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Analytic Response | Vertica 4.0 adds strength and flexibility
February 25, 2010 The latest version of Vertica includes important upgrades like workload management that allows users to manage complex mixed queries and align them to business priorities. They have also made the system Unicode compliant enabling them to handle international locations and data. Armed with enhanced international capabilities I would look for Vertica to start aggressive growth initiatives in Europe in 2010.
IT-Director.com | Onwards and Upwards
February 24, 2010 At TDWI in Las Vegas this week, Vertica announced version 4.0 of its Analytic Database columnar MPP technology. There are several main areas of improved functionality.
BeyeNETWORK | Vertica Announces the Release Vertica Analytic Database
February 23, 2010 Vertica recently announced the release of the ultra-fast Vertica Analytic Database. Vertica 4.0 includes new features that give enterprises orders of magnitude faster performance than traditional databases while extending these speed gains to a wider range of markets and business users.
intelligent enterprise | February 2010 Data Warehouse News
February 22, 2010 Vertica has had a highly innovative columnar DBMS architecture from the getgo, but at the cost of some restrictions or awkwardness in the relationship between data layout and SQL processing. Vertica says that Vertica 4.0 fixes all that. In addition, it has some analytic processing enhancements, especially in the time series area, where Vertica doesn't vigorously dispute that Sybase IQ previously had an advantage.
TDWI | Wayne's World
February 2, 2010 "I love the chart, but what am I supposed to do about it?" With that simple question, Ken Rudin is schooling analysts at Zynga how to deliver information that makes a difference in the way the wildly successful gaming company creates and enhances games for customers.
BeyeNETWORK | Dave Menninger of Vertica
November 4, 2009 A new podcast at BeyeNetworks discusses hybrids: Dave Menninger, VP of Marketing for Vertica, discusses the recent interest in hybrid row/column stores and explains what is different about Vertica's hybrid capabilities.
Data Warehouse to Boost Performance for Pink OTC | Dealing With Technology
October 30, 2009
A Vertica customer gets profiled: The three-phase project began at the end of the third quarter of 2008, says Rahul Bose, director of application development with Pink OTC Markets. "The first phase consisted of moving the trading and reference data to the data warehouse, which was completed during the first quarter of this year and went into production the following quarter," he adds.
New Ideas for Old Information | Information-Management.com
October 27, 2009
Jim Ericson story on information gaining new value features a key technology: “You see this attraction of companies that get the cloud, and Vertica was there with this really high-performance database,” says Arnette. “So when we work with Amazon, Vertica and others, the model supports more than just managing data. Customers want to mine and unlock the dark data that comes from analyzing communications from different perspectives, everything from social graphing to themes and project experts.”
Workday and Vertica: Cracking the 100 Customer Mark « Market Strategies for IT Suppliers
September 28, 2009
Merv Adrian says 100 customers is significant: Vertica has invested steadily and wisely to ramp up sales and marketing efforts. Marketing is a critical component, but punchy campaigns and flashy web sites mean nothing unless companies buy and keep investing in a technology. As it approaches the 100-customer mark, Vertica has proven that it is delivering what enterprises want – fast database technology that solves real-world business problems.
Stock service's data warehouse now delivers in seconds, not hours | Computerworld
September 9, 2009
Eric Lai with a feature on a customer finding a cheaper, better analytic DBMS: The firm then eliminated Informix because of the cost. According to Bose, Informix licenses combined with a storage area network he felt would be needed to "get good performance" with Informix would have brought the cost to more than a million dollars, compared to the several hundred thousand dollars it spent on Vertica and its cluster.
BeyeNETWORK | Leading Cloud and BI Vendors to Deliver Complete Business Intelligence on the Cloud
August 13, 2009
The BeyeNetwork plays it straight off the press release in its coverage of the Cloud BI stack news: "The work done by RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica demonstrates the power of collaboration among vendors to deliver integrated solutions," said Wayne Eckerson, Research Director at The Data Warehouse Institute. "And by focusing their efforts on delivering BI on the cloud, customers now have tools to help them move quickly with BI projects."
Vertica Projects Leadership, Embraces MapReduce (Sorta)August 11, 2009 With the August announcement of Vertica Analytic Database 3.5, Vertica is laying claim to leadership of the new ADBMS vendors. With its most recent numbers – several dozens of customers are now in production and the company expects to pass 100 this year – the assertion bears thinking about. Driving forward with an aggressive release strategy, Vertica is showing its maturity and increasing ability to challenge the old school leaders like Teradata and Netezza – but with a software-only strategy.
Vertica Gets Flexible, Taps MapReduceAugust 5, 2009 Column-store innovation, MapReduce integration and an information lifecycle management (ILM) roadmap are the high points of yesterday's announcement of the Vertica Analytic Database 3.5. The upgrade, which is slated for general release this fall, promises performance gains and broader applicability, but on the ILM front, Vertica is following rather than leading the competition.
Vertica Enhances Data Storing, Processing in Upcoming DatabaseAugust 4, 2009 Vertica has a number of performance enhancements on the menu for the upcoming version of its column database. When the company releases Vertica 3.5 later this year, users can expect new capabilties around data storage and processing to be included in the mix, as well as support for MapReduce.
Vertica publishes solution for Amazon Amazon Elastic MapReduceAugust 2009 The Amazon Elastic MapReduce service allows users to create massively distributed data processing tasks built on Map and Reduce functions. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud allows users to run any software on a scale out compute platform. EC2 can, for example be used for large scale data analysis by running an analytic database management system. Often data analysis tasks start with a processing phase where unstructured or semi-structured data needs to be processed or transformed before loading into a relational database. In this example we show how to use EMR to process and load a data set from S3 into the Vertica Analytic Database running on EC2.
FlexStore and the rest of Vertica 3.5August 4, 2009 Today, Vertica is announcing its 3.5 release, timed in line with a TDWI conference. Vertica 3.5 is scheduled to go into beta test in mid-August and be released to general availability in early October.
Flurry of Product Announcements Attest to Red-Hot DW MarketMay 27, 2009 The data warehouse (DW) sector is a reliable hotbed of activity. Over the last month, for example, DW vendors Dataupia Corp., Greenplum Inc., Infobright, Netezza Inc., and Vertica all announced new or updated products and services.
The Rise of the Columnar DatabaseMay 19, 2009 Baseline Consulting blog from Evan Levy The more this space matures, the more evident it becomes that analytics is a perfect match for column-based database architectures.
Microsoft, Sybase and Vertica Raise Data Warehouse AnteFebruary 26, 2009 This week has seen not one, not two, but three fairly significant data-warehouse-related product announcements at this week' TDWI event in Las Vegas. That's a testament to the pace of innovation in data warehousing and to the insatiable demand for better, faster, cheaper ways of crunching more numbers.
Vertica tailors its analytic database for VMwareFebruary 23, 2009 Vertica packaged its Vertica Virtualized Analytic Database as a software appliance and unwrapped the bundle on Monday.
"This is almost a no-brainer for us," explains Dave Menninger, vice president of product management and marketing at Vertica. "It's a natural fit for us to operate in a virtualized architecture."
BeyeNetwork: Spotlight - Dave Menninger, VerticaJanuary 21, 2009 Dave Menninger explains how the Vertica Analytic Database lets you do what you never thought was possible due to the performance limitations and high costs of traditional databases and proprietary analytic appliance hardware.
Interview with Mike StonebrakerDecember 15, 2008 What makes Vertica particularly interesting is that Mike Stonebraker, one of the original figures in the relational database world, was involved in the formation of Vertica and Lilian offered to set an interview with him up for the blog.
State of the Database 2008: Vertica, Part 2August 5, 2008 Vertica is a relational database and fully ACID. It uses SQL to access data just as you would any other current database. It also supports JDBC and ODBC. I was not able to find a .Net provider, although that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I just couldn't find it. With better access to documentation ... , I may have had an easier time locating interfaces.
Vertica: Revolution in the Database World?July 2, 2008 As far as Data Warehouse is concerned, there is now a new kid in town, that goes by the name of Vertica. The team that created Vertica is led by the man who can claim to be the most prolific database author in history, Prof Michael Stonebraker.
Vertica ventures into the cloudMay 13, 2008 IT-DirectorVertica has just announced that it is offering its data warehousing technology via the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud.
Vertica moves BI database to Amazon's EC2 cloudMay 12, 2008 Full Table ScanDatabase maker Vertica Systems is moving its technology to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure (EC2), hoping to score customers who want a hosted, pay-as-you-go model for data warehousing and BI (business intelligence)
Vertica enters the cloudMay 12, 2008 Full Table ScanDatabase maker Vertica Systems is moving its technology to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure (EC2)
Jerry Held, Executive Chairman of VerticaFebruary 19, 2008 Business Intelligence NetworkJerry Held talks about the launch of Vertica 2.0, shares the performance advantages of column-oriented databases for handling analytic workloads, and explains how this benefits Vertica customers.
A Sideways GlanceFebruary 19, 2008 Andy on Enterprise SoftwareVertica should be on every vendor short-list for companies with heavy duty analytical requirements which currently stretch performance limits and budgets.
Data warehousing update: VerticaNovember 23, 2007 IT DirectorSo, leaving aside the column versus row argument, what is different about Vertica? The short answer is that it has been designed to support a grid architecture (connected by one or two Gigabit Ethernet interconnects) that exploits many low cost nodes, each with local disk storage, rather than necessarily being implemented on top of a conventional architecture with massively parallel processing at the back-end.
Pathway to bridging bits and bytes with businessNovember 16, 2007 Mass High TechOn his way to the top position at Vertica Systems Inc., Ralph Breslauer made a number of horizontal moves -- across the Atlantic, then across North America and back again. Now, as CEO at the Andover-based developer of database management systems, he's focused on forward and upward.
Start-Ups Mine Database FieldNovember 13, 2007 Wall Street JournalMost databases are based on technology that originated 30 years ago. But change is in the air.
HP Offers Partners High-Performance Data Analysis ApplianceNovember 7, 2007 CRNA deal between Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), Red Hat and the developer of a new high-performance database system will provide HP channel partners with the opportunity to sell pre-configured data analysis appliances built on HP BladeSystem c3000 servers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the three companies said this week.
Vertica: Getting Its Ducks in a ColumnOctober 24, 2007 XconomyAt Vertica, the company blog has a plain, seemingly straightforward name: The Database Column. But it's actually an inside joke—and one that hints at the fundamental innovation that the Andover, MA, startup hopes will catapult it into the ranks of established database makers like Oracle, IBM, and Sybase.
Mixing Old Wine in a New Wine SkinOctober 22, 2007
Business Intelligence Network Blog
"In a briefing by Vertica today, I revisit a number of familiar database concepts, such as column-oriented store and data compression. The list of players involved with Vertica is very impressive, from Michael Stonebraker as founder and CTO to Don Haderle as an advisor."
Michael Stonebraker on why row storage is obsoleteOctober 18, 2007
JavaWorld
JavaWorld's Java Technology Insider, Howard Wen speaks with Dr. Stonebraker about the advantages of switching to column-oriented data storage, and also gets his candid thoughts about the future of data management in the era of Web 2.0.
Pack It InOctober 10, 2007
Bio-IT World
One way to address the data management issue is to store data more efficiently so that it takes up less space and is easier to query. That is the general idea behind a new database from start-up Vertica.
Stonebraker Raises Vertica's DW ProfileAugust 30, 2007 The Intelligent Enterprise Weblog
"I had a long briefing with database legend Michael Stonebraker today, and I feel compelled to share a few highlights of the conversation. Stonebraker is known as a visionary, and he has consistently turned those visions into long-term bets through commercial startups."
10 Cool Cutting-Edge Technologies On the Horizon NowAugust 21, 2007 ComputerworldThe Vertica Analytic Database is one of 10 award-winners and 10 honorable mentions in Computerworld's annual Horizon Awards competition, which recognizes noteworthy technologies emerging from research labs and companies.
Bracing for VerticaJune 14, 2007 DBMS 2 BlogVertica is expected to announce general availability of the Vertica Analytic Database in the Fall, with some compelling benchmarks.
Compression in Columnar Data StoresMarch 21, 2007 DBMS 2.0 Blog
Data compression works better in columnar database architectures than in row-store database architectures, for several reasons.
Data Warehousing: The Appliance of ScienceFebruary 27, 2007 Computer Business Review
A new generation of data warehousing appliances offer promising performance gains and
economics for analyzing terabytes of data. A number of companies, including Vertica,
are working on data warehousing solutions.
Database Visionary Stonebraker Sets SightsFebruary 21, 2007 TDWI.org Radio News
Vertica co-founder and CTO Mike Stonebraker explains why its time for a fresh approach to database architecture, as businesses struggle to provide faster access to growing data stores by more people.
Database Bigwigs Lead Open Source Start-Up
February 14, 2007
Slashdot.org
Slashdot reports: "Michael Stonebraker, who cooked up the Ingres and Postgres database management systems, is back with a stealthy startup called Vertica."
Vertica Bags $16.5 Million
February 12, 2007
Byte & Switch
Although Vertica is still in stealth mode, a company spokeswoman confirms that Vertica is developing a grid-enabled relational database management system that runs on Linux-based hardware.
Feel Free to Single-Task
January 25, 2007
eWeek
Traditional relational databases may not automatically be the best way to store enterprise data,
say academic researchers and the database innovators at Vertica Systems and StreamBase Systems.
Are row-oriented RDBMS obsolete?
January 22, 2007
By Curt Monash
DBMS – Database Management System Services
Dr. Monash comments on Mike Stonebraker's preview of Vertica's column-oriented database.
Warehouse appliances: boom or bust?
December 13, 2005
By Philip Howard
IT-director.com
Mr. Howard provides an overview of the "suppliers of data warehouse appliances," including Vertica.
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