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How can you get the value out of Hadoop that you were promised?

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
June 29, 2020

Since Hadoop’s initial release 14 years ago, untold volumes of data have been stored in HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). Spread across a virtual landscape of data-inspired organizations, those data lakes are wide, and deep. Companies have made tremendous investments in Hadoop over the years, and data continues to pour into their data lakes. You...
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Making a Difference with Analytics – Inspiring Human Interest Stories

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
June 18, 2020

I wake up before the sun rises, head to my home office, parse through the emails that have flowed in overnight, and look at my calendar to prepare for my day. I fill daylight hours with meetings, research, more meetings, writing … and more meetings. Sometimes, it is exhausting and even a little overwhelming. So,...

Award Winning – Vertica Proves It

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
June 12, 2020

June has been quite a month of industry recognition for Vertica and its customers. Fresh off earning top leadership position in , Vertica has once again been named to this year’s , a special list that salutes today’s top companies in data management and analysis. Vertica Named to DBTA 100 Companies that Matter Most in...
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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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Write Optimized Store (WOS) Deprecation – What You Need to Know

Sumeet Keswani, Vertica Product Technology Engineer
March 23, 2020

In Vertica 10.0, WOS (Write Optimized Store) will be deprecated. In this blog, we introduce the historical justification for WOS and its purpose, why we believe that it's no longer needed, and our justification for deprecating it. We'll go over the data and the testing we performed that gives us the confidence to ensure that...
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New hands-on training at Vertica Academy takes users deep into Vertica Essentials

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
March 12, 2020

Since was launched in September 2019, this versatile online training portal has acquired more than 1,500 registered users (as of beginning of March), and that number is growing daily. Users are finding answers to tough questions that arise as they explore the complex world of big data analytics. They’re finding self-paced courses, webinars and certifications,...
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Practice Makes Perfect at BDC 2020

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
February 19, 2020

Larry Bird, Boston Celtics legend and NBA Hall of Famer, shot 500 free throws every morning before his first class in high school. But, he didn’t stop there. Larry was known to shoot 100 free throws after every NBA game. The result? The sharp-shooting forward from French Lick, Indiana led the NBA in free throw...
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Hands-on Class Makes Parallel Data Management Theories Concrete

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
February 5, 2020

Parallel data management in databases is a tough thing to learn when you’re a student. It can feel like another one of those esoteric theories, and it never quite sticks. Now, there’s a cool class at Brandeis University that brings those lofty theories down to earth, and gives students a real chance to see how...
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Vertica’s Eon Mode – New Architecture for Flexibility, Performance, and Savings

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
January 21, 2020

Vertica was born in the age of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) appliance, in 2005. At the time, the EDW appliance was a great idea – a relatively simple bundle of hardware and software. You plugged it in, and it worked. This single box came with a lot of services, too. But it also came...
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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...

Announcing Vertica 9.3 Instructor-Led Training Courses

Drea Brandford, Technical Consultant
November 21, 2019

Just in time for the release of version 9.3, Vertica is pleased to announce the release of two updated instructor-led training courses: Vertica 9.3 Essentials and Vertica 9.3 Descriptive Analytics. A description of each course follows: Vertica 9.3 Essentials This 4-day course explores the capabilities of the Vertica platform solution in Enterprise mode, and prepares...