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Steve Sarsfield

Steven Sarsfield

Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem

In addition to his years at Micro Focus, Steve has had thought leadership roles at Cambridge Sematics - AnzoGraph, Talend, Trillium Software and IBM. Steve's writings have produced a popular data governance blog, articles on Medium.com and a book entitled the Data Governance Imperative. Steve continues to offer insight and opinion in the world of data governance and analytics.

Vertica’s Fungible Licensing vs. Cloud-only Solutions

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
August 29, 2022

A few years ago, I worked as an evangelist for a midsize software company, and sometimes had to ask my boss to fund a project that hadn’t been anticipated in the quarterly plan. As long as my reasons for the change were sound, he was usually accommodating, telling me, “Steve, money is fungible.” He simply...
Vertica Version 12

Announcing Vertica Version 12

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
June 6, 2022

Vertica is pleased to announce version 12 of our unified analytics platform. Since the introduction of Vertica version 11 around June last year, several releases have gone out. Our release cycle has become more continuous, and the Vertica engineering team packs a lot of capabilities into every release. What this means is that a LOT...

Vertica for Time Series Analytics and IoT

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
May 3, 2022

When you want to make a prediction – stocking levels for items in your store, predicting energy usage so supply is ready, or being proactive about equipment failures – those predictions often rely on time-series data, a series of data points measuring the same signal or process through time. By analyzing that data, companies can...
Unified Analytics and Unified Storage Example

Unified Analytics and Unified Storage

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
April 19, 2022

How data analytics plus object store handles a classic problem Today, VAST Data announced a partnership and integration with Vertica. The partnership combines a popular and proven analytical database with a hot new up-and-coming object storage company. This relationship is meaningful for the future of analytics, because the future of analytics is hybrid clouds. Let...

Vertica Sponsors Charge Across America – A Cross Country Race for Electric Vehicles

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
November 1, 2021

Building on the successful partnership with Jaguar Racing, Vertica is sponsoring Charge Across America, a cross-country race of electric vehicles (EVs) that kicked off yesterday in New York City, on Halloween. Five teams of drivers are racing their EVs across the country over 10 days with a final stop in Los Angeles. This event is...

Leveraging Cloud Object Store Technologies for On-premises Analytics

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
March 11, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce that our team will now support Vertica in Eon Mode for Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage). Our developers have verified the combination. It addresses a new trend in analytics, namely the use of object store, both on-premises and in the clouds, as the primary storage medium. When you...

Live Aggregate Projections with Vertica

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
July 1, 2014

The Dragline release of Vertica offers an exciting new feature that is unique in the world of big data analytics platforms. We now offer Live Aggregate projections as part of the platform. The impact is that you can really fly through certain types of big data analytics that typically grind down any analytics system.

Enter the FlexZone – Let’s talk ETL

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
January 30, 2014

In December, HP released version 7 of the Vertica analytics platform which includes, among others, a great new feature called Vertica Flex Zone (Flex Zone). Flex Zone enables you to quickly and easily load, explore and analyze some forms of semi-structured data. It eliminates the need for coding-intensive schemas to be defined or applied before...