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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (NSP) data warehouse appliance.
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"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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Make no mistake the FAST Engine-enabled NPS appliances
are now taking aim at high-end enterprise data warehousing
accounts.
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Intelligent Enterprise names Netezza one of 'The Dozen'
companies that will matter the most to the intelligent
enterprise in 2008.
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Paul Froggatt, information management manager at Virgin
Media, says, "Our vision and strategy is to bring
our information assets into a single consolidated environment
that will deliver intelligence to the enterprise as
a whole. The goal is to produce an holistic view of
individuals as customers and identify all the relationships
they have with us and our product sets."
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Appliance vendor Netezza beat off competition from Microsoft
and Hewlett-Packard to provide the North European operations
of UKbased travel services firm Thomas Cook Group with
a data warehousing platform.
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Speaking of data warehouse appliances, another major
event, perhaps not immediately obvious, was the successful
IPO of Netezza. While this was certainly a key event
for the company, it would not qualify as a major industry
event unless it also impacted the overall data warehousing
industry. I believe it does.
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Netezza's streaming architecture is built on the FPGA-Accelerated
Streaming Technology (FAST) Engines framework, which
consists of several analytic functions that are programmed
and customized at run-time in the FPGA to deliver performance
advantages and enhanced capabilities for the NPS system.
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Netezza customer Guido Sacchi, CIO of CompuCredit, named
one of Computerworld's Premier 100 - a group of IT leaders
who broke down communication and departmental barriers
to get cutting-edge projects off the ground.
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Eric Williams, CIO of Catalina Marketing, has practically
automated the process of predictive analytics using
Netezza's data warehouse appliance, SAS's Enterprise
Miner, and a research tool developed in-house that directs
people to surveys about their buying habits; in reward,
they get store discounts.
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"The good news is that all of the industry megatrends
are in our favor," said James Baum, president and
COO of Netezza. "Those trends have created a very
nive Opportunity to grow."
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Netezza said its compression approach differs from other
techniques used by rival database providers in that
it's specifically designed to improve performance and
not just to reduce data size and footprint.
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Netezza's data warehouse appliances have allowed CompuCredit
to continue to expand, even as data volumes have increased
and requests for business intelligence reports have
grown exponentially.
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Catalina Marketing won the award by using a combination
of improved technology around a (Netezza) data warehouse
appliance designed for increased data access and innovative
use of customer incentive programs based on new data
insights.
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IndUS Business Journal profiles Jit Saxena after recent
IPO and being named a 2007 Technology All-Star by Mass
High Tech magazine.
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Data warehouse appliance firm Netezza recently wrapped
up its first international user conference as a publicly-held
firm, calling the event an unqualified success.
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Abercrombie & Fitch's initial steps on its journey
into the future involved bringing on more people and
making changes to discipline and control processes.
The next step was "starting to define the technologies
for our future," says CIO, Kristen Blum. "Our
mission is to support and enable the business, but also
to drive a lot of what the needs are and enable growth
opportunities by getting ahead from the technology perspective."
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Appliances are changing the game in data warehousing,
and if Netezza has its way, its appliance will also
bring big changes to predictive analytics and other
forms of high-demand analytic and algorithmic analyses.
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Facebook didn't happen in Boston. But EMC, Akamai, Genzyme,
Netezza, Equalogic, and a host of other world class
companies did.
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Netezza is giving developers access to a network of
online resources that will help them to develop analytic
algorithms that take advantage of NPS' high-performance
streaming query architecture.
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Indeed, the infrastructure and enterprise products scorned
by Internet highfliers early in the decade - from data
storage equipment to accounting software - have become
platforms of growth and stability in today's technology
economy. And global sales of these products have climbed
as the dollar has declined against foreign currencies,
providing a cushion as the US economy slows.
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Business intelligence and data warehouse trends: Appliances
and "third-generation" BI (Part )
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It is magic! A data warehouse appliance is giving Virgin
Media performance, simplicity and affordability.
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Business intelligence and data warehouse trends: Appliances
and "third-generation" BI (Part 1)
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Business Objects joins the growing list of software
companies offering virtual appliances compatible with
the VMware infrastructure.
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For many companies, the ability to deliver data as rapidly
and efficiently as possible to end users that need it
goes right to the bottom line. In the case of iBasis,
the deployment of its data warehouse appliances enables
decision makers to execute complex analyses against
increasingly detailed data, which further enhances the
company's management of call routing and rating to optimize
gross profit. In addition, providing cost-efficient
communications services represents a tremendous revenue
growth opportunity.
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Netezza Inc. announced Release 4 (R4) of Netezza Performance
Server (NPS), its signature DW appliance. Thanks to
its NPS refresh, Netezza says it's able to deliver twice
the query performance-on all Netezza systems. One upshot,
Netezza officials say, is that NPS R4 enhances query
performance on existing NPS hardware-at no additional
cost.
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Netezza is in the red-hot market of data warehousing,
which allows companies to manage their complex digital
infrastructures. At the same time, the company faces
megarivals such as Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and NCR's
Teradata. But as seen with last week's fiscal second-quarter
report, Netezza knows how to deal with the pressure.
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Jit Saxena, CEO of data warehouse appliance maker Netezza-a
key Teradata competitor-told eWEEK that the NCR split
into two companies will be good for the data warehousing
industry as a whole.
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The informatics division of Premier Inc. a San Diego-based
health care alliance owned by 200 hospitals, this spring
ousted the system that provided data analysis to 400
hospitals, said Chris Stewart, senior architect in the
informatics division. The division replaced its IBM
Red Brick Warehouse SQL-based relational database with
a Netezza data warehouse appliance for the core analysis
it offers to the hospitals, he said.
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Netezza, a leader in the data warehouse appliance market,
announced the latest release of its Netezza Performance
Server (NPS) system yesterday. "This is a milestone
for us on many levels," Ellen Rubin, vice president
of marketing. "We created the first data warehouse appliance
and now the entire industry has embraced the concept."
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Netezza Corp. today announced Release 4 of the Netezza
Performance Server (NPS), its integrated hardware and
software better known as a data warehouse appliance.
The Release 4 upgrades are all within the software and
are said to double the performance of both current and
previous generations of the company's hardware -- without
increases in price, hardware footprint or power or cooling
requirements.
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Corporate Express, which now uses an Oracle 10g database-based
enterprise data warehouse, expects to begin using Netezza
Corp.'s Performance Server appliance this fall to power
a new data mart that will let customers run Web-based
queries about their purchasing history, said Matt Schwartz,
director of business analysis at Corporate Express US.
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Business intelligence consistently tops CIO spending
priority lists as it continues to spread its wings into
more corporate departments. For example, Virgin Media
has adopted Netezza's NPS data warehouse appliance for
complex BI querying of customer call data sourced from
its various merged and re-branded NTL, Telewest and
Virgin Mobile companies.
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Virgin Media found that moving its database over to
a dedicated datawarehouse server was the best way to
optimise its data querying and analysis operations.
The firm is currently trialling the Netezza Performance
Server datawarehouse appliance, which it has found performs
queries several times faster than its previous database
system.
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Visions of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan
and Andy Summers abound. What could be better? Perhaps
having rich, meaningful data to make the job easier
and more profitable.
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Virgin Media has dumped an Oracle system to analyse
customer data, and will instead use a Netezza data warehouse
platform. Virgin Media is to standardise its enterprise
data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) platforms
on the faster Netezza Performance Server (NPS) systems.
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Increasing power costs and increasingly constrained
power availability are prompting many companies to reexamine
their IT strategies and budgets.
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The e-commerce industry continues to grow more competitive
by the day. Online retailers that want to stay ahead
of the pack need to have the most accurate and up-to-date
information on hand at all times, in order to ensure
that they have a solid grasp of their customer base
in order to stay competitive in the ever-changing online
marketplace.
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Netezza is packaging Business Objects' Crystal Decision
BI platform for mid-sized companies with its data warehouse
appliance. The bundle is available in 1 terabyte and
3 terabyte configurations.
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Netezza, says Andy Winans, vice president of retail
and consumer packaged goods, "brings to the table the
pent-up optimism that was in data warehousing 10-15
years ago." And with the amount of data being captured
and analyzed continuing to grow, it's not a moment too
soon.
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Buyers don't have to wait until Monday to review sales
trends; they can run those analytic reports when they
want, and if they see an item selling fast in one region,
they can jump on an opportunistic buy to boost profitability.
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"The Netezza system runs literally two orders of
magnitude faster than a comparable traditional architecture
system, like an Oracle system, and it's cheaper than
that," said Richard Zimmerman, IISi's president
and chief technology officer.
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Why are data warehouse appliances consistently able
to outperform general-purpose systems to uncover deeply
buried customer and operational trends? What accounts
for their low total cost of ownership and ease of use
in the data center?
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"Combined with the Netezza appliance we have achieved
some great increases in pre-processing of data and so
we can now do things much quicker - literally a four
hour or even overnight query on the old AS/400 is down
to minutes," says Richard Verhoeff, director of
IT and e-commerce at Center Parcs.
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Vishal Daga, interviewed for this podcast at MicroStrategy
World, speaks to the core values of Netezza and its
relationship with MicroStrategy.
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Justin Lindsey is now chief technology officer at Netezza,
the data warehouse appliance company. Lindsey was former
deputy chief information officer and chief technology
officer for the United States Department of Justice
and chief technology officer for the FBI.
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Getting storage infrastructure both up to size and up
to speed are top agenda items for enterprise IT builders,
as Peter Coffee discusses with President and COO Jim
Baum of data warehouse appliance provider Netezza.
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New BI tools can provide an appliance-based approach
that works within an existing IT infrastructure, which
is easier to operate and maintain-and cheaper, says
Jim Baum, president and COO of data warehouse appliance
provider Netezza.
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Of course NCR's decision to pull apart Teradata might
also be a response to increased competitive pressure
in the market, particularly from new data warehouse
appliance vendors like Netezza Corp and Datallegro Inc
who are starting to nibble away at its market, as well
as entrants in the enterprise data warehousing market
like Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Jit Saxena, CEO of data-warehouse appliance maker Netezza
- a key Teradata competitor - told eWEEK that the split
into two companies will be good for the data warehousing
industry as a whole.
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