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Top 5 Reasons Why You Win Big with Data at the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in 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 Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
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 Cybersecurity Summit in Dallas for the first time. I spoke a little on a small panel with a couple of customers about Voltage SecureData 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...
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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...

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

James 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

James 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...
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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....

Enabling Inter-Node Spread Encryption: Quick Tip

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

Jim Knicely authored this tip Internode SSL allows you to use SSL to secure communication between nodes within a Vertica cluster. It is important to secure communications between Vertica nodes if you do not trust the network between the nodes. The EncryptSpreadComm configuration parameter enables encryption on the control channel. dbadmin=> SELECT SET_CONFIG_PARAMETER('EncryptSpreadComm', 'vertica'); SET_CONFIG_PARAMETER...

GDPR READY RECIPE

Moshe Goldberg, Vertica System Engineer
June 25, 2018

Disclaimer This document content is for informational purposes only. The content here should not be relied upon as legal advice, or to determine how GDPR applies to your organization or you. We strongly advise working with a qualified legal GDPR professional to understand how the regulation applies to you or your organization to ensure compliance....