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Strong Winds of Change at Chief Data & Analytics Officers Event

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
August 14, 2019

Last week, Vertica sponsored the . As a first-time sponsor, we were cautiously optimistic that we could meet with data and analytics leaders that were, according to event organizer IQPC, “…on the forefront of capitalizing on data and analytics in the enterprise as the volume, availability, and complexity of data continues to increase and evolve.”...

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Content Analytics and Video Recommendation Systems with Vertica

Marko Štajcer, Director of Innovation & Development department at Poslovna inteligencija d.o.o.
June 11, 2019

Analyzing digital content and the behavior of viewing customers in real-time is essential to a lot of companies. Communication operators and content providers are offering many services that enable customers to consume video content using different fixed and mobile technologies through different devices, either in their homes or mobile. For these operators and providers, it...

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IOT World 2019 – Backing Up the Buzz

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
May 24, 2019

Connected and autonomous vehicles. Smart Cities. Smart Buildings. Predictive maintenance. Lots of robots. This must be , where more than 12,000 IOT enthusiasts joined at the Santa Clara Convention Center to learn if IOT had “jumped the shark” or if we are just now learning how businesses can ultimately gain advantage from trillions of connected...

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Can You Hear Me Now? Network Optimization at Work

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
May 1, 2019

For sports fans, there’s nothing that matches the heart-stopping action of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament – more commonly known as March Madness. This year’s tournament delivered a four-year high in terms of its , causing an advertiser frenzy in hopes to capture those audiences. If you watched this year’s tournament, you couldn’t...

See You at IoT World Conference Next Month

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
April 25, 2019

Are you attending the IoT World Conference in Santa Clara from May 13-16th? Come by booth #1254 to hear why more and more companies, including medical device manufacturers, wearable product developers, network service providers, and manufacturing intelligence software companies, are turning to Vertica to manage their growing volumes of IoT data. Vertica is purpose-built for...

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Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time — Part 7

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
April 4, 2019

Preparing Vertica to consume messages from Kafka How time has flown (no pun intended!). At long last getting back to continuing this project on tracking commercial aircraft… Having covered ADS-B, the Raspberry Pi, DUMP1090, Zookeeper and Kafka and then in the how to develop an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) application to present a continuous...

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The Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Metering

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
July 17, 2018

Every month, my husband receives a driver’s report from Chevrolet, providing him with “feedback” on his driving behavior – everything from the intensity of his braking to the number of lane changes without a blinker to the distance and speed he drove in his Silverado truck. The report also provides specific details on the upcoming...

Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time – Part 6

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
March 27, 2018

Part 6: Extract, Transform and Load ADS-B messages into Kafka I have discussed in previous blog posts the continuous stream of messages from aircraft transponders, captured and decoded using the DUMP1090 application, which we are planning on feeding into a series of Kafka topics, prior to loading into their corresponding tables in a Vertica database....

Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time — Part 5

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
March 8, 2018

Part Five: Apache Kafka As discussed in an , we have a continuous stream of messages from aircraft transponders captured and decoded using the DUMP1090 application. We now want to load this data into a series of Vertica tables. As with the streaming nature of the incoming data, with many 10s, possibly 100s of messages...

Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time — Part 4

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
February 13, 2018

Part Four: Installing DUMP1090 to decode ADS-B messages The detailed the hardware requirements used in this project for tracking commercial aircraft in near real-time. In this blog post I will touch on installing the operating system on the Raspberry Pi (RPI) and the DUMP1090 software used for decoding the ADS-B signals being received by the...

Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time — Part 3

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
December 5, 2017

Building a Raspberry Pi to Capture ADS-B signals Picking apples, pears, blackberries or raspberries In a , I provided a very high-level overview of ADS-B, and that with the appropriate pieces of hardware and some open-source software, it was possible to capture and decode the radio signals being broadcast from commercial aircraft, with the view...

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