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Going Beyond a Data Lakehouse

David Sprogis, Director of Product Management
December 15, 2021

The way things get named in this industry can be pretty odd.  A lot of people have been hearing noise about how cool a “Data Lakehouse” is since it combines the power of a data lake with the power of a data warehouse. When I think of a lakehouse, I think of a great place...
Vertica Data Analytics and Business Trends

Survey says businesses are implementing predictive analytics, but not without challenges

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at 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...

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

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at 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...

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...

DaaS Labs Embeds Vertica for Machine Learning Analytics at Superior Speed and Scale

Hemendhira Muralidharan, Senior Product Marketing Manager
July 19, 2021

Uncovering hidden patterns, trends, correlations, and insights in data has become a common business pursuit as companies look for different ways and means to monetize their data. Most of this activity relies on advanced data techniques like artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and more. These techniques are DaaS Labs’s...

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...

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...

Vertica outperforms Redshift and Snowflake in third-party benchmark study

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
August 7, 2020

Vertica proven to be faster, more affordable, and more scalable in terms of concurrency in third-party benchmark over Amazon Redshift and Snowflake Choosing a cloud-based big data analytics platform for your organization’s analytical needs is seldom an easy task, and it can’t be the first step on your big data journey. Earlier steps should include...

The Unified Analytics Warehouse Reaches your Data, Wherever it Lives

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
July 23, 2020

You may have noticed something interesting about the next generation enterprise data warehouse (EDW) vendors. They’re all pushing to ensure all data moves to the same place for analytics purposes, which of course means their particular data store. This is very worrisome to me because it involves two levels of lock in: 1) underlying infrastructure...
Unified Data Analytics Warehouse

How can you get the value out of Hadoop that you were promised?

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
June 29, 2020

Since Hadoop’s initial release 14 years ago, untold volumes of data have been stored in HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). Spread across a virtual landscape of data-inspired organizations, those data lakes are wide, and deep. Companies have made tremendous investments in Hadoop over the years, and data continues to pour into their data lakes. You...
Analytics human interest stories

Making a Difference with Analytics – Inspiring Human Interest Stories

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
June 18, 2020

I wake up before the sun rises, head to my home office, parse through the emails that have flowed in overnight, and look at my calendar to prepare for my day. I fill daylight hours with meetings, research, more meetings, writing … and more meetings. Sometimes, it is exhausting and even a little overwhelming. So,...

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.