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Vertica’s Eon Mode – New architecture for flexibility, performance, and savings

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
January 21, 2020

Vertica was born in the age of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) appliance, in 2005. At the time, the EDW appliance was a great idea – a relatively simple bundle of hardware and software. You plugged it in, and it worked. This single box came with a lot of services, too. But it also came...
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Which Database Mode Is My Database Using?

Jim Knicely, Vertica Principal Solution Architect
January 14, 2020

You can run Vertica in either Eon Mode or Enterprise Mode. The primary difference between Eon and Enterprise Modes is where they store data. Eon Mode stores data in a shared object store called communal storage, while Enterprise Mode stores data across the filesystems of the database nodes. If you are working with a new...
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Is Your Future Cloudy? This Buyer’s Guide Offers Clarity

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

When I started at Vertica about seven years ago, I was met by anxious sales people warning me that (HDFS, specifically) was going to completely replace the , as we knew it. And we should be very concerned. That was 2012, a year that I first encountered the lovable elephant and met swarms of Hadoop...

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...
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Announcing Vertica Version 9.3 – Ride the Winds of Change

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 16, 2019

The have been blowing strong. This week, Vertica version 9.3 made its big splash. Vertica has a tendency to pack a lot of features even into minor releases, and this is not a minor release. Rather than dive deep, I’m going to skim the surface of the ocean of new features. Eon Mode Improvements Eon...
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Vertica in Eon Mode Depot – Where Did You Go?

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
October 3, 2019

Separating compute from storage is such a hot topic these days. “Instance types” and “S3 Object Storage” are core to the language of the public clouds (unless you’re Azure, then substitute S3 with Blob but leave the Object Storage part). This next-generation architecture enables so many operational and economic advantages – workload isolation, elastic scaling,...

Introducing an Industry First – Vertica in Eon Mode for Pure Storage

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
September 17, 2019

This week at the Pure Accelerate conference, Vertica and Pure Storage of Vertica in Eon Mode for Pure Storage, the industry’s first and only analytical database solution with a separation of compute and storage architecture for on-premises analytic workloads. Why is this important to you? The rush to migrate analytic workloads to the cloud was,...

Vertica Big Data Conference Registration is Open!

Ben, Senior Product Marketing Manager
September 16, 2019

We’re excited to announce that for the next Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC), held March 30 – April 2, 2020, at the Encore Boston Harbor Hotel. Don’t miss out on the early bird pricing rate of $695 (a $300 savings), along with buy 3 get 1 free group discounts!   What is the Big Data...
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The Vertica Academy Is Open for Learning

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
September 9, 2019

One of the greatest impacts from digital transformation, both from a personal and professional point of view, is not just the democratization of data - a very popular topic here at Vertica! - but the democratization of knowledge. Today, we are excited to announce the new, a platform that offers self-paced, technical training and certifications...
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Is Data Warehouse as a Service Out for Your Blood?

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
July 3, 2019

Last weekend, I finally had the chance to watch the popular, yet alarming HBO documentary – . If you haven’t seen it, it’s a true story that centers on Elizabeth Holmes, ex-Theranos CEO, who dropped out of Stanford to build a company that promised to revolutionize blood testing using a small amount of blood from...

How to Access Flexible, Cloud-Optimized Analytics on AWS

Ben, Senior Product Marketing Manager
July 1, 2019

Vertica was designed from the very first line of code to be a software-only data warehouse with complete freedom from underlying infrastructure, giving you the choice to decide what hardware to use and where. This commitment to flexibility is evident in our product history, as we took the same core MPP analytics engine from commodity...