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.