Dell acquiring EMC. And more

Team @451Research’s take on @Dell acquisition of @EMCcorp can be found here: http://t.co/75oRdXrk7p

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2015

Our preview of Data Platforms and Analytics in 2016 is now available to @451Research clients http://t.co/Xbn2F94YFm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Zendesk reaches for @bimeanalytics http://t.co/oU4Ays9mr3 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2015

For @451Research clients: Clearlake Capital acquires mainframe/big-data-integration specialist @Syncsort http://t.co/dJfb8gpxRE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Splunk scales up, as well as out, with version 6.3 http://t.co/3cQ0CDgHUA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Pepperdata adds customers, ramps up Hadoop cluster optimization sales http://t.co/JT9VUDs99l By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2015

For @451Research clients: Streaming startup @pipelineDB adds support for Kafka, wins first customer http://t.co/8sNyQWIIkK By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 16, 2015

For @451Research clients: @OT_Analytics targets citizen data scientists with Big Data Analytics in the Cloud http://t.co/XcqGPfgnGd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 5, 2015

For @451Research clients: @SumoLogic brings Continuous Intelligence to Amazon Web Services http://t.co/dJKHpN55Om By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 8, 2015

For @451Research clients: @StreamSets sets sights on data sanitization following $12.5m series A http://t.co/YBSOcYeFP3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2015

For @451Research clients: @IBM ties its data integration and quality wares to Hadoop with YARN http://t.co/cZ5slpTufV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 6, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Couchbase adds SQL to NoSQL with Couchbase Server 4.0 http://t.co/vgm7w1IqjY

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 8, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Statwing chases statistical analysis sweet spot, rolls out on-premises http://t.co/lnZNe0hmxJ By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 9, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Altiscale loads up Data Cloud, adds Spark service, security certifications http://t.co/R3FnqyvvwN By Jim Curtis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2015

For @451Research clients: @objectivitydb launches ThingSpan 'information fusion' platform for fast data http://t.co/55ZwEMJHvr

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Clustrix improves database elasticity, performance with ClustrixDB 7.0 http://t.co/N7HPdREuEu By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2015

Dell confirms offer to acquire EMC for $33.15 per share http://t.co/rz9st0H6nV

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 12, 2015

Zendesk has acquired We Are Cloud, the company behind BIME Analytics for $45m http://t.co/MCMoqh83tz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2015

Clearlake Capital Group has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Syncsort. http://t.co/xA2aMl2RO4

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 12, 2015

Thoma Bravo announces sale of Embarcadero to Idera http://t.co/VFnz1n1Cv1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 8, 2015

AWS announces QuickSight business intelligence service http://t.co/3YfaAOgErh

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2015

AWS launches Kinesis Firehose data ingestion service http://t.co/oVQ4KwzlsS

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2015

AWS adds MariaDB to RDS http://t.co/rrdypbcHjl \

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2015

SAP launches SAP Cloud for Analytics based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform http://t.co/P1kwU0l1va

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2015

Informatica introduces v10 updates to PowerCenter, Data Quality and Data Integration Hub http://t.co/5rEedY7nKm

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2015

Teradata Database is now available on Amazon Web Services http://t.co/9JrmeCB6CN

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 7, 2015

Couchbase announces the general availability of its 4.0 release http://t.co/wMNLWmO62N

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 6, 2015

Basho targets IoT data with Basho Riak TS. http://t.co/v3y9snsZCx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 6, 2015

Attivio introduces Data Source Discovery for Tableau http://t.co/uFwIiXE5Cb

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 13, 2015

Google launches Cloud Datalab for exploration, transformation and visualization of data in Google Cloud Platform. http://t.co/d6zCfNnYLx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 15, 2015

GridGain updates In-Memory Data Fabric to version 7.4 – based on Apache Ignite 1.4. http://t.co/Tw32ePlyrv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) October 14, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.

HDS acquires Pentaho. And more

For @451Research clients: @HDScorp plants a stake in IoT analysis ground with @Pentaho pickup http://t.co/mvDz6GuVex By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 12, 2015

For @451Research clients: @OversightSystms illuminates Insights On Demand roadmap, business progress http://t.co/aERGMpkiIx By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 13, 2015

For @451Research clients: NLG sector consolidates as STATS nabs @AInsights http://t.co/dasbbStR0Z By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 13, 2015

For @451Research clients: @Cloudera invests in @CaskData to boost Hadoop-based application development http://t.co/3EsB5NUACu Analyst note

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 13, 2015

Hitachi Data Systems announces intention to acquire Pentaho http://t.co/otPRWpJZd2

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 10, 2015

Qlik reported Q4 net inc of $25.8m on revenue up 13% to $182.8m, FY net loss of $24.6m on revenue up 18% to $556.8m http://t.co/k0DBzA3oOQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 13, 2015

Cloudera has made an equity investment in Cask http://t.co/xUYRkfPEBC

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 11, 2015

Datadog has acquired Mortar Data https://t.co/uuK92Kb3yA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 11, 2015

Mesosphere and MapR launch Myriad project to unite Apache YARN and Apache Mesos http://t.co/6UiVJfIGHn

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 11, 2015

Teradata launches big data apps http://t.co/0ghvcpRny9 updates Loom http://t.co/7LzzEh9Px0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 11, 2015

MemSQL introduces Spark connectivity. http://t.co/3gsgyI0O2Z

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 10, 2015

Datameer launches Datameer Professional SaaS analytics offering. http://t.co/rHVoVYqAnA

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 11, 2015

Dataguise introduces discovery and security offering for NoSQL http://t.co/uo0IzkPJQ3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 11, 2015

Syncsort updates DMX Software data integration suite for Hadoop. http://t.co/IgtBCoGv9b

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 12, 2015

EnterpriseDB updates Postgres Plus Advanced Server http://t.co/n0nZ9PdTvu Postgres Enterprise Manager http://t.co/4qbOhVTDqq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 12, 2015

Pivotal adds fully managed database-as-a-service (based on MariaDB and Galera Cluster) to Cloud Foundry. http://t.co/lntew2ydtz

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 10, 2015

Seems like DataStax’s newly acquired graph database team will continue to contribute to Titan after all http://t.co/REUjiWOkOL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 10, 2015

And that’s the data day, today.

Funding for MapR and Couchbase. And more

For @451Research clients: @Oracle adds in-memory capability to @OracleDatabase http://t.co/lRQsAFA79u By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2014

For @451Research clients: @aerospikedb goes open source, raises $20m series C for in-memory NoSQL database http://t.co/LRbKALh1yL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2014

For @451Research clients: @Tamr_Inc lands $16m series A for data preparation service http://t.co/rBuSI14EyF By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

For @451Research clients: With $25m series C round, @trifacta details its data transformation play http://t.co/V1DrAoxNOI By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

For @451Research clients: @EXASOLAG makes analytics database even faster with EXASolution Version 5 http://t.co/BYNVpfORHz By @jasonstamper

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

For @451Research clients: @CodeFutures launches AgilData real-time data-aggregation platform http://t.co/4cjUDiXhpo

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

For @451Research clients: @InformaticaCorp buys @strikeiron to enhance data-as-a-service offerings http://t.co/z2Upcyx5AE By @@CarlLehmann1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 23, 2014

MapR raises $110m ($80m equity, $30 debt) led by Google Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, SVB and existing investors http://t.co/ghgUxY5L3U

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

Couchbase secures $60m series E funding led by WestSummit and Accel Growth Fund. http://t.co/D071BsgDQt

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2014

Aerospike raises $20m http://t.co/eQKFe2qKMz, open sources NoSQL database http://t.co/9yBpLKW8fw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

WANdisco acquired OhmData, developer of the Apache HBase-based C5 database http://t.co/gqITJUUvAp

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

Hortonworks has announced that Apache Spark has been certified as YARN Ready. http://t.co/AZy9A5Oz41

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 27, 2014

DataStax unveils DataStax Enterprise 4.5, including in-memory analytics powered by Spark. http://t.co/0OC2xZbIQJ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

Teradata has introduced Teradata Aster R. http://t.co/EQCfTMVGzR

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 26, 2014

Guavus enhances its Reflex Operational Intelligence Platform with Apache Spark and YARN http://t.co/bHJD9HEp1r

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

Actian has delivered all-in-one platform pricing for Actian Analytics Platform http://t.co/YADahGPeKx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 30, 2014

SanDisk launches ZetaScale software enabling analytics apps and NoSQL databases to take advantage of flash. http://t.co/9Y8DqlAJYq

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

Google introduces Cloud Dataflow stream processing service (amongst other things). http://t.co/BEzhLyNp1H

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2014

Pentaho announced the general availability of version 5.1 of its business analytics and data integration platform. http://t.co/auZgXoRQGD

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

RainStor launches archive application on Hadoop 2.0. http://t.co/iWIZ0gu2h9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

CumuLogic launches on-premises MongoDB database-as-a-service platform http://t.co/PAa3DzsFi1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

Dell launches in-memory scale-out appliances for Cloudera Enterprise http://t.co/51DtZiwodP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

Google introduces Cayley, an open source graph database http://t.co/yAxx7aZKtQ

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 25, 2014

SlamData releases open source analytics for MongoDB http://t.co/7Vfn74aCre

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) June 24, 2014

And that’s the data day, today.

Informatica eyes eyes $1bn in sales. And more

For 451 clients: Informatica adds business twist to integration, DQ and MDM, eyes $1bn in sales http://t.co/SOX4OaQgu6 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2014

For 451 clients: Microsoft gives Excel cloud service more 'power' in bid to prime it further for BI http://t.co/H2XmWtSLM5 By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 17, 2014

For 451 Research clients: MapR ties YARN and HP Vertica to its MapR Distribution including Apache Hadoop http://t.co/Zht96dSPjP

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2014

For 451 Research clients: NoSQL through the looking glass? Couchbase sees a significant shift in adoption trends http://t.co/OrotDKQP2W

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2014

For 451 clients: 28msec goes vertical in financial services and publishing as it eyes venture funding http://t.co/LmHfPkbXyv By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2014

@451Research Clients: New Research "451 Data: Information governance falls flat despite the hype" https://t.co/JCuIGxnNGS

— Alan Pelz-Sharpe (@socialbizAlan) February 21, 2014

Qlik reports Q4 net income of $8.3m on revenue up 18% to $161.8m, FY net loss of $10.0m on revenue up 21% to $470.5m. http://t.co/9pt09TxvIB

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 21, 2014

BeyondCore raises $9m in series A round led by Menlo Ventures http://t.co/qAmVDD7pjv

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 20, 2014

Infobright introduces new Approximate Query functionality. http://t.co/wihADyt1ho

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2014

Cloudant introduces Cloudant Sync for Android and Cloudant Sync for iOS. http://t.co/LDLI5u5Gqx

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2014

Tokutek has announced TokuMX v1.4 with improved sharding for MongoDB. http://t.co/MkgkXMnmWU

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2014

Datawatch announces a global strategic alliance with MarkLogic. http://t.co/UREKeIajk7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 19, 2014

Percona CEO, Peter Zaitsev, evaluates the MySQL ecosystem. http://t.co/Db1lf6aT2O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 18, 2014

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.

Symantec teams CFS with Hadoop. Informatica Cloud. And more

For 451 Research clients: Symantec marries Hadoop with Veritas Cluster File System bit.ly/OXIB3B

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 15, 2012

For 451 clients: Informatica’s new cloud release creates platform for ‘integration as a self-service’ bit.ly/MBSzu By @carllehmann1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 17, 2012

Apache Hadoop YARN – Concepts and Applications, by @acmurthy bit.ly/TGHh8A

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 16, 2012

Apache Incubator proposal for Drill – a distributed system for interactive analysis, inspired by Google’s Dremel. bit.ly/QF1TtL

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 16, 2012

Nice explanation of eventual consistency, comparison of various NoSQL databases in this interview with @justinsheehy bit.ly/Sn9ZJ1

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 15, 2012

What’s ‘big’ got to do with it? bit.ly/Sn6yCg Delving into the results of @jaspersoft‘s latest Big Data Survey.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 15, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

Who loves Hadoop? Who doesn’t?

Who Loves Hadoop? bit.ly/P53j5t At least we now know who is suggesting that Hadoop might need to be ‘taken out of open source’-O

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2012

Who doesn’t love Hadoop? bit.ly/NENgFH Responding to suggestions that Hadoop would be better off closed.

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2012

For 451 Research clients: LexisNexis cites benefits from open-sourcing HPCC Systems bit.ly/P536Pw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2012

Apache Hadoop YARN – Background and an Overview… great explanation by @acmurthy shar.es/vw8T4

— Hortonworks (@hortonworks) August 8, 2012

Log Insight has been acquired by VMware bit.ly/O2ort0

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2012

Jaspersoft partners with DataStax to create analytics connector for Apache Cassandra. prn.to/NjevYT

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2012

Actuate and DataStax partner to deliver analytics for Apache Cassandra. bit.ly/Mj7yJw

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 8, 2012

Announcing Acunu Reflex with Analytics, v3 acunu.com/2/post/2012/08… #bigdata #cassandra #v3

— Acunu (@Acunu) August 8, 2012

Information. Insight. Instantly: Check Out The Latest Version Of Our Big Data Platform! bit.ly/QCimDb

— infochimps (@infochimps) August 7, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.

StormDB looks to define database cloud. YARN becomes Hadoop sub-project. And more.

For 451 Research clients: StormDB seeks to define the database cloud with managed database service bit.ly/Me37e9

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 2, 2012

YARN (aka MapReduce 2.0/NextGen MapReduce) is now a sub-project of Apache Hadoop. bit.ly/Mnvf4L

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 3, 2012

Teradata reports GAAP net income of $112m in Q2 on revenue up 14% to $665m. prn.to/N4YLII

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 2, 2012

Actuate reported GAAP net income of $5.6m in Q2 on revenue up 7% to $36.2m. bit.ly/M7VF9d

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 3, 2012

Gazzang and DataStax team up for NoSQL data security. bit.ly/Me3d5L

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) August 2, 2012

And that’s the Data Day, today.