: Citrusleaf becomes Aerospike, ‘acq-hires’ AlchemyDB to create NoSQL/NewSQL database hybrid bit.ly/PXyeQ1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 28, 2012

For 451 Research clients: sqrrl data emerges from NSA to commercialize Accumulo NoSQL database bit.ly/PXya2F

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 28, 2012

Percolator, Dremel and Pregel: Alternatives to Hadoop bit.ly/U7z3GQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 28, 2012

Graphs are Everywhere: Solving the Complexities of Social Connections bit.ly/U7zb9c

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 28, 2012

The Elephant in the Cloud – Putting Hadoop on any Cloud bit.ly/U7zxwC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 28, 2012

Splunk previews two new offerings, and an open source project, to integrate with Hadoop. bit.ly/U7zsJ9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 28, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

JustOne preps 2.0. Sqrrl raises $2m. Hadoop: can there be only one?

For 451 Research clients: JustOne Database lines up version two of dual-role OLAP/OLTP database bit.ly/OKyFZM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 21, 2012

sqrrl raises $2 million, relocates from D.C. to Cambridge bit.ly/NBqQqM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 20, 2012

Hadoop vendors – can there be only one? Yes: bit.ly/Rvjs6a No: bit.ly/RvjsmV Maybe: bit.ly/Rvjv1R

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 20, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.