The Data Day, Two days: February 13/14 2013

TempoDB’s timely DBaaS for the Internet of Things. ScaleBase 2.0. And more

And that’s the data day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: December 6/7 2012

Cloudera raises $65m. HP launches Hadoop AppSystem. And more

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Two days: November 2/5 2012

Neo raises $11m. Updated database landscape graphic. And more.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, The week that was: October 22-26 2012

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

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.

The Data Day, Two days: October 15/16 2012

NGDATA searches for consumer intelligence. Sparsity looks for social analytics partners.

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: May 18 2012

SAP expands HANA. Informatica embraces big data. Gary Bloom joins MarkLogic. And more.

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* For 451 Research clients

# Informatica 9.5: ‘big data’ runs through the integration platform makeover Impact Report

# Lucid Imagination launches search-based ‘big data’ platform Impact Report

# Datameer updates Hadoop-based BI stack with an eye to more complex analysis Impact Report

# MarkLogic searches for operational analytics role with plans for SQL, MapReduce support Impact Report

# Infobright shines following shift to machine-generated data Impact Report

# Starcounter focuses on performance with in-memory database update Impact Report

# Guavus bears fruit with data-processing platform for communications operators Impact Report

# InsightSquared bags $4.5m series A funding and salesforce.com as an investor Impact Report

# MarkLogic names veteran exec Gary Bloom as new president and CEO Analyst note

* SAP Continues to Expand Capabilities and Scale of SAP HANA Platform and Ease Developer Adoption

* SAP HANA Offers Multi-Node Capabilities to Help Customers Scale Out

* Gary Bloom Joins MarkLogic as Chief Executive Officer

* Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

* Informatica 9.5 Unleashes the Power of Hadoop

* Informatica Brings Master Data Management to Big Data, Social, Cloud and Mobile Computing

* Talend Announces New Release of Enterprise Open Source Integration Platform

* Lucid Imagination Combines Search, Analytics and Big Data to Tackle the Problem of Dark Data

* Big Data Refinery Fuels Next-Generation Data Architecture

* 7 Key Drivers for the Big Data Market

* Google puts a price tag on Cloud SQL services

* Actuate and Hortonworks Collaborate to Visualize Big Data

* Hadapt and Cloudera Deliver Big Data Analytics with Apache Hadoop

* Cloudera Partners With Hadoop Managed Services Provider MetaScale to Help Large Traditional Enterprises Adopt Apache Hadoop

* Opera Solutions’ Big Analytics Tailor Made for SAP HANA: Signal Hub Technology

* Cloudant to Contribute Big Data Capabilities to Apache CouchDB Project

* Hortonworks and Kognitio Announce Technical Partnership

* Starcounter Unveils World’s Fastest Consistent Database

* XAP 9.0 – Geared for Real-Time Big Data Stream Processing

* How long before R overtakes SAS and SPSS?

* Betting big on live sports data, Perform lays €120 million on RunningBall

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Apr 11 2012

IBM launches Galileo database update. SAP outlines database roadmap. And more.

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* Made in IBM Labs: New IBM Software Accelerates Decision Making in the Era of Big Data IBM launches DB2 10 and InfoSphere Warehouse 10.

* SAP Unveils Unified Strategy for Real-Time Data Management to Grow Database Market Leadership

* SAP Unveils Strategy to Gain Predictive Insights From Big Data

* TIBCO Delivers Breakthrough Software to Analyze Big Data in Motion

* TIBCO Announces Intent to Acquire LogLogic

* TIBCO Spotfire and Attivio Partner to Deliver New Levels of Integration and Discovery for Data and Content

* Mortar Data, Hadoop for the Rest of Us, Gets Seed Funding

* The coming in-memory database tipping point. Microsoft’s perspective on in-memory databases.

* Jaspersoft Extends Partnership with Talend to Deliver Big Data Integration

* Oracle to Hold MySQL Connect Conference in San Francisco September 29 and 30, 2012

* Percona XtraDB Cluster Open Source Software Provides a New Approach to High Availability MySQL

* Tokutek Brings Replication Performance to MySQL and MariaDB

* Continuent Announces Tungsten Enterprise 1.5 for Multi-Master, Multi-Region MySQL Data Services in the Amazon EC2

* SkySQL, hastexo Form Highly Available Partnership

* MySQL at Twitter Twitter releases its MySQL modifications under BSD license.

* Percona Bundles New Relic to Provide Gold and Platinum Support Customers with Comprehensive Application Visibility

* Percona Toolkit 2.1 for MySQL Enables Schema Changes without Scheduling Downtime

* Percona XtraBackup 2.0 for MySQL and Percona Server Provides Increased Performance

* Delphix Expands Agile Data Platform to Support Oracle Exadata

* Red Hat and 10gen Create Compelling Open Source Data Platform

* Announcing Pre-Production MongoDB Subscription from 10gen

* VoltDB Announces Version 2.5

* Red Hat Storage 2.0 Beta: Partners Test Big Data, Hadoop Support

* Sungard wants to sell you Hadoop as a service

* Actian and Lenovo Team to Optimize Big Data and Business Intelligence with New Appliance

* Objectivity Expands European Management Team With Former Sones Founder Mauricio Matthesius

* expressor Expands Data Integration Platform Into Big Data

* The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Sqoop as a Top-Level Project

* LucidDB has left Eigenbase moved to Apache License

* For 451 Research clients

# IBM looks to the stars with Galileo relational database update Impact Report

# Indicee eyes fresh VC as it establishes beachhead for cloud BI service using OEM sales Impact Report

# Percona launches XtraDB Cluster for MySQL database high availability Impact Report

# Tokutek targets replication performance with database update Impact Report

# ‘Big data’ in the datacenter: Vigilent secures $6.7m funding round Impact Report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Mar 22 2012

Oracle reports Q3. EMC acquires Pivotal Labs. ClearStoty launches. And much, much more.

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* Oracle Reports Q3 GAAP EPS Up 20% to 49 Cents; Q3 Non-GAAP EPS Up 15% to 62 Cents Database and middleware revenue up 10%.

* EMC Goes Social, Open and Agile With Big Data EMC acquires Pivotal Labs, plans to release Chorus as an open source project

* ClearStory Data Launches With Investment From Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures

* HP Lead Big Data Exec Chris Lynch Resigns

* “Hortonworks Names Ari Zilka Chief Products Officer

* DataStax Enterprise 2.0 Adds Enterprise Search Capabilities to Smart Big Data Platform

* MapR Unveils Most Comprehensive Data Connection Options for Hadoop

* New Web-Based Alpine Illuminator Integrates with EMC Greenplum Chorus, The Social Data Science Platform

* RainStor and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights to Address Growing Big Data Challenges

* IBM Introduces New Predictive Analytics Services and Software to Reduce Fraud, Manage Financial Performance and Deliver Next Best Action

* Datameer Releases Major New Version of Analytics Platform

* Kognitio Announces Formation of “Kognitio Cloud” Business Unit

* HStreaming Announces Free Community Edition of Its Real-Time Analytics Platform for Hadoop

* Talend and MapR Announce Certification of Big Data Integration and Big Data Quality

* Schooner Information Technology Releases Membrain 4.0

* Gazzang Launches Big Data Encryption and Key Management Platform

* Logicworks Solves Big Data Hosting Challenges With New Infrastructure Services for Hadoop

* “Big Data” Among Most Confusing Tech Buzzwords

* For 451 Research clients

# Infochimps launches Chef-based platform for Hadoop deployment Impact Report

# Big-data security, or SIEM buzzword parity? Spotlight report

# DataStax adds enterprise search and elastic reprovisioning to database platform Market Development report

# With a new CEO and IBM as a reseller, Revolution Analytics charts next growth phase Market Development report

# Cray branches out, offering storage and a ‘big data’ appliance Market Development report

# CodeFutures sees a future beyond database sharding Market Development report

# Third time lucky for ScaleOut StateServer 5.0? Market Development report

# Attunity looks to 2012 for turnaround; up to the cloud and ‘big data’ movement Market Development report

# Panorama rides Microsoft’s coattails into in-memory social BI using SQL Server 2012 Market Development report

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Mar 2 2012

Hortonworks partners with Talend. Teradata and Greenplum updates. And more.

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* Talend Empowers Apache Hadoop Community with Talend Open Studio for Big Data

* Hortonworks Announces Strategic Partnership With Talend to Bring World’s Most Popular Open Source Data Integration Platform to Apache Community Talend Open Studio for Big Data, will be bundled as part of Hortonworks Data Platform.

* Teradata Transforms Global Database Technology

* New EMC Greenplum Database Enhancements Boost Big Data Analytics

* Cisco’s servers now tuned for Hadoop

* Amplidata Closes $8M Funding Round with Big Bang Ventures, Endeavour Vision, Intel Capital and Swisscom

* Got Big Data? Jaspersoft CEO Brian Gentile outlines three approaches to connecting to ‘big data’ for business intelligence reporting and analysis.

* Cray’s YarcData Division Launches New Big Data Graph Appliance

* Introducing Spring Hadoop Developing applications for Hadoop technologies based on Spring technologies.

* MarkLogic and Hortonworks Partner to Enhance Real-Time Big Data Applications with Apache Hadoop

* Continuent and SkySQL Join Forces to Better Serve the Global MySQL Community

* Data Entrepreneurship

* For 451 Research clients

# Anaplan bags $11.4m in VC, looks beyond budgeting and planning to business operations Impact Report

# XtremeData seeks to differentiate analytic database for extreme data workloads Impact Report

# Calpont adds parallel loading to columnar database for online analytics Market Development Report

# MarkLogic formalizes Hadoop support with Hortonworks partnership Analyst note

And that’s the Data Day, today.

The Data Day, Today: Feb 17 2012

Rob Bearden is new Hortonworks CEO. Oracle updates MySQL Cluster. And more.

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

* With a new CEO, will Hortonworks get serious about Hadoop? Rob Bearden is Hortonworks’ new chief elephant-herder.

* Oracle Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2. Claims 1 billion queries per minute.

* Vertica Extends Manageability and Ease-of-Use for the Vertica Analytics Platform.

* NGDATA Raises Capital to Accelerate Growth Belgian data management company confirms that it recently acquired Outerthought.

* QlikTech Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2011 Financial Results

* Quest Business Intelligence Studio 1.0 is now Generally Available

* Jaspersoft Delivers Big Data Integration into Jaspersoft ETL

* Hortonworks University Launches to Deliver Comprehensive Apache Hadoop Training and Certification.

* Schema in Cassandra 1.1. “as systems deployed on Cassandra grew and matured, lack of schema became a pain point”

* GigaSpaces Announces New Cloudify Free Product Edition.

* Announcing Reduced Pricing on SQL Azure and New 100MB Database Option.

* Composite Software Continues Innovation with Release of Version 6.1 of its Data Virtualization Platform.

* Multi-Tenant Cloudant in Europe.

* NuvolaBase has launched its hosted graph database offering.

* How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did. Big data’s beer and diapers equivalent.

* Beyond “Big Data”. “I have a theory that buzzwords are usually helpful in general, in that they usher in new concepts before they end up as meaningless marketing fluff–and, eventually, punchlines. I think this is in the process of happening right now with the term “big data”.”

* For 451 Research clients

# Akiban prepares to launch ‘table grouping’ NewSQL database IMpact Report

# IBM sheds light on the Big Blue business of information governance Market Decelopment Report

And that’s the Data Day, today.