Traditionally Netezza’s sweet-spot has been at the high-end of the market – i.e. large multinationals that run large data intensive applications with over 10 terabytes of data.
The availability of Netezza’s lower-end offering, PS 8025, will now extend its target to data environments between the 400 gigabytes to one terabyte range.
Importantly, Netezza Performance Server (NPS) 8025 also comes with a lower price tag (less than $300,000 per system), an attractive price point that Netezza thinks will make terabyte-class warehousing more accessible to smaller and medium sized companies.
The new product also comes with several enhancements in the areas of workload management, bulk data transfer, and internationalization.
Netezza’s NPS system is a purpose-built (hybrid hardware/database) data warehouse appliance built specifically to query and analyze terabytes of data – 10 to 50 times faster than traditional data warehouses, according to the company. It achieves this level performance placing CPU power as close to the data as possible – storing, filtering and processing terabytes of records within a single unit, analyzing only the relevant data for each query.
Founded in 2000, Netezza is a privately held company headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts. Its marquee customers include AT&T Wireless, CNET Networks, and Orange UK.
