New CEO at Revolution. Pentaho goes big data. EMC Hadoop gets Isilon. And more.

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* Revolution Analytics Names David Rich New CEO

* Pentaho Open Sources Big Data Capabilities to Further Fuel Widespread Adoption

* EMC Isilon is Industry’s First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support

* Actuate Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results

* Sumo Logic Raises $15M Series B Round for Next Generation Log Management and Analytics

* Announcing Oracle R Enterprise 1.0

* Paul Cormier Joins Hortonworks’ Board of Directors

* DataStax Launches First Complete Solution for Cassandra Development on Windows and Mac

* Latest Release of Kalido Information Engine Eliminates Data Mart Migration and Consolidation Hassles

* Karmasphere Brings More Power, Collaboration, and Faster Insights to Big Data Analytics Teams on Hadoop

* Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty

* SAP HANA – slowly moving out of hype into actual projects

* For 451 Research clients

# Actuate gets ready to go shopping in the ‘big data’ mall Acquirer IQ

# Couchbase cites enterprise adoption, clarifies distributed NoSQL database strategy Impact report

# SpagoBI illuminates 2012 roadmap, takes open source model to US, Latin America Impact report

# Customer data analysis provider nPario combines big data and smart segmentation Impact report

# Tableau details 2012 growth strategy, gets semantic for visual analytics Market development report

# EMC integrates re-branded Hadoop distribution with Isilon NAS Market development report

# Quiterian seeks funding for new customer analytics in the cloud focus Market development report

# Hortonworks refines its commercial strategy for Apache Hadoop Market development report

# Digital Reasoning pledges to automate the analysis of complex data Market development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Amazon launches DynamoDB. Red Hat virtually supports JasperReports. And more.

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* Amazon Web Services Launches Amazon DynamoDB See also blog posts from Werner Vogels and Jeff Barr, as well as reaction from DataStax and Basho.

* Jaspersoft Delivers Analytics for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Customers JasperReports Server is embedded in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0.

* Tableau 7.0 Brings Simplicity to Business Intelligence Including new Data Server for data sharing and management.

* Hortonworks to Deliver Next-Generation of Apache Hadoop Pre-announcement (emphasis on the pre).

* RainStor Announces First Enterprise Database Running Natively on Hadoop as well as partnerships with Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR, and support from Composite Software.

* Talend Platform for Data Services Operationalizes Information and Data A common development, deployment and monitoring environment for both data management and application integration.

* Fujitsu Launches Cloud Services as a Platform for Big Data Data Utilization Platform Services.

* All you wanted to know about Hadoop, but were too afraid to ask A graphic illustration of the various versions of Apache Hadoop.

* Oracle Database or Hadoop? Another good post from Pythian’s Gwen Shapira. See also Aaron Cordova’s Do I need SQL or Hadoop?

* Meet Code 42, Accel’s first Big Data Fund investment GigaOM has the details.

* MapR CEO Sees Big Changes in Big Data in 2012 Predictive.

* Introducing DataFu: an open source collection of useful Apache Pig UDFs LinkedIn launches open source user-defined functions.

* Big Data Needs Data Scientists, Or Quants, Or Excel Jockeys … or something.

* Career of the Future: Data Scientist [INFOGRAPHIC] Infotaining.

* Knives out for Oracle. SAP and IBM offer some perspectives on Exalytics and Big Data Appliance respectively.

* For 451 Research clients

# Information Builders uses Infobright to take BI in-memory, expands SMB reach Market development report

# RainStor launches database complement to Apache Hadoop Market development report

# Heroku’s Postgres is poised for growing interest in database as a service Market development report

* Google News Search outlier of the day: This Spud’s For All of You: “2012 Is the Year of the Potato”

And that’s the Data Day, today.

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

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* 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.