Vertica Enters the Cloud

Posted by Tom

on Monday, May 12. 2008

And now, the entirely unexpected news for the day, thanks to this article from PC World: Vertica has entered The Cloud. Quote:

Database maker Vertica Systems is moving its technology to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure (EC2), hoping to score customers who want a hosted, pay-as-you-go model for data warehousing and BI (business intelligence), the company announced Monday.

I find this interesting not only because it is a new and different way to access a database, but because it plays to one of my pet peeves: scaling down. From the article:

Amazon's architecture also sets up Vertica "both for the midmarket (which generally doesn't use the most scalable premises-based [data warehousing] platforms)...

Though there doesn't appear to be an official press release, they do have a "Vertica for the Cloud" product page. In addition, there's a link on their homepage to an upcoming webinar titled "Analytic Data in the Cloud". I for one have already signed up, and am looking forward to it. This one should be really interesting.

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Vertica for the Cloud Update | Full Table Scan | 13 May, 14:37

A quick update to yesterday's Vertica Enters the Cloud post: there is (now) an official press release. One juicy tidbit from said press release that I want to highlight: Vertica for the Cloud completely changes the economics of business analytics, m

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