WELCOME to the March 2009 issue of the Vertica Newsletter. This newsletter -- delivered by email to subscribers -- provides information helpful to Vertica customers and those interested in analytic DBMS technology. This month’s news: Reading – Cloud Data Security, Vertica Cost Comparisons, Future of DBMS Innovation Download – Install the Vertica Virtualized Edition for VMware Product – Vertica 3.0 is coming soon Partners – Syncsort smashes ETL world record using the Vertica Analytic Database Webcasts – Comcast Webinar on April 30. Other customer webinars available on-demand Welcome new customers READING - Jerry Held on The Inventor’s Dilemma for Analytic Databases What are the truly disruptive innovations found in today’s analytic databases? Surprisingly, they’re not related to performance and storage capacity. In a recent blog post, Vertica Chairman and ex-Oracle SVP, Jerry Held explains how data center trends, namely cloud computing and virtualization, may lead to the extinction of traditional data warehouse DBMS architectures and proprietary hardware. Read the blog article and join the discussion Other new reading: Customer Benchmarks Cutting Hardware Costs with Vertica Tech Brief Securing Cloud-based Databases White Paper Squeezing More Value out of Databases with Compression White Paper Transforming the Economics of Data Warehousing with Cloud Computing NEW DOWNLOAD - Vertica Virtualized Edition Vertica recently announced a “virtualized” edition of the Vertica Analytic Database that makes it easier and faster than ever to deploy Vertica Analytic Databases—on any VMware ESX- or VMware Server-supported machines—and manage them centrally with the VMware virtualization platform. Download Vertica and run it on VMware Customer Webcast Recording: Virtualized Data Warehousing at MarketBridge PRODUCT - Vertica Version 3.0 is Coming Soon Vertica Analytic Database 3.0 is in beta and will be released in May. Vertica 3.0 includes new SQL (analytic functions), and enhanced security, internationalization, performance and administrative features. To get pre-launch information on Vertica 3.0, please email a request to download@vertica.com, and we’ll send you a detailed list of enhancements. PARTNERS - Vertica and Syncsort Break ETL World Record At the end of 2008, Vertica and its partner, Syncsort, broke the ETL world record (based on the TPC-H benchmark data set) by loading 5TB of data into a Vertica Analytic Database in less than 1 hour. Read about the benchmark In other partner news, Vertica has recently announced certified support for MicroStrategy, Tableau, DigitalRoute and other partners. To see what other technology partners work with Vertica visit http://www.vertica.com/partners/technology. http://www.vertica.com/partners/technology WEBCASTS - Learn About Vertica Customer Deployments There are plenty of Vertica customers talking about their projects! We encourage you to view these webcasts to learn more about how Vertica is being used… April 30 - Comcast – Comcast will be describing multiple Vertica projects To view other customer webcast recordings featuring Verizon, Mozilla, Glassbeam, Diio, nMetrics, MarketBridge, Sonian, Hmetrix and others… Visit the Vertica Webcast Library Welcome new Vertica customers… The following companies have recently joined the Vertica Analytic Database customer community: Experian, Syniverse, MarketBridge, KISSMetrics, CenterBridge, GlassBeam and others… To see a list of other Vertica customers and read what they say about using the Vertica Analytic Database, visit: Vertica Customers