BILLERICA, Massachusetts, February 3 /PRNewswire/ --
- Among the most influential technology companies impacting smart enterprises
Vertica Systems has been named Company to Watch in TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise 2009 Editors' Choice Awards.
The honor is bestowed to an elite class of the most influential technology companies impacting smart enterprises, according to the award judges. Companies are chosen based on their ability to provide exceptional vision, technology innovation and customer leadership in attaining strategic objectives.
Vertica made the list for the development of its Vertica Analytic Database, the only analytic database specifically built to handle today's business intelligence data management workloads. It features a unique columnar, MPP architecture to speed up query processing by orders of magnitude and aggressive data compression that reduces storage requirements by as much as 90 percent, dramatically cutting hardware overhead and energy consumption so customers can analyze larger amounts of data at a fraction of the cost. In customer benchmarks (http://www.vertica.com/benchmarks), Vertica has answered queries against terabytes of data 50 to 200 times faster than competing databases and specialized analytic hardware. The Vertica Analytic Database gives more people the freedom to analyze more data in more ways, faster, so they can out-innovate the competition.
Smart enterprises will have to make the most of technology to outmaneuver the competition and navigate the shoals of fast-changing and challenging economic conditions, said Doug Henschen, editor-in-chief, Intelligent Enterprise. We present our 10th Annual Intelligent Enterprise Editors' Choice Awards to guide our readers toward innovative and influential vendors, whether large or small, that have been leading the way toward easier and more comprehensive use of information, deeper and timelier insight, and more flexible and efficient applications and business processes.
Intelligent Enterprise's Editor's Choice Award is the latest in a string of accolades Vertica has received since its launch including the Red Herring 100 Award honoring the top private U.S. companies, InfoWorld's Top 10 Tech Startups, Computerworld's Horizon Award, and finalist's contention for the TechWeb Jolt Awards, considered the Oscars of the software development industry.
Intelligent Enterprise is part of the InformationWeek Business Technology Network - a power network of industry-leading and trusted brands that provide professional business technology buyers with the information, perspective and tools they need to make optimal technology decisions. As the only site exclusively focused on the ever expanding universe of enterprise applications and processes that drive better business decisions, Intelligent Enterprise is the expert voice on what architectures, applications and processes run the business and move it forward. The site connects the people, the processes and the technologies that meet operational and strategic goals, as well examines how the enterprise can close the gap between analysis and action.
It's great to have the industry validate what customers like Comcast, JP Morgan Chase and Mozilla have been telling us all along: that they are lowering operating costs, reducing business risk and finding new ways to generate profits thanks to their ability to analyze terabytes of data with amazing speed and productivity, said Vertica CEO Ralph Breslauer.
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.
Ed Marshall of Beaupre Co. Public Relations, +1-603-559-5816, emarshall@beaupre.com
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