SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ --

- Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud 3.0 adds new ease-of-use, Java 
development and Sun Cloud support

Today at the CommunityOne West conference, Vertica announced an upgrade
to its Vertica(R) Analytic Database for the Cloud that brings all the new
features of the recently announced Vertica 3.0 platform to cloud computing
customers. The new version also adds improved Java development capabilities,
support for Sun's forthcoming Sun Cloud, and a number of new ease-of-use and
management features.

Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud 3.0 is an on-demand version of
the company's blazingly fast MPP columnar database hosted on cloud computing
services such as Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), as well as
upcoming cloud computing services from Sun and Rackspace. The new cloud
version offers all the features and capabilities of the enterprise version of
the Vertica Analytic Database, but with the convenience of a hosted offering.

This pay-as-you-go offering enables companies to create scalable,
high-performance analytic data warehouses and business intelligence (BI) data
marts without huge upfront data center costs and delays. All the software
applications, servers, security, networking and storage are provisioned
automatically and maintained on an as-needed basis by the cloud platform
provider. The cloud scales on-demand -- additional servers are added to a
customer's cluster as workloads demand.

"Partnering with Vertica enables us to jointly provide users with easier,
faster and more affordable access to business analytics," said Juan Carlos
Soto, Vice President of Marketing, Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems.
"Offering Vertica on the Sun Cloud will enable users to analyze massive
amounts of data faster to drive competitive advantage."

In addition to support for the upcoming Sun Cloud, the new version has
been enhanced to work with Amazon EC2 as either a public Amazon Machine Image
(AMI) or via Vertica's own cloud computing portal for customers who don't
have an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. These options offer customers
flexibility and simplicity in how they deploy their cloud solution.

To make cloud computing even easier, Vertica for the Cloud 3.0 also
sports new easy-to-use Web-based administration tools, pre-configured
unixODBC drivers, and a one-click Windows Data Source Names (DSNs) creator
that lets users easily create and modify DSNs at runtime.

The new version is also better for developers of Java BI applications. It
features fast loading JDBC drivers and higher performance streaming of large
data volumes to Java server-side data warehouses.

"We're seeing growing demand for analytics in the cloud in a wide range
of industries, from healthcare to financial services and marketing
analytics," said Omer Trajman, Vertica's Senior Director for Cloud and
Virtualization. "And with support for new cloud platforms and enhanced
administration and Java development tool integration in Vertica 3.0, we look
forward to helping many more customers benefit from the performance and
economics of analytic data management in the cloud."

Vertica for the Cloud is the only analytic database designed to be as
elastic as the cloud. Its unique shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data
compression and grid-based failover and recovery make it uniquely suited to
process terabytes of data fast and economically on a 24x7 basis.

Version 3.0 includes dozens of new features that make it the best
available cloud-based data warehousing platform for a wide variety of
industries and applications. These include enhanced analytic capabilities,
such as support for SQL-99 analytic functions and new data types. SQL
analytics enable users to create more powerful queries. It is also the first
cloud-based analytic database to automatically analyze and optimize its
performance. A new function continuously monitors its workload to determine
the best way for the database engine to access the data. The result is a
highly adaptive analytic database that automatically responds to changing
user demands.

Pricing and Availability

Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud 3.0 is available immediately for
a special limited time offer of US$500 per month for 500 GB. This special
promotion ends August 1, 2009. Visit http://www.vertica.com/cloud for more
information. Vertica also offers an enterprise version of the Vertica
Analytic Database.

Come see it in action at CommunityOne West booth # 308F.

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 a hardware based
appliance, as a virtual appliance on VMware 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.

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