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Network Optimization Makes Telecom Service Better Than Okay

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in 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. The tournament in 2019 delivered a four-year high in terms of its Turner ratings, causing an advertiser frenzy in hopes to capture those audiences. If you watched this year’s tournament,...

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, Manager, Vertica Education
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 previous blog post, how to develop an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) application to...
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Big Data – Big Asset or Big Liability

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
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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The Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Metering

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
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...
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Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time – Part 6

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
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....
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Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time — Part 5

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
March 8, 2018

Part Five: Apache Kafka As discussed in an earlier blog post, 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...
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Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time — Part 4

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
February 13, 2018

Part Four: Installing DUMP1090 to decode ADS-B messages The preceding blog post 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...
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Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time — Part 3

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
December 5, 2017

Building a Raspberry Pi to Capture ADS-B signals Picking apples, pears, blackberries or raspberries In a previous blog post, 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...
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Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real Time –Part 2

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
November 14, 2017

Part Two: Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) A Source of Streaming Data If you're joining us a new reader, be sure to read part one of this series to get up to speed! When looking for a topic to use in the first of The Lab Series’ mini projects for the Big Data and...

IoT Analytics with Open Source and Vertica – Tracking Commercial Aircraft in near Real Time — Part 1

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
October 26, 2017

Project Overview This post presents an overview of an ongoing series that focuses on using Vertica, Raspberry Pi, and Apache Kafka to track commercial aircraft in near-real time. Often, people try to understand how to do IoT data analytics with their tool of choice, such as Vertica. Doing so can present some difficulty, especially if...

IoT Data and AI Summit

maura.mcginnis@hpe.com
October 23, 2017

Previously known as IoT Data Analytics & Visualization, the IoT Data & AI Summit is the first dedicated event to bringing the value of Artificial Intelligence and IoT together. During the event, join technical sessions exploring IoT Data and AI technologies and network with a targeted audience to make high quality, relevant connections. This focused...