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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...

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...

What we learned at HIMSS21

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Industry Product Marketing Manager
September 15, 2021

Vertica was a first-time sponsor at August’s HIMSS21 show in Las Vegas, the largest annual North American healthcare technology conference. While the show followed strict health and safety precautions to protect guests, attendance at the show was still quite light compared to what I’ve heard the show normally expects. Nevertheless, the conversations we had at...

How to run Vertica CE in Windows 10 using Docker

Alexandr Skorobogatov
September 14, 2021

Sometimes we want to test a new version of Vertica. In the past, the best way to do that was to use a Vertica Community Edition (CE) virtual machine. But starting with Vertica version 10.1, there is an easier way to achieve this. There is an official Docker image for the latest Vertica CE version...

Vertica in Leader’s Circle of GigaOm Radar Report for Data Warehouses

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
August 12, 2021

For the second consecutive year, GigaOm has positioned Vertica in the “leader’s circle” of its Radar Report for Data Warehouses. In the report – “a forward-looking analysis that plots the relative value and progression of vendor solutions along multiple axes based on strategy and execution” – GigaOm scored Vertica with all “exceptional” or “capable” ratings...

Announcing Vertica Version 11

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
August 11, 2021

Vertica Unified Analytics Platform version 11 delivers GA support for Docker containers and Kubernetes, advanced machine learning and time series capabilities, and increased analytical performance.

First annual “Data Disruptors Awards” caps Vertica Unify 2021

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
July 27, 2021

“Vertica has been powering the world’s data disruptors for a decade, including companies that have created new industries, and have had an impact on the environment, and on the health of humans and animals.” Those were the opening comments by Joy King, Vertica’s VP of Product and Go-to-Market Strategy, at Thursday morning’s opening session for...

Vertica Unify 2021 – Day 2 keynote spotlights a noble cause

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
July 21, 2021

At Vertica Unify 2021, the focus this week has been on the techniques and best practices around data analytics. Naturally. There’s a lot of technology to cover in this space, and we’re delighted to have so many of the best and brightest minds in virtual attendance, helping us deliver, explain, and demonstrate these things. And,...