The claim to fame behind Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica platform for Big Data management is high performance. More than once during SiliconANGLE’s live coverage of HP’s Big Data conference last week, Vertica was likened to a Ferrari supercar. But high-speed, high-performance vehicles aren’t easily accessible or “driveable” for everyone. So how can customers who just want to drive with Big Data engage with HP Vertica? In an interview, HP Vertica’s Shilpa Lawande, VP of Engineering, and Eamon O’Neill, Director of Product Management, joined Furrier to talk about how Vertica has become more accessible to more “drivers”.

O’Neill said that HP has recently made Vertica more accessible through the launch of its Cloud version. This is designed for businesses that don’t necessarily want to maintain their own hardware or setup a software cluster themselves. HP Vertica has also shipped an appliance that customers can get up and running much quicker because it doesn’t take long to set up. “So, I think it’s become more accessible than a Ferrari, while it’s still as fast as one,” said O’Neill.

Additionally, Lawande said customers can use the HP Vertica Community Edition, which is free for an unlimited amount of time with one terabyte (TB) on three nodes. “It’s a Ferrari that anybody can test drive,” added Lawande.

For developers, the HP Vertica community has several APIs to tap. Also, HP Vertica’s own developers as well as developers from customers make themselves available to answer questions live. O’Neill advised that one of the best ways to integrate with HP Vertica is to get involved with community.

• Legacy customers

Lawande explained that legacy product for data warehousing basically stop at the data warehouse use case, and don’t have the ability to handle all the daily machine data, growing volumes and the diversity of that data. Vertica is the only product on the market that can manage everything from traditional business enterprise data warehouse (EDW) to Big Data types of uses cases.

• “Zipper truck” feature

HP Vertica also released a new “zipper truck” feature a few weeks ago that helps customers with EDWs keep all of their traffic in different lanes. This means that customers can run batch reports and ad hoc queries without them stepping on each other. In the latest release, HP Vertica took things further by dynamically changing the lanes and adjusting the resource pools for different workloads depending on the time of day or business priority.

See the entire segment with Lawande and O’Neill below:

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