Man, that's really a lot of filler-text to announce that you're basically doing "something with HBase".

Can we get at least some basic details, like is this going to be a hosted service or something I install on my own servers?

It's a lot more than "something with HBase" :)

It'll be hosted in the cloud (SaaS-style), or you can run it in the datacenter.

So and it's basically a convenience wrapper around HBase/Hadoop or...? I'm still not clear what it actually adds on top of regular HBase.

HBase is basically a column-based key-value store. It's just where we store our data. We provide a real-time query language, structured and unstructured search, processing. It's a complete data platform.