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Vertica 11 announced at Unify 2021: Delivering on vision of Unified Analytics

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
July 20, 2021

Introduced by Joy King, Vertica’s VP of Product & GTM Strategy, Colin Mahony, SVP and General Manager of Vertica, kicked off today’s Vertica Unify 2021 by explaining Vertica’s founding philosophy and sharing “some of the advancements we’ve made most recently, as well as the direction we’re going in future.” That included the announcement of Vertica...
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Quick Tip: MC Adds a New Feedback Button

Jim Knicely, Vertica Field Chief Technologist
July 15, 2021

Do you love Vertica and want to let us know, or want to provide some constructive criticism? Well, now you can easily do that. Starting in Vertica 10.1.x, Management Console added a new Feedback Button which lets you submit a star rating and free-text comments to Vertica. The button displays vertically at the bottom-right of...

Vertica-as-a-Service: Advanced analytics just got a little easier

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
June 15, 2021

Anytime business software can provide greater ease-of-use, it leads to better business outcomes at a faster pace. What could be better than that? How about analytics-as-a-service, built on a cloud-native architecture running in your AWS account, and leveraging your own negotiated pricing and committed spend? Add the full suite of advanced analytics, in-database machine learning,...

Kubernetes StatefulSets Makes Containerization of Vertica a Piece of Cake

Paige, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
June 2, 2021

Containerization is an idea that seems tasty and wonderful at first. Automated deployment on any platform is a particularly enticing advantage, especially for Vertica, a database with infrastructure freedom as a core principle. Fast deployment without human intervention makes containers incredibly useful, especially in environments that require dynamic scaling. And containers are small, quick to...

Vertica 10.1.1 Goes Beyond Analytics with Support for Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, and Containers

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
April 30, 2021

With each release of Vertica, you can always count on major enhancements and features to help you address each step of the predictive analytics process with even more analytical functions and end-to-end machine learning capabilities. While Vertica 10.1.1 includes support for the latest version of PMML, 4.4, some useful new analytical functions, and a new...

New Version 0.5 of VerticaPy

Badr Ouali, Head of Data Science
March 1, 2021

Last week, the VerticaPy team released a new version v0.5.0 focused on hyperparameter tuning, time series analysis and model explainability.
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Vertica 10.1 Rockets Data Analytics to the Next Level

Paige, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
February 1, 2021

As of February 1, 2021, the new version of Vertica rockets analytical database technology to the next level. Vertica 10.1 continues to show our commitment to broad, powerful in-database machine learning by including our most requested algorithm – XGBoost. Management Console makes administering Vertica in the cloud even easier. Support for complex data types in...
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New VerticaPy Features Added – Just in Time for the Holidays

Badr Ouali, Head of Data Science
December 18, 2020

The team behind VerticaPy wishes you happy holidays and a happy new year from Boston, and from Grenoble in the French Alps! Make 2021 your year to operationalize Machine Learning at Scale with Vertica and Python.    VerticaPy is a Python library that exposes scikit-like functionality for conducting data science projects in your Vertica database....
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Vertica in Eon Mode Now Supports Scality for Even Greater Choice

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
December 8, 2020

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Vertica in Eon Mode for Scality RING S3 object storage on the HPE Apollo 4000 platform
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Vertica 10 SP1 Takes Data Analytics to the Next Level

Kevin Xu, Information Developer
September 21, 2020

The first service pack for Vertica 10 brings even more incredible new features to the most flexible and scalable data analytics warehouse on the market.
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What’s the Deal with Vertica TCO?

Paige, 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 Vertica’s ROI. But why? Open source options are free. Vertica isn’t free....

Perfect Vision 20/20 – Vertica’s 20 coolest features to see in 2020

Mark, Manager, Vertica Education
June 4, 2020

I was asked some time ago whether Vertica was just another SQL database.  I could have just said “Yes” and left it at that. However, my passion for Vertica would never have allowed me to leave it at that.  Rewording a famous UK High Street retailer’s tag-line, “This is not just any SQL database, this...