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OpenText Vertica 23.3 – the Smarter Data Lakehouse

Posted July 31, 2023 by Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager

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Unveiling the Most Recent Version of the Vertica Grafana Data Source Plugin

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 12, 2023

With over 380K downloads, the Vertica Grafana Data Source plugin just got an upgrade! The plugin was migrated from the deprecated older Grafana toolkit to align with Grafana's new Create-Plugin tool. This accelerates the plugin development with their modern build set up that requires no additional configuration. Additionally, the Vertica SQL Go driver received an...
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Setting Session Authorization to Troubleshoot

Sruthi Anumula, Senior Database Support Engineer
September 29, 2023

There are possible scenarios in which a dbadmin would want to run queries as another user to troubleshoot or test. You can use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to impersonate another user and run queries. Let's understand this with an example. Here we create a user named test, resource pool named userpool, and make this a default...

New Vertica Accelerator course puts your SaaS-based data analytics to work, fast

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
December 20, 2021

We’re happy to announce a new addition to Vertica Academy’s array of free, self-paced courses designed to put you in the driver’s seat with your data analytics initiatives. The all-new Vertica Accelerator Quick Start course has gone live today on Vertica Academy. If you’re looking for a fast track to highly performant data analytics, and...
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Going Beyond a Data Lakehouse

David Sprogis, Director of Product Management
December 15, 2021

The way things get named in this industry can be pretty odd.  A lot of people have been hearing noise about how cool a “Data Lakehouse” is since it combines the power of a data lake with the power of a data warehouse. When I think of a lakehouse, I think of a great place...
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All-new Vertica Advisor report designed to improve health of customers’ analytics

Amy Miller, VP for Customer Success
December 10, 2021

As Vertica’s Vice President for Customer Success, I wanted to let you know that the Vertica Advisor report has been recently updated to help Vertica customers understand their database and usage, and to get the most from their analytical investments. If you are not familiar with the Vertica Advisor report, it is a Database Health...

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Embed analytics in applications to transform your technology business

Steve Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
November 30, 2021

At AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, I’ve had several conversations with developers who’ve stopped by the booth. One of the questions I’ve asked them all is, “Are you embedding analytics into your application?”

Vertica Accelerator – Ease of Use Plus Control

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
November 12, 2021

In case you missed it, Vertica recently released Vertica Accelerator, our unified analytics platform delivered as a service. There are two main questions that people ask when hearing about this announcement. The first is: does it have all the same features Vertica has, or is it a scaled-down version in some way? The answer to...
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Survey says businesses are implementing predictive analytics, but not without challenges

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
November 10, 2021

  To discover today’s cloud and data analytics trends across North-Western Europe, Vertica has surveyed 120 data experts from industry-leading organizations. This infographic provides insights into how businesses leverage data analytics and what challenges they face when implementing predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning capabilities. What are the top analytics projects organizations have been...

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Don’t take your foot off the electrons

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
November 8, 2021

With blazingly fast query performance, and access to 700 in-database functions, Vertica has meant that Jaguar Race Engineers and Strategists have been able to glean important insights into the data and make critical performance adjustments to the powertrain, suspension, steering, braking and power management that were just not possible prior to the introduction of Vertica.

Vertica Sponsors Charge Across America – A Cross Country Race for Electric Vehicles

Steve Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
November 1, 2021

Building on the successful partnership with Jaguar Racing, Vertica is sponsoring Charge Across America, a cross-country race of electric vehicles (EVs) that kicked off yesterday in New York City, on Halloween. Five teams of drivers are racing their EVs across the country over 10 days with a final stop in Los Angeles. This event is...
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Vertica and Alteryx Designer

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 29, 2021

We are very excited to announce our end-to-end analytics of Vertica with Alteryx Designer. You can now process and analyze your entire dataset easily and quickly. Vertica enables you to run your analytics in the database from the models that you create in Alteryx Designer. You can create a predictive model in Alteryx Designer and...

Beware of the Black Box Bundle

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

When Vertica was acquired by Hewlett Packard, we were told that we needed to change our messaging about commodity hardware. HP didn’t feel comfortable with the phrase, because it implied that underlying infrastructure was not a key differentiator. But as a true software company who designed every line of code to be optimized for infrastructure...

Vertica is in the G2 Leaders’ Corner… once again

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
October 13, 2021

When it comes to technology, the business world doesn’t have time for popularity contests. Technology that doesn’t cut it falls by the wayside, and gets replaced with whatever helps a business achieve its goals. The Vertica team is happy to be part of our customers’ successes, whether we’ve helped them replace outmoded or poor-performing data...
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SaaS, or Self-Managed Vertica? The Choice is Yours for Unified Analytics

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
October 6, 2021

Accurate and actionable analytics is the goal of every organization. In large enterprises with multiple business divisions, the CIO team often struggles with a wide and often uncontrolled set of analytics tools and repositories leading to multiple versions of the “truth”. When an Executive Leadership team is confronted with different recommendations from different departments based...