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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...

Be inspired by the best – DataGals Panel at Vertica Unify 2021

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
April 27, 2021

Over the years, I’ve had the honor to work with a variety of women who have a passion for software development, product management, data science, and analytics. These are all very technical career paths, and as women, we know we’ll be in the minority, often the only woman in the room or on the team....

Sharing Data without Sharing Revenue

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
April 5, 2021

As data continues to become of one the most valuable intangible assets on the balance sheet, monetizing that data is a topic in every board room. There are many ways to monetize data, including data brokering – a well-known concept in most industries:  organizations sell customer data to others, primarily for advertising, email marketing, cross-selling,...

More than Just a New Name – Vertica Unify 2021 is Now Open to Free Registration

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
March 31, 2021

Since the early 1990s, the term “Big Data” has been widely used, even as the definition has changed from gigabytes to petabytes and beyond. For Vertica, the focus is not just about data, or data clouds, or data lakes, but instead, it’s about the power and the potential of a unified analytics—driven world. Data will...
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BizAcuity Banks on Vertica for Blazing-fast Online Gaming Analytics

Hemendhira Muralidharan, Senior Product Marketing Manager
March 22, 2021

The rise of online gaming is due in part to its ability to attract users of all social classes. According to Reportlinker (Jan 2021), "Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Gambling estimated at US$443.2 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$647.9 Billion by 2027, growing at...
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Telecom Companies: To Cloud or not to Cloud? Is that even a question?

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Industry Product Marketing Manager
March 17, 2021

By this point, probably millions of words on the Internet have been dedicated to articulating the benefits and drawbacks of the public cloud. As the title of this post suggests, I’m not here to convince you one way or the other: The benefits of the public cloud are real (as you probably know), and if...

Aptus Data Labs Partnership with Vertica Provides Unified Data Lake Solutions

Hemendhira Muralidharan, Senior Product Marketing Manager
March 15, 2021

Big data analytics is driving the revolution in artificial intelligence (AI). Today’s AI applications are evolving faster than ever, transforming the way customers and enterprises do business and add value. According to IDC (2020), “software is the largest AI technology group delivering roughly 80% of all AI revenue. Most of the software revenue comes from...

Leveraging Cloud Object Store Technologies for On-premises Analytics

Steve Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
March 11, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce that our team will now support Vertica in Eon Mode for Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage). Our developers have verified the combination. It addresses a new trend in analytics, namely the use of object store, both on-premises and in the clouds, as the primary storage medium. When you...

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.

Constellation Research Names Vertica to ShortList for Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-cloud Analytical Databases

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
February 24, 2021

What a week of industry recognition for Vertica. Today, Vertica announced that it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Hybrid-Cloud and Multicloud Analytical Relational Database Management Systems in Q1 2021. What is the Constellation ShortList? According to Constellation Research, the ShortList focuses on RDBMSs that can deliver the ultimate in analytical query performance even...

Do you really want to outsource your data and analytics?

Marc Heimlich, Director, Technology Sector, Vertica
February 23, 2021

As a nine year veteran of the Big Data business, I’ve seen the shift from transactional data stores like Postgres, SQL Server and Oracle to OLAP offerings from the likes of Greenplum, Aster, Vertica, and ParAccel, to the rise and fall of Hadoop Data Lakes, and now the shift to cloud, object storage, and serverless...

Vertica named by InfoWorld as one of 8 databases supporting in-database machine learning

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
February 22, 2021

A Feb. 17 article in InfoWorld names Vertica as one of eight analytical platforms that offer in-database machine learning “right where your data resides.” Authored by contributing editor and reviewer Martin Heller, the article validates two of Vertica’s long-held principles: flexibility in ML modeling and training, and the ability to analyze data without transmitting it...