Appliance Leader Broadens NPS Family to Enable High-Performance
Analytics on Massive Data
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(Business Wire)--Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), the global analytic appliance
market leader, today announced it is extending its high-performance
Netezza Performance Server(R) (NPS(R)) family of appliances to scale
to the petabyte level, to meet the demand for fast, comprehensive
analyses on exponentially growing data volumes. This demand is
especially strong in high data growth industries including
telecommunications, financial services, online businesses and the
federal government.
Through advances in hardware technology, and leveraging the
increased performance benefits of its recently announced Compress
Engine and the innovations in its FAST Engines(TM) framework, Netezza
is extending its NPS family to include configurations of systems that
scale into the hundreds of terabytes, up to the petabyte level. These
new systems will also provide support for expanded, multi-terabyte per
hour data load speeds to further reduce data loading and backup
windows.
Netezza's patented streaming architecture delivers the same
high-performance and low total cost of ownership advantages across a
broad range of data sizes, from a few hundred gigabytes into the many
hundreds of terabytes. According to Jit Saxena, chairman and CEO,
Netezza, "When we launched the Netezza appliance in 2002, our largest
system capacity was six terabytes. In 2004, we increased the maximum
capacity of our systems to 27 terabytes, and in 2005 we increased the
top end again, to 100 terabytes. Now with this expansion, we have a
very broad range of high-performance system options to mirror the
needs of our customers as they manage and analyze their growing data
volumes."
"Businesses are rapidly coming to understand the importance of
analyzing all their data for competitive advantage, causing data
volumes to grow very large, very quickly," said Richard Winter,
president of WinterCorp, an independent consulting firm specializing
in large scale data management. "Netezza's product line expansion
reflects the increasing data volume and analytic demands of its
growing customer base."
Availability
The new NPS configurations will be available starting in mid-2008.
The Netezza Performance Server family of streaming analytic
appliances is designed specifically for high-performance, terascale
analytics, and architecturally integrates a relational database,
server and storage into a single compact and power-efficient unit. The
system's advantage comes from its patented streaming architecture
design. Netezza has placed processing power next to the data, so
analysis occurs at the source at streaming speeds, delivering an
unprecedented 10-100 times the performance of traditional systems at a
fraction of the cost. Analyses that took days now take just seconds.
This means a dramatic increase in productivity across the enterprise
and faster time to value for business initiatives. Netezza appliances
are changing the way organizations leverage information, creating a
powerful analytic foundation for a new generation of business
analytics that improve strategic decision-making and drive results.
About Netezza Corporation
Netezza is the global leader in analytic appliances that
dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users
across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and
operational advantage in today's information-intensive marketplaces.
The Netezza Performance Server(R) (NPS(R)) family of streaming
analytic(TM) appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range
of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have
realized the benefits of Netezza appliances include Ahold, Amazon.com,
CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon,
Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System,
Inc., The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Framingham,
Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and
Asia Pacific. For more information about Netezza, please visit
www.netezza.com.
Netezza, Netezza Performance Server, NPS, FAST Engines and
streaming analytic are trademarks of Netezza Corporation. Other names
may be trademarks of their respective owners.
For Netezza Corporation
Dawn Sullivan or Ann McDonough, 781-684-0770
Netezza@schwartz-pr.com
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