The Data Day, Two days: February 27/28 2013

Rackspace buys ObjectRocket. Intel delivers Hadoop distro. And more.

For 451 Research clients: Rackspace docks with ObjectRocket to boost data services portfolio bit.ly/15ktZV8 Deal Analysis

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 28, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Intel formally enters the Hadoop business with hardware-enhanced performance focus bit.ly/ZzSkD3

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 27, 2013

For 451 Research clients: Cloudera manages to navigate Hadoop toward auditing and backup/recovery bit.ly/15ku2jI

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 28, 2013

For 451 clients: Revolution Analytics furthers ‘big data’ analysis push with Hortonworks partnership bit.ly/ZzSlXN By Krishna Roy

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 27, 2013

JethroData secures $4.5m funding led by Pitango Venture Capital for columnar RDBMS/HDFS combo. bit.ly/15kur5A

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 28, 2013

Intel launches Distribution for Apache Hadoop intel.ly/V5JQ7S intel.ly/V5JQ7S

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 26, 2013

Aerospike launches Aerospike Enterprise Edition 2.6 with enhanced cross data center replication. bit.ly/V5KqTd

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 26, 2013

Dell Software launches Kitenga Analytics 2.0. bit.ly/15ku7UE

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 28, 2013

Rackspace confirms ObjectRocket acquisition. bit.ly/VatoU7

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 27, 2013

MyRedis launches on-demand Redis hosting bit.ly/ZzSzy6

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 27, 2013

Hadoop is evil. bit.ly/YAhcri Via @al3xandru “All U.S. nuclear waste can be directly attributable to Hadoop’

— Matt Aslett (@maslett) February 27, 2013

And that’s the data day, today.