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Vertica Achieves Leader Position in G2 Crowd Grid for Data Warehouses

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at 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, Digital Marketing Intern
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, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
September 17, 2020

You only have to read as far as the subtitle of the 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 on 750 global cloud decision-makers, revealed that...

Constellation Research Report Finds Vertica 10 a Leading Choice

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

A few pages into a 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 data sources and data types,...
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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 . But why? . Vertica isn’t free. Yet our TCO is lower....

Vertica outperforms competing cloud analytical platforms 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 an unnamed data cloud platform 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....
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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...