Neo updates Neo4j. Cloudera sharpens focus on Accumulo. And more

For 451 clients: IBM steps up commitment to Watson with BU, $1bn investment, $100m startup fund http://t.co/ptHrWCY7Io By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 17, 2014

For 451 clients: Diyotta aims to bring data integration to the yottabyte generation using ELT approach http://t.co/oFXyZiJDO4 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2014

Neo Technology has announced the general availability of Neo4j 2.0 and the launch of its online training program. http://t.co/FasHkFW3pE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

Basho introduces commercial support for open source Riak with Riak Starter and Riak Basic. http://t.co/ONGXaYs13d

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

SGI announces plans to develop an in-memory appliance based on SAP HANA. http://t.co/AFZCLFYBbI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

Cloudera steps up focused on Apache Accumulo via joint development partnership with Koverse. http://t.co/y3Y30TBfzf

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 16, 2014

Verizon introduces Per-Hour Billing for Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware on Verizon Cloud http://t.co/PtIUq5z02O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 13, 2014

Veristorm Launches vStorm Enterprise, a commercial Hadoop distribution for Linux on mainframe. http://t.co/Zf1GXHbhZd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

Google launches a preview release of the Google Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop. http://t.co/dI3HQ6oOGJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2014

Garantia Data's Redis Cloud service is now available on IBM's SoftLayer IaaS platform. http://t.co/ZfUtciJr4M

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 15, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

IBM forms Watson Group. And more

For 451 Research clients: Cloudera aims for the skies with Enterprise Data Hub, AWS cloud partnership http://t.co/tcoMJQKX9P

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

For 451 Research clients: SAP illuminates rationale for KXEN acquisition and serves up first fruits http://t.co/ZlvxEkBq1u By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 10, 2014

For 451 clients: Host Analytics gives Airlift to Excel users, eyes IPO as 'Hyperion in the cloud' http://t.co/qbwNr82Oiw By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

For 451 Research clients: With Aspera buy, IBM aspires to provide faster 'big data' transfers http://t.co/6nEyL6QB4w By Peter Christy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

IBM forms Watson Group, unveils cloud-based Watson data discovery and analysis services. http://t.co/tVpztksfQH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 9, 2014

SAP reports HANA software revenue up 61% at actual currencies to €633m in 2013. http://t.co/aprzE28Wah

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 10, 2014

Tibco reported Q4 net inc of $44.5m on revenue up 6.4% to $315.5m, FY net inc of $84m on revenue up 4.4% to $1.07bn. http://t.co/i2WSL95jfk

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

Mike Olson explains why Cloudera sees Apache Spark as a potential successor to MapReduce. http://t.co/U1k16sBJc1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 6, 2014

Qubole has started alpha testing Presto-as-a-Service, based on Facebook's SQL query engine for Hadoop. http://t.co/3QG3xxSeoI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 9, 2014

Logi Analytics introduces Logi Vision for data discovery, analysis and visualisation. http://t.co/n7epudceFM

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 7, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Navigating our illustrated database landscape map. And more

For 451 Research clients: An exclusive guide to navigating our illustrated database landscape map. bit.ly/13mUrfO

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

For 451 clients: Orchestra lays out MDM score for 2013 as it continues to tread independent path bit.ly/VZtKtn By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 14, 2013

ScaleArc confirms $12.3m in series C Funding. prn.to/13mUxnz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

Netflix discusses details of its Hadoop Platform as a Service in the Cloud. nflx.it/13mUDvF

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

DataStax announces Community Edition 1.2 mwne.ws/13mUzvH

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

Splunk Gains on Speculation IBM May Consider Takeover – Bloomberg bloom.bg/ZQWdGU

— Dave Kellogg (@Kellblog) January 11, 2013

IBM’s Watson taught itself how to swear. bit.ly/13mUIzb It’ll be dating next. Via @sogrady

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) January 11, 2013

And that’s the Data Day, today.