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

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...

The Climate Corporation awarded for outstanding AI/ML: We’re all winners with sustainable agriculture

The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer, aims to help all the world’s farmers sustainably increase their productivity with digital tools. The Climate FieldView™ platform provides farmers with a comprehensive, connected suite of digital tools aimed at mitigating risk and optimizing farm productivity. As Vertica’s customer references manager, I gather stories around what our users...

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

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,...

EMA Awards Vertica as Top Vendor for Hyperperformance with Multi-Structured Data in Radar Report on Unified Analytics Warehouses

If you could describe in just one word what Vertica provides better than any other unified analytics platform on the market, what would that word be? Read any of our case studies, watch any of our Data Disruptor Webcasts, or attend Vertica Unify ’21, and, chances are, you’ll agree that that one word is performance....

New Forrester Total Economic Impact Study: Vertica customers achieve big results

Predictive analytics is becoming an imperative for nearly every organization that hopes to increase market share. Modern data analytics techniques provide insights into where a business is heading, based partly on where it has been, and on the clear trend lines that point to where the business is going. So, if you’re an entrepreneur, or...

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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...