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Top 10 Highlights from the Virtual Vertica BDC 2020

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
April 14, 2020

While it was a difficult decision to take the virtual, the registration numbers, session reviews, and overall feedback confirmed that this was our most successful BDC ever! If you did not have a chance to or missed any of the sessions, no worries. All sessions were recorded and PDFs of the presentations are available ....
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Vertica Version 10 Launches Today!

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 31, 2020

There’s , on the first day of the – a major new version of Vertica blasts off! Vertica version 10 soars straight into the greatest deployment flexibility of any analytical data warehouse on the market. This fast and extremely scalable platform gives you more power than ever to get industry-changing analytics, including even more advanced...
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Top 5 Reasons Why You Win Big with Data at the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
December 9, 2019

A few years ago, we held a user conference for our growing Vertica community. However, we underestimated its success – selling out the inaugural event because we had booked a venue that couldn’t accommodate the interest of hundreds of customers, prospects, and partners for what turned out to be Boston’s biggest and best Big Data...
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Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – Are You Excited Yet?

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
October 25, 2019

The Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC) clock is ticking and my excitement is growing by the minute! I want to make sure that our Vertica community is up to date on the latest news, especially some of the General Session speakers and Breakout tracks. And let’s not forget one of the most special components of...
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Vertica Test Results for MDS Security Patches

Gary Gray, Principal Information Developer
August 1, 2019

Several customers have asked us how Intel's recent MDS vulnerability patches will impact the performance of their Vertica databases. Vertica is known for its performance. So, anything that may impact its speed is a major concern for both us and our customers. Vertica engineers have finished a round of testing the OS and microcode fixes...
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Data-Centric Security Rules

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

I just attended the for the first time. I spoke a little on a small panel with a couple of customers about and Format Preserving Encryption (FPE). Then I got to go to other presentations and learned a lot. Probably the number one presentation that stuck with me, was of , the presenter who put...
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In-Database Machine Learning 1 – Why Would You Do That?

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

Co-authored with Paige Roberts. A lot of modern like Vertica allow you to do machine learning 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 have two questions. The first...

Revoke Access to Multiple System Tables from Multiple Users with a New Role

Jim Knicely, Vertica Field Chief Technologist
March 1, 2019

Vertica provides an API (application programming interface) for monitoring various features and functions within a database in the form of system tables. These tables provide a robust, stable set of views that let you monitor information about your system's resources, background processes, workload, and performance, allowing you to more efficiently profile, diagnose, and view historical...
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Revoke Access From Just One System Table

Jim Knicely, Vertica Field Chief Technologist
February 28, 2019

Vertica provides an API (application programming interface) for monitoring various features and functions within a database in the form of system tables. These tables provide a robust, stable set of views that let you monitor information about your system's resources, background processes, workload, and performance, allowing you to more efficiently profile, diagnose, and view historical...

Single Sign-On for Support: New Login for Passport Users

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
February 27, 2019

As part of the Micro Focus ongoing IT transformation, we have consolidated single sign-on systems to improve your experience of interacting with Micro Focus. All Passport users need to create a new account. To maintain your current access rights, you need to register with the same e-mail address you used with passport. If you use...
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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....