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New Vertica Accelerator course puts your SaaS-based data analytics to work, fast

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
December 20, 2021

We’re happy to announce a new addition to Vertica Academy’s array of free, self-paced courses designed to put you in the driver’s seat with your data analytics initiatives. The all-new Vertica Accelerator Quick Start course has gone live today on Vertica Academy. If you’re looking for a fast track to highly performant data analytics, and...

Vertica is in the G2 Leaders’ Corner… once again

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
October 13, 2021

When it comes to technology, the business world doesn’t have time for popularity contests. Technology that doesn’t cut it falls by the wayside, and gets replaced with whatever helps a business achieve its goals. The Vertica team is happy to be part of our customers’ successes, whether we’ve helped them replace outmoded or poor-performing data...

Vertica 10.1.1 Goes Beyond Analytics with Support for Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, and Containers

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
April 30, 2021

With each release of Vertica, you can always count on major enhancements and features to help you address each step of the predictive analytics process with even more analytical functions and end-to-end machine learning capabilities. While Vertica 10.1.1 includes support for the latest version of PMML, 4.4, some useful new analytical functions, and a new...

Leveraging Cloud Object Store Technologies for On-premises Analytics

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
March 11, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce that our team will now support Vertica in Eon Mode for Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage). Our developers have verified the combination. It addresses a new trend in analytics, namely the use of object store, both on-premises and in the clouds, as the primary storage medium. When you...
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Vertica Achieves Leader Position in G2 Crowd Grid for Data Warehouses

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
January 29, 2021

Peer review sites are becoming an essential buying resource – Vertica has achieved the Leaders’ category in the G2 Crowd Grid for Data Warehouse software.
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Digital Marketing at Vertica

Ryann Sawyer, Marketing Specialist
January 22, 2021

My name is Ryann Sawyer. I am currently a senior at Stonehill College studying Business Marketing. Post-grad, I plan to pursue a career in digital marketing. The world we live in today is undeniably digital. The way we learn, work, and communicate has been transformed by social media, smart devices, big data, etc. Through my...
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Prepare for Your Multicloud Future Today

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
September 17, 2020

You only have to read as far as the subtitle of the 2020 Flexera State of the Cloud Report to understand that more and more organizations are adopting a multi-cloud strategy – cloud spend is rising as organizations adopt multi-cloud strategies and put more workloads and data in the cloud. This ninth annual report, based...

Constellation Research Report Finds Vertica 10 a Leading Choice

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
September 14, 2020

A few pages into a new, detailed overview of Vertica 10, produced by Constellation Research, principle analyst Doug Henschen summarizes the top new capabilities of Vertica 10 like this: In short, the Vertica team has steadily evolved the product to keep pace with the demands of organizations that seek to do the following: Unify diverse...
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What’s the Deal with Vertica TCO?

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
August 26, 2020

Recently, a colleague of mine was trying to express why Vertica had such a low total cost of ownership (TCO). It’s not obvious. Our customers rave about the fast return on investment. We have a half dozen excellent case studies from third-parties showing Vertica’s ROI. But why? Open source options are free. Vertica isn’t free....

Vertica outperforms Redshift and Snowflake in third-party benchmark study

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
August 7, 2020

Vertica proven to be faster, more affordable, and more scalable in terms of concurrency in third-party benchmark over Amazon Redshift and Snowflake Choosing a cloud-based big data analytics platform for your organization’s analytical needs is seldom an easy task, and it can’t be the first step on your big data journey. Earlier steps should include...
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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 Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
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,...