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Announcing Vertica Version 9.3 – Ride the Winds of Change

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 16, 2019

The winds of change have been blowing strong. This week, Vertica version 9.3 made its big splash. Vertica has a tendency to pack a lot of features even into minor releases, and this is not a minor release. Rather than dive deep, I’m going to skim the surface of the ocean of new features. Eon...
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Can a 100-Year Old Business Innovate with IoT Analytics?

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
October 11, 2019

One of my greatest pleasures is dining out at all the amazing restaurants here in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. I am always amazed and so proud of the innovative and authentic ethnic cuisines that have made the Triangle a nationally recognized foodie community. I think about the complexities of...

Vertica Big Data Conference Registration is Open!

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
September 16, 2019

We’re excited to announce that registration is live for the next Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC), held March 30 – April 2, 2020, at the Encore Boston Harbor Hotel. Don’t miss out on the early bird pricing rate of $695 (a $300 savings), along with buy 3 get 1 free group discounts!   What is...
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The Vertica Academy Is Open for Learning

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
September 9, 2019

One of the greatest impacts from digital transformation, both from a personal and professional point of view, is not just the democratization of data - a very popular topic here at Vertica! - but the democratization of knowledge. Today, we are excited to announce the new Vertica Academy, a platform that offers self-paced, technical training...
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2 – How to Calculate a Correlation Matrix – Data Exploration for Machine Learning

Arash Fard, Senior Software Engineer at Vertica
September 5, 2019

In the first machine learning in a database post, we discussed some of the reasons why it makes sense to do your machine learning data analytics inside the database. This will be the first post where we discuss some of the steps involved in the in-database machine learning workflow. Generally, the first thing you need...
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Evaluating Classifier Models in Vertica

Arash Fard, Senior Software Engineer at Vertica
August 2, 2019

Co-authored by Elizabeth Michaud Vertica provides an out-of-the box machine learning toolset that covers a complete data science workflow. The toolset includes several distributed functions for evaluating both classifier and regressor machine learning models. The goal of this blog post is to demonstrate how you can use the built-in functions for evaluating the prediction performance...
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Delivering personalized retail promotions using AI and predictive analytics

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
July 31, 2019

SO1.ai helps retailers leverage customer basket and loyalty data to deliver smart, automated promotional decisions at scale across millions of customers. The solution is fully automated and designed to fit a retailer’s specific business goals (i.e. revenues, profit optimization, customer satisfaction or brand sales). Want to learn more about the S01.ai solution?
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Vertica Ranked #1 Cloud Data Warehouse

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
July 30, 2019

July has been quite an exciting month for Vertica. Our three keynote presenters are now confirmed for the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – Vertica founder and Turing Award winner Dr. Michael Stonebraker, kingpin of the famous MIT blackjack team Jeffrey Ma, and renowned analyst Ray Wang of Constellation Research. And, in addition to receiving...
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Announcing Vertica Version 9.2.1 – Take Analytics Efficiency to the Next Level

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
May 10, 2019

This week, some very cool things have gone into the newest version of the Vertica Analytics Platform that make your analytics fly and save on your AWS budget. The theme for this release is Improving Vertica in Eon Mode Integration with Amazon S3, and there are a whole bunch of new features designed to do...

DATAx Gaming Analytics Summit in San Francisco

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
May 8, 2019

According to a recent report from Newzoo and Arm, the Mobile Gaming market is expected to top $100 billion by 2021, up from $56 billion in 2017. As the global adoption of smartphones continues to expand, so too does the use of mobile and online gaming. To capitalize on this growth, game developers are looking...
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Network Optimization Makes Telecom Service Better Than Okay

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
May 1, 2019

For sports fans, there’s nothing that matches the heart-stopping action of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament – more commonly known as March Madness. The tournament in 2019 delivered a four-year high in terms of its Turner ratings, causing an advertiser frenzy in hopes to capture those audiences. If you watched this year’s tournament,...

See You at IoT World Conference Next Month

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
April 25, 2019

Are you attending the IoT World Conference in Santa Clara from May 13-16th? Come by booth #1254 to hear why more and more companies, including medical device manufacturers, wearable product developers, network service providers, and manufacturing intelligence software companies, are turning to Vertica to manage their growing volumes of IoT data. Vertica is purpose-built for...