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Strong Winds of Change at Chief Data & Analytics Officers Event

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
August 14, 2019

Last week, Vertica sponsored the Chief Data & Analytics Officer event in Chicago. As a first-time sponsor, we were cautiously optimistic that we could meet with data and analytics leaders that were, according to event organizer IQPC, “…on the forefront of capitalizing on data and analytics in the enterprise as the volume, availability, and complexity...
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Delivering personalized retail promotions using AI and predictive analytics

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
July 31, 2019

SO1.ai helps retailers leverage customer basket and loyalty data to deliver smart, automated promotional decisions at scale across millions of customers. The solution is fully automated and designed to fit a retailer’s specific business goals (i.e. revenues, profit optimization, customer satisfaction or brand sales). Want to learn more about the S01.ai solution?
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Data-Centric Security Rules

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
June 27, 2019

I just attended the Cybersecurity Summit in Dallas for the first time. I spoke a little on a small panel with a couple of customers about Voltage SecureData and Format Preserving Encryption (FPE). Then I got to go to other presentations and learned a lot. Probably the number one presentation that stuck with me, was...
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DBTA Data Summit – The Rise of DataOps

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
June 4, 2019

The recent DBTA Data Summit provided a lot to think about. I did a short talk in the “Analytics in Action” track about how data analysts, architects and engineers can turn the endless waves of disruption we keep getting hit with into opportunities to boost bottom line. There were some very cool talks by other...
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IOT World 2019 – Backing Up the Buzz

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
May 24, 2019

Connected and autonomous vehicles. Smart Cities. Smart Buildings. Predictive maintenance. Lots of robots. This must be IOT World 2019, where more than 12,000 IOT enthusiasts joined at the Santa Clara Convention Center to learn if IOT had “jumped the shark” or if we are just now learning how businesses can ultimately gain advantage from trillions...
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Is this Wine Good? Wine Quality with Machine Learning

Christina Neble, Senior Partner Business Manager
May 22, 2019

How can you really tell if a wine is good? It’s a commonly known fact that the price of wine does not have a direct correlation to the quality or taste. What if we use some analytics to help make a clear determination if a wine is “good?” My friend and Data Scientist, Badr Ouali,...

DATAx Gaming Analytics Summit in San Francisco

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
May 8, 2019

According to a recent report from Newzoo and Arm, the Mobile Gaming market is expected to top $100 billion by 2021, up from $56 billion in 2017. As the global adoption of smartphones continues to expand, so too does the use of mobile and online gaming. To capitalize on this growth, game developers are looking...

See You at IoT World Conference Next Month

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
April 25, 2019

Are you attending the IoT World Conference in Santa Clara from May 13-16th? Come by booth #1254 to hear why more and more companies, including medical device manufacturers, wearable product developers, network service providers, and manufacturing intelligence software companies, are turning to Vertica to manage their growing volumes of IoT data. Vertica is purpose-built for...
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Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Start-Ups on the Fast Track

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
April 16, 2019

Tuesday, 4/30/19 Workbar Back Bay 6:00-8:00 PM Are you a data-driven start-up that makes decisions based on insight from high-performance analytics and machine learning? Would you like to choose the best analytical tool/ML for the job beyond limited open source offerings, but don’t have the budget? Do you want to hear best practices on how...
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Data Innovation Summit 2019

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
April 9, 2019

Having attended the Big Data Analytics – Europe event in Rotterdam on the 12th March, on 14th/15th, Captain Mark Whalley and fellow Captains from Vertica Airways paid a flying visit to the Data Innovation Summit in Stockholm. Whilst there, they crewed the Vertica booth answering questions from passengers and visitors and assuring them that their...
Southern Data Science Conference, April 11, 12

Join Vertica at the Southern Data Science Conference in Atlanta

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
April 8, 2019

Next week – April 11-12 – Atlanta, GA will host the Southern Data Science Conference (SDSC). Held at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Midtown, this event is geared to data scientists converging to hear from the industry’s best and brightest minds from top companies and research institutes. More than 400 attendees will attend two days of...
Save the Date, Vertica Big Data Conference, March 30 - April 2

Save the Date for the Vertica Big Data Conference

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
March 27, 2019

The next Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC) will be taking place March 30 – April 2, 2020, hosted at the brand-new Encore Boston Harbor Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts! In our very crowded and noisy market, there are more tradeshows and conferences than there are days in the year. So why should anyone be excited about...