Paxata, a Big Data solutions provider, has raised $8 million in Series B funding. At the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013, Paxata launched the first self-service Adaptive Data Preparation™ platform that lets business analysts rapidly collect, explore, transform and combine data. Paxata’s solution lets make data sets ready for ad-hoc analytics without going through the painful and manual steps they traditionally dealt with. Big Data market enters phase of a robust growth, this is a conclusion of recent market reports covering Big Data market segments: