Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud Gets an Upgrade

September 29th, 2009 BILLERICA, Massachusetts - Vertica continues to share tangible proof points of its rising leadership in the data warehouse market by announcing today the signing of its 100th customer. This achievement firmly establishes Vertica as the fastest growing company in the data warehouse market.

September 9th, 2009 BILLERICA, Massachusetts and WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey - - Operator of Leading OTC Securities Marketplace Sees Major Savings with World Record Solution Pink OTC Markets Inc., the company that operates the OTCQX and Pink Sheets over-the-counter equity marketplace, has slashed the time it takes to generate market reports from hours to seconds while also saving big on reduced hardware and programming costs, thanks to a business intelligence (BI) data warehouse solution built with the Vertica Analytic Database and Syncsort's DMExpress(TM) data integration software. As the third largest U.S.

August 26th, 2009 BILLERICA, Massachusetts - - Market-leading columnar, MPP analytic DBMS chosen to reduce cost of data warehousing terabytes of retail data in North America and Europe Contemporary apparel and consumer products manufacturer Guess?, Inc. has selected the Vertica Analytic Database to help the rapidly growing company analyze dozens of terabytes of point-of-sale (POS), manufacturing, inventory, customer and store performance data in several global data centers.

August 3rd, 2009 SAN DIEGO - A new version of the Vertica Analytic Database features a next-generation database architecture that promises huge performance gains for a broader range of analytic applications that can now take full advantage of the columnar MPP database's blazingly fast speeds. Vertica 3.5, which is being announced today at the TDWI World Conference, pioneers an innovative enhancement in storing and processing columnar data called FlexStore(TM).

July 7th, 2009 BILLERICA, Massachusetts - Italian software developer, Nevis, has developed a new kind of data analytics tool, called NFactum that combines Vertica's high-performance analytic database with its own parametric modeling software to analyze terabytes of multidimensional data in seconds. The software allows executives to gain better, more immediate insight into profitability and other key performance through NFactum's easy-to-use dashboard.

June 10th, 2009 BILLERICA, Massachusetts - WHO: Vertica Systems, maker of high-performance analytic database management software, and Sigma Systems, a leading supplier of OSS solutions for the design, delivery, management, and mediation of advanced communications and entertainment services. WHAT: The two companies are hosting a webinar about a new internet protocol detail record (IPDR) mediation and data warehousing solution for cable and telecom service providers.

May 25th, 2009 BILLERICA, Massachusetts - Businesses are drowning in a sea of audit log data from their IT systems, which must be tracked to mitigate the risks of security threats, legal exposure and regulatory compliance. Vertica is working with Italian IT security specialist, Integra, to offer these businesses the world's fastest log warehouse for managing never-ending volumes of audit data.

May 4th, 2009 CHICAGO - Major release of column-oriented, MPP DBMS features dozens of enhancements driven by fastest growing customer base in analytic data management Vertica announced a major release of the Vertica Analytic Database at the TDWI Conference with new performance, analytic and security features designed to make it the analytic data management workhorse of modern data centers. Vertica Analytic Database 3.0 includes dozens of new features that make it the best available data warehousing platform for a wide variety of industries and applications.

March 26th, 2009 FRANKFURT, BUDAPEST, Hungary, and PRINCETON, New Jersey - Zinsser Analytic and ThalesNano today announced the signing of a collaboration agreement for product distribution in the territory of Germany, Switzerland and Austria. "We are very proud and excited about partnering with Zinsser Analytic.

March 15th, 2009 BILLERICA, Massachusetts - Webinar attendees will learn how virtualizing analytic data marts will bring in a new era of economics and agility for data warehousing and business intelligence; MarketBridge customer case study featured WHO: - Gaetan Castelein, Product Marketing Director, VMware - Charlie Wardell, CTO, MarketBridge - David Menninger, VP Marketing & Product Management, Vertica WHAT: Vertica and VMware have partnered to combine two of the top trends in IT -- virtualization and data warehousing -- and enable a new era of economics and agility. Instead of grossly over-provisioning dedicated servers, IT can now deploy new, pre-configured virtualized Vertica analytic data marts on any available data center hardware in a matter of minutes, and eliminate the weeks of lead time required to procure dedicated hardware and manually configure the solution.

June 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A British cloud enthusiast has claimed to have discovered a new type of cloud. According to a report in National Geographic News, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, began getting photos of "dramatic" and "weird" clouds in 2005 that he didn't know how to define.

February 5th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Lindsay Lohan was upset when she was denied a first class upgrade from on a flight from the US city of Tampa to Los Angeles. According to mirror.co.uk, Lohan started creating a fuss when she was denied the upgrade.

March 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new research has shown that as a result of increases in aerosols, or airborne pollution, clear sky visibility over land has decreased globally over the past 30 years, turning gray skies to blue. The research, by a University of Maryland-led team, has compiled the first decades-long database of aerosol measurements over land, making possible new research into how air pollution changes affect climate change.

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A team of scientists has developed a way to measure temperature changes in the tops of clouds to improve forecast times for rapidly growing storms, by predicting severe thunderstorms up to 45 minutes earlier than relying on traditional radar alone. The method was developed by scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), US.

July 20th, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - The Gujarat government has sought a Rs.705-crore ($146-million) aid package from the World Bank to upgrade urban infrastructure in 10 townships, a senior government official said Monday. The official at the department of urban development said the amount, if sanctioned, would be used to upgrade infrastructure in the towns like Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Veraval so that these areas could attract more industrial investments.

August 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories has shown that radiation from massive stars may trigger the formation of many more stars than previously thought. While astronomers have long understood that stars and planets form from the collapse of a cloud of gas, the question of the main causes of this process has remained open.

May 8th, 2009 Britain to remove some DNA profiles from databaseLONDON — The British government said Thursday it will set up a system to remove details about the DNA of innocent people from its nationwide registry of genetic information, after Europe's top human rights court criticized the way information was held. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said authorities would wipe out DNA and fingerprint samples of people who are arrested but not convicted of most crimes after six years.

June 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - A group of world-record buffs have created a new online database that allows users to dream up their own outlandish categories, and post videos of their feats. The Universal Record Database created by Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson gives everyone the chance to discover the "world record holder in them".

August 19th, 2009 Lockheed Martin gets $25.1M defense pactWASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin Corp., the nation's largest defense contractor, received a $25.1 million contract boost from the Navy for hardware to upgrade the Virginia Class attack submarine, the Pentagon said late Wednesday. The hardware will be used for a sonar system upgrade, which has already been integrated into the first 10 ships of the class as part of the modernization program.

May 15th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - The Forward Markets Commission has accorded in-principle approval to the 53-year-old Ahmedabad Commodity Exchange (ACE) to upgrade and convert itself into a nationwide multi-commodity exchange on the basis of an application made in 2008. 'The Ahmedabad Commodity Exchange has invited Kotak Group as an anchor investor, subject to satisfying conditions stimulated in the approval, and necessary corporate and regulatory approvals,' said ACE president Pravinbhai Thakkar while announcing the development Friday.