Officials at Framingham, Massachusetts-based Netezza says its namesake Performance Server (NPS) is now certified to run on MicroStrategy’s 7i business intelligence (BI) platform.
Both companies already had a close technology alliance prior to the announcement as well as several joint customers including Shoppers Drug Mart and Premier.
Privately held and venture-based, Netezza certainly continues to make waves in the multi-terabyte data analysis space, offering a low-cost purpose-designed data warehousing appliance (database, server and storage). The company says it is confident of mounting a serious challenge to Teradata at the very high-end of the market.
