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Vertica Version 10 Launches Today!

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

There’s big news today, on the first day of the Virtual Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – 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...
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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 Vertica Academy 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...
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Practice Makes Perfect at BDC 2020

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in 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 Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
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, 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...

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...

Announcing Vertica Eon 9.x Essentials Course

Herb Collins, Technical Consultant
November 13, 2019

We have just released a new instructor-led course: Vertica Eon 9.x Essentials Course code: VT120EON This course provides live instructions on Vertica Eon v9.3, accompanied by comprehensive hands-on labs. Running on a public cloud platform, Vertica Eon Essentials allows users to directly connect with the Vertica Eon database and the Management Console to interact with...
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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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Announcing Vertica Version 9.3 – Ride the Winds of Change

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 16, 2019

The winds of change have been blowing strong. This week, Vertica version 9.3 made its big splash. Vertica has a tendency to pack a lot of features even into minor releases, and this is not a minor release. Rather than dive deep, I’m going to skim the surface of the ocean of new features. Eon...
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Vertica in Eon Mode Depot – Where Did You Go?

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
October 3, 2019

Separating compute from storage is such a hot topic these days. “Instance types” and “S3 Object Storage” are core to the language of the public clouds (unless you’re Azure, then substitute S3 with Blob but leave the Object Storage part). This next-generation architecture enables so many operational and economic advantages – workload isolation, elastic scaling,...