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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...

VerticaPy reaches a milestone at 100 stars

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
December 14, 2022

The Vertica team is happy to share a milestone in our “VerticaPy journey”: We just reached 100 stars in our GitHub repo, and it’s growing every day. (Repo: That’s “repository” for those of you unfamiliar with GitHub.) Repos accumulate stars as an indication of user interest – think of them as bookmarks in a user’s...
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Announcing the Availability of Vertica JavaScript Driver (vertica-nodejs)

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
September 30, 2022

This post is authored by Bill Jones and Danny Mickens. What is Node.js? Wikipedia defines Node.js as an “open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser, which was designed to build scalable network applications”. Consequently, Node.js represents a "JavaScript everywhere" paradigm, unifying web-application...

Break the bias – and predict brake bias

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
September 20, 2022

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) was given the name #BreakTheBias to get us to imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination, a world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive, where difference is valued and celebrated. Together, we can protect women’s equality. At Micro Focus, as...

Vertica’s Fungible Licensing vs. Cloud-only Solutions

Steve 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...

dataGALS – Vertica’s history of supporting women in tech

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
August 9, 2022

When you look around your office, or when you look at the faces on your Zoom calls, do you see an even mix of men and women? If yours is like most organizations in the technology sector, women occupy only about 25% of the jobs, according to a recent CIO Magazine article. That stat is...

What’s needed for a happy software dev team in data analytics?

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
July 6, 2022

For an organization to excel at data analytics, the IT team needs to coordinate a number of different disciplines and personnel with experience in those disciplines. This usually includes data analysts, data engineers, and, increasingly, data scientists. The data engineering discipline is sometimes thought of as the plumbing that, like pipes in a house, delivers...

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...

Vertica for Time Series Analytics and IoT

Steve 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

Steve 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...

Take the Baseball Data Analysis Challenge with Vertica Machine Learning

Jim Harris, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager
April 7, 2022

Today is Opening Day of the 2022 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. I was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised as a fan of the Boston Red Sox, who play at historic Fenway Park, just six or so miles from our Vertica headquarters in Cambridge. Baseball data is mostly transaction data describing the statistical events...