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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...
Modern Database Analytics

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 article in InfoWorld 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 two of Vertica’s long-held principles: flexibility in ML modeling and training, and the ability to analyze data without transmitting it...
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...
Cloud analytics

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 rich assortment of partners 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...

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, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
September 17, 2020

You only have to read as far as the subtitle of the 2020 Flexera State of the Cloud Report 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...

Constellation Research Report Finds Vertica 10 a Leading Choice

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

A few pages into a new, detailed overview of Vertica 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...

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...
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...

Delivering BI at Cloud Scale in Record Time with Smart Database Management

Maura McGinnis
June 1, 2020

The complexities of cloud-based data at scale led Domo to use Vertica both to help power their flagship product and to glean metadata to tune and optimize their ecosystem. Their internal system, called “Domo4Domo,” uses a rules-based AI engine, with elements of machine learning, to identify and eliminate conditions that cause poor performance. By achieving...

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.