Just the real grunt work of log file or sensor processing before loading into an analytic database like Vertica.

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The acquisition of Vertica announced then was hardly enough to differentiate the company, and Apotheker said there would be other, big acquisitions.

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Alnara sold to Eli Lilly and Vertica to Hewlett-Packard.

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Points to speed with which HP stitched Vertica into servers.

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Before joining Hadapt, Mingsheng was Field CTO for Vertica.

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Companies like Vertica, SAP, Excellitics, Oracle, IBM, and Visa have perfected the art of diving into the wide, but shallow pools of data and coming up with valuable returns for their customer.

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This space is a cooperative battleground between the commercial open source world of Hadoop and the enterprise vendors such as EMC Greenplum, Teradata Aster, HP Vertica, IBM Neteeza, and many others.

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