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Vertica now available as a managed service from Full 360

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
November 11, 2020

The Vertica partner ecosystem is steadily growing, with a who provide help with implementation, professional services, and value added reselling. This means that if you’re new to Vertica, or working to create your own data platform for the first time, you’ll find the right expertise within our ecosystem. Now, we’re happy to report that Full...

DX Radio Episode 3: Climate Corporation and Digital Agriculture

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 29, 2020

I have the honor of hosting the latest episode of DX Radio. It features The Climate Corporation’s Daniel McCaffrey, Vice president of Data and Analytics, and Erich Hochmuth, Big Data Architect Engineer, as they explore the digital transformation of farming.
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Vertica in Good Health: Ingesting, Securing, and Analyzing Healthcare Data

Bryan Herger, Vertica Big Data Solution Architect at Micro Focus
September 29, 2020

Electronic Medical Records and new personal healthcare technology, particularly medical devices, generate a huge amount of data. Organizations including Cerner and Philips Healthcare rely on Vertica for . How can Vertica help you analyze this data? Vertica excels at data ingest and provides hundreds of built-in SQL and analytic functions with broad integration with programming...
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Prepare for Your Multicloud Future Today

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
September 17, 2020

You only have to read as far as the subtitle of the to understand that more and more organizations are adopting a multi-cloud strategy – cloud spend is rising as organizations adopt multi-cloud strategies and put more workloads and data in the cloud. This ninth annual report, based on 750 global cloud decision-makers, revealed that...

Constellation Research Report Finds Vertica 10 a Leading Choice

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
September 14, 2020

A few pages into a 10, produced by Constellation Research, principle analyst Doug Henschen summarizes the top new capabilities of Vertica 10 like this: In short, the Vertica team has steadily evolved the product to keep pace with the demands of organizations that seek to do the following: Unify diverse data sources and data types,...
Risk Analysis

How security risk is making sense to the corner office

Ken Pfeil, Chief Security Architect
September 10, 2020

As Big Data continues to get bigger, data volume is only one aspect of the expansion. Just as critical for CDOs and business leaders to get a handle on are the growing sources of data. Data sources are expanding, and becoming important as businesses look to capture data from every conceivable end-point – from IoT...
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What’s the Deal with Vertica TCO?

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
August 26, 2020

Recently, a colleague of mine was trying to express why Vertica had such a low total cost of ownership (TCO). It’s not obvious. Our customers rave about the fast return on investment. We have a half dozen excellent case studies from third-parties showing . But why? . Vertica isn’t free. Yet our TCO is lower....

Vertica outperforms competing cloud analytical platforms in third-party benchmark study

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
August 7, 2020

Vertica proven to be faster, more affordable, and more scalable in terms of concurrency in third-party benchmark over Amazon Redshift and an unnamed data cloud platform Choosing a cloud-based big data analytics platform for your organization’s analytical needs is seldom an easy task, and it can’t be the first step on your big data journey....

The Unified Analytics Warehouse Reaches your Data, Wherever it Lives

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
July 23, 2020

You may have noticed something interesting about the next generation enterprise data warehouse (EDW) vendors. They’re all pushing to ensure all data moves to the same place for analytics purposes, which of course means their particular data store. This is very worrisome to me because it involves two levels of lock in: 1) underlying infrastructure...
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“awk” sed Grep, “whoami?”. Time CC if bash makes head or tail and sort > plain.txt and make us API

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
July 13, 2020

Things to do whilst confined to barracks due to COVID-19 For those who know me well, having worked in IT for four decades, will know that I can be a bit of a Luddite when it comes to new-fangled technology. Give me a character-based, green-screen PuTTY application over any pointy-clicky interface.  Let me use vsql...
Unified Data Analytics Warehouse

How can you get the value out of Hadoop that you were promised?

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
June 29, 2020

Since Hadoop’s initial release 14 years ago, untold volumes of data have been stored in HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). Spread across a virtual landscape of data-inspired organizations, those data lakes are wide, and deep. Companies have made tremendous investments in Hadoop over the years, and data continues to pour into their data lakes. You...
Community Edition

Join the Powerful Vertica Big Data Community Open House with Free Community Edition

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
June 25, 2020

What comes to mind when you hear the word “community”? A village, a neighborhood? Maybe sidewalks where people say hello, where they have a few things in common – perhaps an identity, sometimes a sense of pride, definitely a sense of belonging. We’re social creatures, so being part of a community means sharing experiences, too,...