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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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1 – Why Would You Do Machine Learning in a Database?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
April 22, 2019

Co-authored with Paige Roberts. A lot of modern scalable analytical databases like Vertica allow you to do machine learning data analytics from end to end, right in the database, rather than moving and transforming the data first into something like a Spark dataframe or a Python data structure. Whenever people hear about this capability, they...
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Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Start-Ups on the Fast Track

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

Tuesday, 4/30/19 Workbar Back Bay 6:00-8:00 PM Are you a data-driven start-up that makes decisions based on insight from high-performance analytics and machine learning? Would you like to choose the best analytical tool/ML for the job beyond limited open source offerings, but don’t have the budget? Do you want to hear best practices on how...
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Data Innovation Summit 2019

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
April 9, 2019

Having attended the Big Data Analytics – Europe event in Rotterdam on the 12th March, on 14th/15th, Captain Mark Whalley and fellow Captains from Vertica Airways paid a flying visit to the Data Innovation Summit in Stockholm. Whilst there, they crewed the Vertica booth answering questions from passengers and visitors and assuring them that their...
Southern Data Science Conference, April 11, 12

Join Vertica at the Southern Data Science Conference in Atlanta

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
April 8, 2019

Next week – April 11-12 – Atlanta, GA will host the Southern Data Science Conference (SDSC). Held at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Midtown, this event is geared to data scientists converging to hear from the industry’s best and brightest minds from top companies and research institutes. More than 400 attendees will attend two days of...
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Embedding Vertica Provides SysMech With Unmatched Telco Analytical Power

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 27, 2019

You probably use Vertica on a daily basis, and don’t even realize it. One good example of this for the Telco industry is SysMech. SysMech offers telecommunications companies a powerful new generation of service management applications. SysMech makes Zen Operational Intelligence Software, which embeds Vertica as its analytical engine. Zen correlates complex data from 75...
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Maxcom Telecomunicaciones Gets More Than They Bargained For With Vertica

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 22, 2019

Maxcom Telecomunicaciones is a Mexican integrated telecommunications operator providing managed voice and data services. The Mexican federal regulations changed recently, requiring Maxcom to retain call detail record (CDR) data for two years, rather than two months. It also required them to answer queries on that data far faster, sometimes within an hour, any time of...

Brace Yourself: 5G is Coming

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
March 21, 2019

Find out how machine learning and predictive analytics can be a growth engine for telcos and mobile operators in the age of 5G
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 6. Advantages of In-Database Machine Learning

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 13, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. This is the final installment of the discussion. It was a lot of fun catching up and talking shop. In this final interview post, we talked about some of the advantages of doing...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 3. Exciting News for Upcoming Python Release 3.8

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 6, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and have been posting them one chunk at a time. In the first post, we discussed the wide variety of programming languages...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 2. Advantages of KNIME and Letting Databases Do What Databases Do Best

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
February 27, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and will post them up one subject at a time. In this second post, we discuss the advantages of KNIME for a...