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Vertica Big Data Conference Registration is Open!

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
September 16, 2019

We’re excited to announce that registration is live 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...
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The Vertica Academy Is Open for Learning

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
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 Vertica Academy, a platform that offers self-paced, technical training...
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Is Data Warehouse as a Service Out for Your Blood?

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
July 3, 2019

Last weekend, I finally had the chance to watch the popular, yet alarming HBO documentary – The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. 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...

How to Access Flexible, Cloud-Optimized Analytics on AWS

Ben Smith, 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...
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Vertica’s Architectural Direction – Separation of Compute and Storage

Chuck Bear, Vertica Chief Architect
June 10, 2019

For over a decade, Vertica has delivered industry-leading performance on analytic query workloads in on-premises “shared-nothing” environments. Due to several good (and several lucky) historical architectural decisions, Vertica in Eon Mode is also leading the market for elastic, on-demand databases in public clouds. This post will review the key features of the Vertica architecture, and describe Vertica’s...
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Announcing Vertica Version 9.2.1 – Take Analytics Efficiency to the Next Level

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
May 10, 2019

This week, some very cool things have gone into the newest version of the Vertica Analytics Platform that make your analytics fly and save on your AWS budget. The theme for this release is Improving Vertica in Eon Mode Integration with Amazon S3, and there are a whole bunch of new features designed to do...
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.

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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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 Vertica 9.2?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
December 5, 2018

The latest version of Vertica was released earlier this month and with it comes a host of new features. In Vertica 9.2, we introduced several new features including: Eon Mode Updates Management Console changes Performance improvements Upgrade and installation changes Voltage SecureData updates Management Console Changes These Management Console updates only affect users on AWS....

What’s New in Management Console 9.1

Linda Cotto
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...

Fast Data Loading with Vertica

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
August 20, 2018

Curtis Bennett authored this post. Vertica is well known for its blinding query performance at big data scale, but it can also insert data at very high rates of speed. It can even load data non-stop while being queried, thus enabling real-time analysis of data. Basic Loading Methods There are many ways of loading data...