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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,...
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Making a Difference with Analytics – Inspiring Human Interest Stories

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
June 18, 2020

I wake up before the sun rises, head to my home office, parse through the emails that have flowed in overnight, and look at my calendar to prepare for my day. I fill daylight hours with meetings, research, more meetings, writing … and more meetings. Sometimes, it is exhausting and even a little overwhelming. So,...

Award Winning – Vertica Proves It

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
June 12, 2020

June has been quite a month of industry recognition for Vertica and its customers. Fresh off earning top leadership position in , Vertica has once again been named to this year’s , a special list that salutes today’s top companies in data management and analysis. Vertica Named to DBTA 100 Companies that Matter Most in...

Let Business Intelligence and Data Science Coexist!

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

Business intelligence and data science frequently compete for resources, and BI got there first. Vertica in Eon Mode subclusters can help them coexist.

Channeling Greatness with Vertica

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
May 4, 2020

Micro Focus was recently featured on The Channel Company’s list of The Coolest System and Platform Companies of the 2020 Big Data 100. What makes Micro Focus so cool?
King of the Data Warehouse Mountain

Vertica Achieves Top Spot in GigaOm Radar Report for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
April 24, 2020

Vertica secured the top spot, scoring consistently high rankings across the key criteria and evaluation metrics compared to 12 top competitors in the GigaOm Radar...
Who's awesome? BDC is awesome!

Top 10 Highlights from the Virtual Vertica BDC 2020

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
April 14, 2020

While it was a difficult decision to take the virtual, the registration numbers, session reviews, and overall feedback confirmed that this was our most successful BDC ever! If you did not have a chance to or missed any of the sessions, no worries. All sessions were recorded and PDFs of the presentations are available ....
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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...
goldfinch songbird in a field of thistle in Wales

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,...
Scale to the Moon - 7 petabytes

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...