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Big Data – Big Asset or Big Liability

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
April 2, 2019

The newly converged Cloudera recently announced its quarterly earnings and the market was very disappointed, resulting in a stock price drop of 42% and a lot of negative media coverage. One headline that stuck out to me read: “Does Cloudera’s Stock Drop Signal the End of Big Data?” I thought, “No, I don’t think Cloudera’s...
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Embedding Vertica Provides SysMech With Unmatched Telco Analytical Power

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 27, 2019

You probably use Vertica on a daily basis, and don’t even realize it. One good example of this for the Telco industry is SysMech. SysMech offers telecommunications companies a powerful new generation of service management applications. SysMech makes Zen Operational Intelligence Software, which embeds Vertica as its analytical engine. Zen correlates complex data from 75...
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Vertica Receives High Rankings in All Four Data Warehouse Use Cases in Gartner Critical Capabilities for Data Management Solutions for Analytics Report

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
March 25, 2019

This week, Gartner published its (DMSA) report. This research scores 19 vendors in the Data Management Solutions market based on four primary data warehouse use cases: Traditional Data Warehouse, Real-Time Data Warehouse, Logical Data Warehouse, and Context-Independent Data Warehouse. Vertica increased its rankings from 2018 in all four data warehouse categories and convincingly outranked and...
Explore Cloud-Optimized Analytics with Vertica in Eon Mode

Workshop: Explore Cloud-Optimized Analytics with Vertica in Eon Mode

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 11, 2019

Vertica will be offering a 2-day workshop this week, March 13 and 14, in Cambridge, MA, designed to bring Vertica users up-to-speed with Eon Mode.  Eon Mode is a recently released alternative to Vertica Enterprise Mode that provides highly elastic compute on the cloud. Register now, or you’ll miss your chance.
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A Perfect Match – Matrimony.com and Vertica

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
March 5, 2019

If you have ever sought a romantic match in India, chances are you have visited . According to the Times of India,. Matrimony.com’s flagship brand, BharatMatrimony, alone has more than 4,000 associates serving more than three million active members. But, how does Matrimony.com connect singles so accurately and effectively through its online profile matching? Data...

Elastic Throughput Scaling: Overview

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
February 5, 2019

Manvendra Panwar authored this post. Elastic Throughput Scaling (ETS) enables Vertica to increase concurrency through which we can achieve higher throughput. ETS can take advantage of redundant shard subscriptions to automatically identify the nodes in the cluster that can execute a query. More Nodes (N) than Shards (S): Achieving higher throughput • S nodes can...
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Don’t Get Stuck With a Technology Dinosaur

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
January 28, 2019

Unless you have been hiding out in Jurassic Park, you’ve probably heard that most of the IBM PureData System models, aka Netezza, are going the way of the dinosaur this summer. With the announcement of the end of support for one of the first data warehouse appliances, it’s time to look at where to go...
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What You Never Knew About Vertica Could Surprise You

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
December 17, 2018

I just started working on the Vertica team. As the “new guy,” my first few weeks of work have been largely about cramming as much Vertica information into my brain as possible in the shortest time possible. That’s my favorite part of working in the big data analysis world. You always have to keep learning....

What’s New in Management Console 9.1

Linda
August 24, 2018

This blog post was authored by Lisa Donaghue. In Vertica 9.1, Management Console (MC) introduces improved monitoring for external tables and HCatalog data, and the ability to revive Eon Mode databases in a new cluster. MC also includes management and monitoring capabilities for databases running in Eon Mode, a database mode previously in beta. Eon...
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Convenience But at What Cost?

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
July 25, 2018

Convenience is so important to me. Move quickly and get things done. That’s probably why I am so addicted to Amazon Prime despite the fact that I could save money if I would just do a little research and find better prices for the things I buy. My impatience and one click buyer behavior is...

Master Blog Series : Vertica in Eon Mode

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 23, 2018

This post was authored by Soniya Shah. In Vertica 9.0 we introduced Eon Mode. Since then, there have been many improvements in recent releases. Vertica in Eon Mode is a new architecture that separates compute and storage, allowing users to take advantage of cloud economics that enable rapid scaling and shrinking of clusters in response...

Vertica Quick Tip: Keepalive settings for AWS Network Load Balancer

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
July 18, 2018

Serge Bonte authored this post. Network Load Balancers are one of the three types of load balancers supported by Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing. See: Since load balancers act as a proxy between clients (such as JDBC) and Vertica servers, it is important to understand how AWS’s NLB handle idle timeouts for connections. The idle timeout...