WELCOME . . to the October 2008 issue of the Vertica Newsletter This newsletter -- delivered by email to subscribers -- provides information helpful for Vertica customers and those interested in the benefits of the Vertica Analytic Database.. New Product: Vertica 2.5 Available – Get it Now… If you previously considered Vertica but are not yet using it, you might want to come back and take another look. Vertica 2.5 has been enhanced with greatly expanded support for SQL and the ability to implement any schema design, which makes it possible for Vertica to meet a much wider variety of analytic workload requirements. Major new features include: Expanded SQL support, with nested sub-queries, new SQL joins, SQL functions and more Ability to support any type of schema design Query routing to ease migration from or co-existence with other data warehouses Support for hot backups, event monitoring, database profiling and multi-tenant databases Resources: Read about the new features in the What’s New in Vertica 2.5 datasheet Download the software Request an evaluation copy Learn About Customer Deployments There are plenty of Vertica customers talking about their projects! We encourage you to attend any of the following webcasts to learn more about how to deploy Vertica and the benefits it’s providing customers: Thu Oct 16 - nMetrics – Replaced Postgres with Vertica in their Network Monitoring appliance Tue Oct 21 Dr. Mike Stonebraker – Vertica CTO explains the latest DBMS technology trends Thu Oct 30 - Hmetrix – Healthcare data warehousing and visualization with Vertica and Tableau And if you missed these recent customer webcasts, you can still view the archived recordings: Verizon Revolutionizes CDR Data Warehousing with Vertica download slides Mozilla Transforms BI with Vertica and Pentaho download slides Sonian Builds a Data Warehouse in the Amazon Cloud with Vertica download slides New Customer Training & Support Material… Available to Vertica customers and evaluators, the Vertica V-Zone contains a large library of implementation support materials. The following documents were added to the library or updated since the last newsletter: SAN Storage Configuration Guide IBM WebSphere DataStage Integration Guide Using Vertica for Historical Trade Data Warehousing Cookbook Visit the V-Zone to access these and other support resources: Vertica V-Zone If there are additional support topics you’d like us to address, please let us know: Contact Us Welcome new Vertica customers… Since the last newsletter the following companies have joined the Vertica Analytic Database customer community: Pink OTC Markets, Eidetics, Leadsplease.com, LPS, SingleFeed and others… To see a list of other Vertica customers and read what they say about using the Vertica Analytic Database, visit: Vertica Customers