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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 for Vertica. Today, 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, focuses on RDBMSs that can deliver the ultimate in analytical query performance even in deployments scaling into the hundreds...

Do you really want to outsource your data and analytics?

Marc Heimlich, Director, Technology Sector, Vertica
February 23, 2021

As a nine year veteran of the Big Data business, I’ve seen the shift from transactional data stores like Postgres, SQL Server and Oracle to OLAP offerings from the likes of Greenplum, Aster, Vertica, and ParAccel, to the rise and fall of Hadoop Data Lakes, and now the shift to cloud, object storage, and serverless...

Vertica named by InfoWorld as one of 8 databases supporting in-database machine learning

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
February 22, 2021

A Feb. 17 names Vertica as one of eight analytical platforms that offer in-database machine learning “right where your data resides.” Authored by contributing editor and reviewer Martin Heller, the article validates : flexibility in ML modeling and training, and the ability to analyze data without transmitting it to a central location. “The ideal case...
Rocket to Moon with Vertica version 10.1

Vertica 10.1 Rockets Data Analytics to the Next Level

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
February 1, 2021

As of February 1, 2021, the new version of Vertica rockets analytical database technology to the next level. Vertica 10.1 continues to show our commitment to broad, powerful in-database machine learning by including our most requested algorithm – XGBoost. Management Console makes administering Vertica in the cloud even easier. Support for complex data types in...

Vertica Supports AMD EPYC

Steve Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
January 25, 2021

The momentum of chip-maker AMD has been impressive as of late. AMD has gained some standing in home computing by putting high-performance, low wattage chips in thin laptops that can offer a well-performing gaming experience and long battery life. But that's not all. AMD is also putting development effort into data center server performance. AMD...
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Vertica now available as a managed service from Full 360

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

The Vertica partner ecosystem is steadily growing, with a who provide help with implementation, professional services, and value added reselling. This means that if you’re new to Vertica, or working to create your own data platform for the first time, you’ll find the right expertise within our ecosystem. Now, we’re happy to report that Full...

DX Radio Episode 3: Climate Corporation and Digital Agriculture

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 29, 2020

I have the honor of hosting the latest episode of DX Radio. It features The Climate Corporation’s Daniel McCaffrey, Vice president of Data and Analytics, and Erich Hochmuth, Big Data Architect Engineer, as they explore the digital transformation of farming.
Taking data analytics to the next level

Vertica 10 SP1 Takes Data Analytics to the Next Level

Kevin Xu, Information Developer
September 21, 2020

The first service pack for Vertica 10 brings even more incredible new features to the most flexible and scalable data analytics warehouse on the market.
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Prepare for Your Multicloud Future Today

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
September 17, 2020

You only have to read as far as the subtitle of the to understand that more and more organizations are adopting a multi-cloud strategy – cloud spend is rising as organizations adopt multi-cloud strategies and put more workloads and data in the cloud. This ninth annual report, based on 750 global cloud decision-makers, revealed that...

Constellation Research Report Finds Vertica 10 a Leading Choice

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
September 14, 2020

A few pages into a 10, produced by Constellation Research, principle analyst Doug Henschen summarizes the top new capabilities of Vertica 10 like this: In short, the Vertica team has steadily evolved the product to keep pace with the demands of organizations that seek to do the following: Unify diverse data sources and data types,...

Vertica outperforms competing cloud analytical platforms 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 an unnamed data cloud platform 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....
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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...