BILLERICA, Massachusetts, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Vertica Analytic Database running on VMware helps data centers
consolidate "tera-mart" and data warehouse deployments in virtualized
"private cloud" environments

Will virtualization of data centers spell the end of specialized
hardware-based data warehouse appliances? If Vertica has anything to say
about it, the answer is "yes."

Vertica today unveiled a new version of its Vertica Analytic Database
packaged as a virtualized appliance to run in VMware environments. The new
Vertica Virtualized Analytic Database is a simple-to-deploy, self-contained
software package that runs its own operating system and copy of Vertica, on
any VMware-supported hardware as if it were a physical computer.

The Vertica Virtualized Analytic Database is the first high-performance
analytic database to run as a virtual machine in private enterprise compute
clouds. It offers the high performance and simplicity of a plug-and-play
hardware appliance, but running on commodity hardware already present in the
data center, rather than on costly specialized hardware. At last, this allows
data warehousing teams to gain the benefits that virtualization,
consolidation and cloud computing bring, including easier management, high
availability, data center energy savings and faster deployment of solutions
to the business.

"Virtualization is the biggest manageability trend to hit IT in years, so
it's important to see an analytic database vendor like Vertica
participating," said Philip Howard, research director with Bloor Research.
"Virtualization of analytic databases will improve data center agility and
economics by making it possible to install and ready a database for loading
within hours-on any spare hardware in the data center, instead of waiting the
weeks it usually takes to procure and setup a new data warehouse database
system. Of course, you're not likely to have a spare 20 terabyte hanging
around but this initiative will be important for smaller projects and when
upgrading existing Vertica implementations. Ultimately it should save IT
money and allows businesses to benefit from analysis more quickly."

The new edition of Vertica combines a full-featured version of the
Vertica Analytic Database with VMware's hypervisor virtualization platform
and an optimized self-contained Linux operating system. Vertica is the
world's fastest analytic database; it delivers query results 50 to 200 times
faster than other solutions, including specialized data warehouse hardware.
Its unique columnar, MPP architecture and pioneering data compression also
make it substantially less costly to deploy than traditional data warehouse
databases.

"We're excited to see Vertica bringing data warehouses into the
virtualization era," said Charles Wardell, CTO of MarketBridge, a marketing
and sales professional services firm to the Fortune 500 and leading global
companies. "When dealing with a very large volume of data, most disk I/O
intensive applications are not suitable for virtualization. Because of
Vertica's columnar database and innovative compression techniques, Vertica
minimizes disk I/O making virtualization a pretty flexible option. This
enables our data centers to contain large volumes of our customers' response
data and scale our data warehouse on demand simply by increasing the number
of Vertica instances running on VMware. More importantly, it improves data
center profitability by reducing capital costs, administrative burden and
hardware footprint." For more on MarketBridge please visit 
http://www.market-bridge.com/Services/Services-2_1.html.

The Vertica Virtualized Analytic Database is ideal for organizations that
frequently deploy new data marts or whose analytic databases grow rapidly or
have data workloads that are constantly in flux due to seasonal usage.
Deploying them in virtualized "private cloud" environments makes them easier
to expand and faster to deploy without having to wait or waste money
procuring new hardware and software. It's also a great solution for doing
quick, short-term analytic projects.

Hardware freedom

Beyond the benefits of consolidation, the Vertica Virtualized Analytic
Database also lets customers take advantage of their spare computing
capacity, thanks to its ability to run on a wide variety of Windows, Linux,
Solaris or any other computing platform that VMware supports. This is
particularly big news for Windows-only shops and ISVs embedding Vertica in
commercial analytic applications, who previously couldn't take advantage of
Linux-based Vertica's blazingly fast analytic capabilities.

The Vertica Virtualized Analytic Database will be available in March
2009. For more information please visit www.vertica.com/virtual.

About Vertica

Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic
database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware.
Co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed
column-oriented analytic database technology with an MPP architecture that
lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of
magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica
Analytic Database is available as software only, as an appliance or online as
a cloud computing solution. The technology's unmatched speed, scalability,
flexibility and ease of use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon,
Mozilla, Comcast, Level(3) Communications and Vonage capitalize on business
opportunities in real time. Vertica is headquartered in Billerica, Mass. For
more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.vertica.com.