BILLERICA, Massachusetts, December 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Demonstrates Vertica Analytic Database's enterprise-class scale and support of storage area networks

Vertica is participating in the new EMC(R) Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Analytics Competency Center to provide customers with a unique one stop shopping experience for determining the appropriate solution to meet their data warehouse/business intelligence needs. The Competency Center is designed to help organizations achieve cost efficiencies and reduce time-to-value in data warehouse deployments.

The Competency Center brings together engineering resources from EMC and the leading data warehouse/business intelligence vendors to leverage their software with EMC CLARiiON(R) and EMC Symmetrix(R) networked storage systems to provide an optimized storage area network (SAN) solution for data warehouse/business intelligence. Together, Vertica and EMC plan to offer organizations an optimized data warehouse solution based on tight integration of the Vertica(R) Analytic Database and EMC storage systems that deliver on customer demands for ease of use, high reliability and power efficiency.

Vertica has made enterprise data marts and data warehouses more efficient by combining speed, high availability and performance with cost-effective storage management, said David Menninger, vice president of product marketing and management at Vertica. By working closely with EMC, we can continue to provide customers a solution that not only serves up data more quickly, but gives them best-in-class storage solutions.

The high-performance column-oriented Vertica Analytic Database is the only analytic database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has answered queries against terabytes of data 50 to 200 times faster than competing databases and specialized analytic hardware. Vertica enables more people to analyze more data faster and at a fraction of the cost of other products.

Vertica is also one of the most versatile when it comes to deployment options. The Vertica Analytic Database can be used and deployed in a variety of ways to support a wide range of analytic workloads and budgets -- on grid hardware with local disk, embedded in an appliance, on-demand hosted in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, and now on grid hardware connected to EMC's industry-leading SAN products.

The EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Competency Center brings together the engineering resources and expertise of industry leaders to work directly with customers to help them evaluate, plan and architect a solution that addresses their business challenges, said Chuck Hollis, EMC's vice president, global marketing chief technology officer. Having Vertica participate in the Competency Center enables the two companies to work closely to ensure we can offer customers an optimized data warehouse/business intelligence solution.

Since its debut in February 2008, companies like Mozilla, JP Morgan, Comcast and Verizon are tapping Vertica to enable fast, complex ad hoc queries against terabytes of detailed business intelligence and operational analytic data.

About The EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Analytics Competency Center

Located in EMC's Santa Clara, Calif. facility, the EMC Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Analytics Competency Center also has Cisco telepresence to link to EMC's Executive Briefing Centers in Hopkinton, Mass. to provide customers with state of the art video conferencing access to the resources.

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 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.

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Ed Marshall of Beaupre Co. Public Relations for Vertica, +1-603-559-5816, emarshall@beaupre.com