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Vertica Version 10 Launches Today!

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 31, 2020

There’s , on the first day of the – a major new version of Vertica blasts off! Vertica version 10 soars straight into the greatest deployment flexibility of any analytical data warehouse on the market. This fast and extremely scalable platform gives you more power than ever to get industry-changing analytics, including even more advanced...
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COVID-19 Birdsong

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
March 27, 2020

For a number of years, when presenting one of my favourite Vertica demos, in which I talk about , I would typically start with a short, 30-second video clip to get the audience’s attention. The inspiration for this clip came about when I was staring aimlessly into the blue sky above my home in Pennard...
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New hands-on training at Vertica Academy takes users deep into Vertica Essentials

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
March 12, 2020

Since was launched in September 2019, this versatile online training portal has acquired more than 1,500 registered users (as of beginning of March), and that number is growing daily. Users are finding answers to tough questions that arise as they explore the complex world of big data analytics. They’re finding self-paced courses, webinars and certifications,...
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How Vertica uses limitless big data analytics to blow past small-scale vendors

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
March 2, 2020

As time moves on, so does data.  What was once big is now small, and what was once considered fast is now not even good enough. Ten years ago, Vertica found its place in the market with New Economy companies who were not just disrupting traditional industries but creating new ones.  Social media exploded, wearables...
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Hands-on Class Makes Parallel Data Management Theories Concrete

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
February 5, 2020

Parallel data management in databases is a tough thing to learn when you’re a student. It can feel like another one of those esoteric theories, and it never quite sticks. Now, there’s a cool class at Brandeis University that brings those lofty theories down to earth, and gives students a real chance to see how...

Announcing the Availability of Grafana Data Source Plugin for Vertica

Stephen Crossman, SW Engineering(Systems) - Partner Engineering
February 3, 2020

The Vertica-Grafana-Plugin is finally here! Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics. Grafana has a repository where plugins are available for many Apps and Data Sources and they promote the development of plugins from the Grafana community. We are pleased to announce the availability of the vertica-grafana-datasource, a community developed...
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Vertica’s Eon Mode – New Architecture for Flexibility, Performance, and Savings

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
January 21, 2020

Vertica was born in the age of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) appliance, in 2005. At the time, the EDW appliance was a great idea – a relatively simple bundle of hardware and software. You plugged it in, and it worked. This single box came with a lot of services, too. But it also came...
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The Kafka Convergence

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
January 20, 2020

Apache Kafka seems to be everywhere these days. I’m feeling a bit surrounded by Kafka right now, in fact, like I’m at the center of a convergence of the planets, and data flowing through Kafka is the gravitational pull. Let me give you an idea of what I mean. So, Vertica just announced the release...
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Learn How Much Money Vertica Can Save Your Business

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

The ROI for software systems is notoriously tough to pin down. The effort to integrate new software with systems already in place often adds time and labor costs to the upfront investment. What’s more, if there is any cultural resistance to change, then the ROI can be impossible to measure for months or years, or...
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Tracking Santa’s Flight Plan

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
December 20, 2019

You probably all know of my love for (or more precisely a plethora of them) and Vertica. Although I started flight tracking around 2012, my interest grew when I saw this from NATS (National Air Traffic Services) - a series of great video clips from UK, Middle East, Europe and North Atlantic Though at this...
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Top 5 Reasons Why You Win Big with Data at the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
December 9, 2019

A few years ago, we held a user conference for our growing Vertica community. However, we underestimated its success – selling out the inaugural event because we had booked a venue that couldn’t accommodate the interest of hundreds of customers, prospects, and partners for what turned out to be Boston’s biggest and best Big Data...
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Is Your Future Cloudy? This Buyer’s Guide Offers Clarity

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
November 25, 2019

When I started at Vertica about seven years ago, I was met by anxious sales people warning me that (HDFS, specifically) was going to completely replace the , as we knew it. And we should be very concerned. That was 2012, a year that I first encountered the lovable elephant and met swarms of Hadoop...