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Vertica® Analytic Database v2.0 enables companies to give people access to data for ad hoc analytics. With it, dozens of terabytes of data can be compressed by as much as 90%, and employees can get answers to ad-hoc questions based on real-time data within seconds. Along with support for concurrent loading and querying, solution features shared-nothing, column architecture as well as auto-administration for design, optimization, failover, and recovery.
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Vertica Analytic Database 2.0 is Fueling Business Agility by Enabling Fast, Complex, Ad Hoc Queries on Massive Amounts of Data
Production-proven columnar database delivers unprecedented business analytics performance, giving companies a tangible competitive edge
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 19 -- Today at The Data Warehousing Institute's (TDWI) World Conference, Vertica Systems announced the launch of the Vertica(R) Analytic Database 2.0. Its uniquely advanced architecture and production-proven feature set provide blazing performance on industry-standard hardware. Vertica Analytic Database 2.0 lets companies give more people access to more data for ad hoc analytics so they can out-innovate the competition on more business fronts and respond to key business opportunities in near-real time.
This announcement underscores the company's momentum, as customer-focused development of the database management system (DBMS) over the past year has led to a wave of deployments, with notable successes in the financial services, telecommunications and online business industries. Recent customers include Comcast, BlueCrest Capital Management, NetworkIP, Sonian and LogiXML. A series of strategic partnerships with industry-leading technology providers like HP, Red Hat and Business Objects have fueled customer adoption as companies strive for a competitive advantage they haven't been able to realize until now.
"Whether enabling a customer to see the effect of a pricing change made hours ago or ensuring quality of service, we need to have clear, call detail record visibility into the millions of connections we manage every day," said Stephan Broquie, director of business development applications at telecommunication services provider NetworkIP. "The Vertica Analytic Database gives us the answers we need fast -- regardless of whether the call occurred 10 minutes ago or two years ago. For example, it has cut the time to perform a critical monthly cost analysis of toll-free call traffic from 12 hours to 10 seconds. Given our intense focus on margins, that's the kind of result that makes a huge difference in our market."
The Vertica Analytic Database 2.0 tears down the barriers to on-the-fly analytics created when companies connect BI to older database technology. Companies no longer have to suffer from traditional analytic data management limitations such as: restricted views of historical data; no views of real- time performance data; and the high costs of running 30-year old DBMS technology or inflexible proprietary analytic hardware in BI deployments. Vertica lets companies give more employees more access to vastly larger volumes of data -- dozens of terabytes -- with dramatically lower IT costs. Vertica also enables these employees to get answers to ad hoc questions based on real-time data in seconds, not hours or days.
Knowledge on-demand
Comcast uses Vertica to analyze huge volumes of subscriber usage data based on network switch traffic, enabling the company to make smarter decisions about growing markets and future infrastructure build-out. "Vertica opened doors to analyses that otherwise were either too time-intensive or impossible," said Brian Harvell, senior director for network operations at Comcast. "A larger team of business managers now have faster, easier access to more information. That knowledge is invaluable in an aggressively competitive market like ours."
Vertica has made enterprise data marts and data warehouses more effective and efficient by combining speed, high availability and performance with cost- effective storage management, enabling companies to compress dozens of terabytes of data by as much as 90 percent. Those benefits, along with constant refinement, benchmark testing and customer feedback, have fueled adoption of the Vertica Analytic Database.
In customer benchmarks, Vertica has answered queries against terabytes of data 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware -- using less hardware and disk space at a fraction of the cost of other products. It also consumed as much as 70 percent less human, hardware and data center resources, freeing IT to allocate those resources to meeting other objectives.
Vertica Analytical Database innovations include:
-- shared-nothing, column architecture
-- aggressive data compression
-- auto-administration: design, optimization, failover, recovery
-- concurrent loading and querying
Version 2.0 enhancements include performance and scalability upgrades, new administrative, management and monitoring features to facilitate deployment, as well as integration with a multitude of data integration and BI software products.
"Choosing the right infrastructure and the right product mix to give you a boost in performance or to fix your performance bottlenecks is extremely important," said Gartner vice president and distinguished analyst Donald Feinberg. "Column databases typically outperform all other databases for analytic applications, including those that are built specifically for data warehousing."
Availability
The Vertica Analytic Database 2.0 is generally available in March.
About Vertica
Vertica Systems is the market innovator for affordable, high-performance analytic database management systems. Co-founded by database research and technology pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed blindingly fast analytic database technology for storing and querying very large databases using industry-standard hardware. With its unmatched scalability, flexibility and ease of use, Vertica's solution will bring corporate analytic database architectures into the 21st century. Vertica is headquartered in Andover, Mass. and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and New Enterprise Associates. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.vertica.com/.
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CONTACT: Ed Marshall of Beaupre & Co. Public Relations, +1-603-559-5816, emarshall@beaupre.com, for Vertica Systems
