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Phil Francisco
VP, Product Management & Marketing, Netezza

12.16.2008

Phil Francisco joins Lewis Cunningham to discuss the Netezza Performance Server architecture, how it compares to the HP Oracle Database Machine, why Netezza claims that the NPS is faster and tools and support for developers.
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12.15.2008

Data-warehouse appliance vendor Netezza released its in-database analytics capabilities last May, and in September the company announced five partner-developed applications that rely on in-database computations to accelerate analytics.
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12.15.2008

Expansion and Contraction of BI: Join David Hatch of the Abedeen Group and subject matter specialists from Accenture, Netezza and SAS as they discuss how organizations are seeking to expand their capabilities to provide more staff with more relevant business information.
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12.10.2008

Netezza, a supplier of datawarehouse infrastructure and appliances, has opened up its technology to allow partners and customers to build applications code close to the data repository, with a radical improvement in performance.
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12.1.2008

Dave Kloc at Netezza explains how the pharmaceutical industry can satisfy its need for data analysis by identifying and employing data warehouse appliances.
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12.2008

Even as the clouds have darkened over the economy during 2008, the information technology industry has maintained a run of strong financial performances.
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10.29.2008

...In the words of Moly McMillan, head of Revenue Assurance at Virgin, "Before this new system, we could never be sure how long a query would take. Now, no matter how much data is there to be analysed - be it three, six, or nine months' worth - the time frame for results is fast and entirely predictable."
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Chuck's Blog
Chuck Hollis

10.20.2008

I Annoy Kevin Closson at Oracle
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10.15.2008

Data warehousing firms aren't worried about the rising competition from Oracle, Microsoft, HP, and others.
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10.14.2008

Data Warehousing Takes Center Stage
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10.7.2008

For sure, the recent Oracle/HP announcement was substantial and has shifted the competitive dynamics in the high-end DW market. But it was also an exercise in pure, albeit well-engineered, marketing hype.
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9.29.2008

Oracle’s competition is rejoicing over the company's announcement of the HP Oracle Database Machine, unveiled with much fanfare at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 in San Francisco earlier this week.
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9.26.2008

Phil Francisco, vice president of product management and marketing at Netezza, says that in the coming years, SMEs will battle to bring power consumption under control.
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9.16.2008

Traditional data warehouses are sundry contraptions, consisting of storage hardware from the likes of EMC or Hitachi, servers from IBM, Sun, HP, or Teradata, and database software from Oracle, IBM, or Microsoft. But Netezza combines all of these elements into one box.
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9.16.2008

Netezza Spatial, which was developed by Netezza Development Network partner Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc. (IISI), enables the NPS to store and query location data such as points, lines, polygons, and other references to physical space within the data warehouse. Many databases have the ability to store special data and many appliances offer MPP architectures, but Netezza says the Spatial module is unique in its ability to compute against location information.
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All Points Blog
(Directions Magazine)
Adena Schutzberg

9.12.2008

Netezza to Announce Spatial Extension to Data Warehouse Appliance
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8.22.2008

Nabil Elsheshai, a senior analyst with Pacific Crest Securities, writes about Netezza: "Netezza is the clear leader among the next-generation appliance vendors, and it appears to be gaining momentum," and about Teradata: "Teradata remains the performance leader at the very high end of the market, but we consistently heard about customers looking for ways to offload work from their Teradata solution to lower costs."
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8.21.2008

Netezza purchased technology from Intelligent Integration Systems earlier this month and acquired NuTech Solutions in May in a bid to deepen analytics in the data warehouse. Netezza faces competition though from Oracle, Teradata, IBM and others, but Netezza feels the new technology will help them better compete.
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InformationWeek
Roger Smith

8.13.2008

Efficient Servers Equal Efficient Data Centers
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DBMS2
Curt Monash

8.9.2008

Netezza update
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7.31.2008

Using BI tools, retailers become forward-thinkers instead of always looking in the rear-view mirror. They have insight into corrective actions that need to be taken, what business opportunities that need to be seized, and the timing to make planning most effective. And by minimizing risk, retailers are cashing in on greater rewards.
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7.25.2008

Teradata, Netezza Differ In Approach To BI Data
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7.25.2008

Biz Intelligence Has Busy Field
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6.1.2008

Tim Young at Netezza examines how some of Europe's leading organizations are reducing the physical footprint in their data centre, while saving on power and cooling requirements.
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Chuck's Blog
Chuck Hollis

5.23.2008

EMC and DW/BI
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5.20.2008

"What makes the whole entrepreneurial phenomenon work in Massachusetts, building wealth, building communities," Jit Saxena, Netezza CEO, says, "is something politicians need to keep in front of them all the time."
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5.16.2008

It's not a typical enterprise data warehouses story, but then NYSE Euronext (NYSE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, is not a typical enterprise. For one thing, NYSE has not one but three warehouses, each approaching 100 terabytes. Then consider NYSE's queries, some of which interrogate more than 40 terabytes of data. The extreme data volumes and extreme query complexity led to an upgrade onto data warehouse appliances.
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5.12.2008

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the largest financial market in the world in terms of trading volume. Incredibly, however, data management was until recently a real problem area for the organisation.
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5.2008

The NPS data warehouse appliance allowed us to consolidate several data warehouse systems into a single environment. We are able to run Business Objects software seamlessly on the appliances, and reports created through the software are now running 100 times faster than they were previously.
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Xconomy
Wade Roush

4.29.2008

Netezza Boosts Data Warehouse Capacity
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4.29.2008

Netezza (NYSE: NZ) sells high-performance data warehousing appliances to companies such as Neiman Marcus, Amazon, and TJX that need to analyze terabytes of customer data quickly to detect fraud or help with marketing decisions. Thanks to new compression techniques being rolled out next month as part of the latest software upgrade for Netezza's appliances, they'll be able to sift through that data more quickly, and store more of it.
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4.14.2008

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which trades shares in Europe, the US and Asia, is using off-the-shelf technology to cut the time taken to access business-critical data on its network from as long as 26 hours to just over two minutes.
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Justin Lindsey
CTO, Netezza

3.29.2008

Justin Lindsey, the CTO of Netezza, joins Craig Peterson to discuss how businesses have previously stored mass amounts of data in sprawling data warehouse systems that store terabytes upon terabytes of information.
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2.22.2008

Imagine if Wall Street firms could run complex risk analyses iteratively, hundreds of times throughout the day rather than overnight, for better trading decisions. Imagine if telecommunications companies could analyze call data records (CDRs) in real time to offer customers the best packages and rates. Imagine if retailers could optimize SKUlevel pricing by capturing dynamic in-store data.
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2.18.2008

Steve Hawkins, service architect for Orange, a mobile operator in the United Kingdom, says he found considerable power savings in his data center after installing business-intelligence appliances from Netezza.
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1.29.2008

Through advances in hardware technology, and leveraging the increased performance benefits of it's recently announced Compress Engine and the innovations in its FAST Engines framework, Netezza is extending its NPS family to include configurations of systems that scale into the hundreds of terabytes, up to the petabyte level.
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Vishal Daga
director of Business Development, Netezza

1.17.2008

Vishal Daga shares his views on business intelligence (BI), explains Netezza's current focus, and also discusses their partnership with MicroStrategy and how it has been affected by recent changes in the BI landscape.
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1.2008

The Netezza platform will continue to grow in processing speed and storage capability sans hardware or software investments, says Mike Jones, CIO, Michaels Stores. Inc. "This is a big win for a company like Michaels that is moving into an era of detailed analytics to help guide our business."
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DBMS2
Curt Monash

1.10.2008

Netezza Targets 1 Petabyte
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1.9.2008

Netezza's upcoming NPS expansion will result in DW appliance configurations that scale beyond the 100 and 200 TB barrier -- scaling, in some cases, on up to 1 PB, according to officials.
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1.8.2008

Data Warehouse appliance vendor Netezza announced yesterday that it will join the petabyte club later this year when it launches upgrades of its Netezza Performance Server (NPS) data warehouse appliance.
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1.7.2008

"Every time you turn around you see another industry that's facing a tidal wave of data and they need to understand what this data is saying. Many of them have data volumes in this range that they haven't been able to afford to analyze, as much as they'd like to. [Netezza] can deliver that analytic capability, and at a very attractive price," said Richard Winter, a consultant with Winter Corp.
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1.7.2008

Make no mistake the FAST Engine-enabled NPS appliances are now taking aim at high-end enterprise data warehousing
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