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Jeff Healey

Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus

Jeff leads marketing for Vertica, the industry’s unified analytics platform purpose built to manage massive volumes of data at extreme scale with the highest levels of performance. With more than 25 years of high-tech marketing experience and deep knowledge of product marketing go-to-market planning and execution, Jeff has previously led product marketing for Axeda Corporation (now PTC), the leading Internet of Things platform with millions of connected assets under management. Prior to Axeda, Jeff held product marketing, customer success, and lead editorial roles at MathWorks, Macromedia (now Adobe), Sybase (now SAP), and The Boston Globe.

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OpenText Welcomes Micro Focus Customers, Partners, and Employees

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
January 31, 2023

OpenText CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea blogs on how the Micro Focus acquisition expands OpenText's mission to help enterprise professionals secure their operations, gain more insight into their information, and better manage an increasingly hybrid and complex digital fabric. Read his article here.

GigaOm Radar for Data Warehouses Recognizes Vertica as Leader

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
January 17, 2023

With the excitement in our industry regarding the emergence of data lakehouses, there’s a good chance that you are planning to modernize or even “replatform” your incumbent data warehouse to meet an ever-evolving variety of analytical use cases. Many vendors, like Vertica, have transformed the original concept of data warehouses with groundbreaking innovations like massively...

Customers in the Spotlight at Vertica Unify ’22

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
May 31, 2022

It’s hard to believe that it has been almost a decade since we held our inaugural Vertica Big Data Conference, back in 2013. At that time, our goal was to hold an annual user conference with a few simple yet guiding principles – no sales or marketing pitches, hold the event in Boston, and line...

Vertica Wins the Gold in Bloor Market Update

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
May 3, 2022

Know Your Options for Analytical Databases and Data Warehouses For CDOs and CIOs, there have never been more options to choose from when deciding where to run their analytical workloads. Analytical databases and data warehouses are two popular options – with the data warehouse market experiencing 10% annual growth and many new entrants* – particularly...

Breaking Through with Data – Climate wins Predictive Analytics Innovation Award

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
April 5, 2022

There are many impressive stories of data-driven organizations that use Vertica to derive near-instant analytical insight from troves of data. And many of those analytical use cases have a positive impact on our lives. But, there’s always that one profound story that makes us pause, that fills us with hope for how analytics and machine...

More G2 recognition from our Vertica customers!

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
January 24, 2022

We don’t mean to gloat. Really. It’s just that the G2 Winter 2022 badges are out, and since our last round of badges from G2, we have received a couple of new ones. Those include the “Fastest Implementation – Enterprise,” and the “High Performer” categories. It’s good to know that actual customer experience with Vertica...
Vertica Data Analytics and Business Trends

Survey says businesses are implementing predictive analytics, but not without challenges

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
November 10, 2021

  To discover today’s cloud and data analytics trends across North-Western Europe, Vertica has surveyed 120 data experts from industry-leading organizations. This infographic provides insights into how businesses leverage data analytics and what challenges they face when implementing predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning capabilities. What are the top analytics projects organizations have been...

Vertica in Leader’s Circle of GigaOm Radar Report for Data Warehouses

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
August 12, 2021

For the second consecutive year, GigaOm has positioned Vertica in the “leader’s circle” of its Radar Report for Data Warehouses. In the report – “a forward-looking analysis that plots the relative value and progression of vendor solutions along multiple axes based on strategy and execution” – GigaOm scored Vertica with all “exceptional” or “capable” ratings...

Partners Showcase Solutions at Vertica Unify ’21

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
June 21, 2021

Registrations for Vertica Unify ’21 are rapidly climbing as we anticipate thousands of data experts to convene for the analytics event of the year. Vertica customers have long adopted a "best tool for the job" approach – and that goes beyond choosing Vertica to accelerate analytics and machine learning at scale. Success often requires our...

EMA Awards Vertica as Top Vendor for Hyperperformance with Multi-Structured Data in Radar Report on Unified Analytics Warehouses

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
June 4, 2021

If you could describe in just one word what Vertica provides better than any other unified analytics platform on the market, what would that word be? Read any of our case studies, watch any of our Data Disruptor Webcasts, or attend Vertica Unify ’21, and, chances are, you’ll agree that that one word is performance....

Vertica 10.1.1 Goes Beyond Analytics with Support for Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, and Containers

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
April 30, 2021

With each release of Vertica, you can always count on major enhancements and features to help you address each step of the predictive analytics process with even more analytical functions and end-to-end machine learning capabilities. While Vertica 10.1.1 includes support for the latest version of PMML, 4.4, some useful new analytical functions, and a new...

Constellation Research Names Vertica to ShortList for Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-cloud Analytical Databases

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
February 24, 2021

What a week of industry recognition for Vertica. Today, Vertica announced that it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Hybrid-Cloud and Multicloud Analytical Relational Database Management Systems in Q1 2021. What is the Constellation ShortList? According to Constellation Research, the ShortList focuses on RDBMSs that can deliver the ultimate in analytical query performance even...