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Award Winning – Vertica Proves It

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
June 12, 2020

June has been quite a month of industry recognition for Vertica and its customers. Fresh off earning top leadership position in GigaOm’s Radar Report for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms, Vertica has once again been named to this year’s DBTA 100 Companies that Matter Most in Data, a special list that salutes today’s top companies in...

Let Business Intelligence and Data Science Coexist!

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
May 11, 2020

Business intelligence and data science frequently compete for resources, and BI got there first. Vertica in Eon Mode subclusters can help them coexist.
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Vertica Version 10 Launches Today!

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 31, 2020

There’s big news today, on the first day of the Virtual Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – a major new version of Vertica blasts off! Vertica version 10 soars straight into the greatest deployment flexibility of any analytical data warehouse on the market. This fast and extremely scalable platform gives you more power than ever...
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New hands-on training at Vertica Academy takes users deep into Vertica Essentials

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
March 12, 2020

Since Vertica Academy was launched in September 2019, this versatile online training portal has acquired more than 1,500 registered users (as of beginning of March), and that number is growing daily. Users are finding answers to tough questions that arise as they explore the complex world of big data analytics. They’re finding self-paced courses, webinars...
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The Vertica Big Data Conference Choice Challenge

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
February 24, 2020

Over the years, we’ve had remarkable feedback about the Vertica Big Data Conference. (#VerticaBDC)  How does it get better than this?  And just to be clear, we know the three people who said “no,” but that’s a story for another day. However, I cannot lie.  We have received consistent feedback about one problem that virtually...
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Practice Makes Perfect at BDC 2020

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
February 19, 2020

Larry Bird, Boston Celtics legend and NBA Hall of Famer, shot 500 free throws every morning before his first class in high school. But, he didn’t stop there. Larry was known to shoot 100 free throws after every NBA game. The result? The sharp-shooting forward from French Lick, Indiana led the NBA in free throw...
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Hands-on Class Makes Parallel Data Management Theories Concrete

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
February 5, 2020

Parallel data management in databases is a tough thing to learn when you’re a student. It can feel like another one of those esoteric theories, and it never quite sticks. Now, there’s a cool class at Brandeis University that brings those lofty theories down to earth, and gives students a real chance to see how...
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The Kafka Convergence

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
January 20, 2020

Apache Kafka seems to be everywhere these days. I’m feeling a bit surrounded by Kafka right now, in fact, like I’m at the center of a convergence of the planets, and data flowing through Kafka is the gravitational pull. Let me give you an idea of what I mean. So, Vertica just announced the release...
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Vertica Partners Are the Key to Your Success at BDC 2020

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Industry Product Marketing Manager
January 8, 2020

There are a lot of reasons to be excited about the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020. One of my favorite parts of the event will be introducing our partner ecosystem to our customers! As Vertica’s partner marketing manager, one of my guiding principles is that innovation doesn’t happen in a silo.
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Top 5 Reasons Why You Win Big with Data at the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
December 9, 2019

A few years ago, we held a user conference for our growing Vertica community. However, we underestimated its success – selling out the inaugural event because we had booked a venue that couldn’t accommodate the interest of hundreds of customers, prospects, and partners for what turned out to be Boston’s biggest and best Big Data...

Announcing Vertica 9.3 Instructor-Led Training Courses

Drea Brandford, Technical Consultant
November 21, 2019

Just in time for the release of version 9.3, Vertica is pleased to announce the release of two updated instructor-led training courses: Vertica 9.3 Essentials and Vertica 9.3 Descriptive Analytics. A description of each course follows: Vertica 9.3 Essentials This 4-day course explores the capabilities of the Vertica platform solution in Enterprise mode, and prepares...

Announcing Vertica Eon 9.x Essentials Course

Herb Collins, Technical Consultant
November 13, 2019

We have just released a new instructor-led course: Vertica Eon 9.x Essentials Course code: VT120EON This course provides live instructions on Vertica Eon v9.3, accompanied by comprehensive hands-on labs. Running on a public cloud platform, Vertica Eon Essentials allows users to directly connect with the Vertica Eon database and the Management Console to interact with...