September 23, 2002

DBTA 5 Minute Briefing
Netezza Announces Tera-scale Data Appliance for Business Intelligence
Netezza Corp. today launched the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) 8000 Series, the world's first purpose-built, tera-scale data appliance for Fortune 1000 companies and other data-intensive organizations that need faster, more sophisticated business intelligence (BI). The NPS appliance delivers 10 to 20 times the performance for large, complex and constantly growing BI efforts at half the cost of existing systems. 

... Said Jit Saxena, co-founder and CEO of Netezza Corp., to 5 Minute Briefing in an exclusive pre-release interview. "Netezza has solved the big data BI problem with a purpose-built, affordable solution that easily fits into the existing enterprise architecture. The NPS system delivers fast, on-time business intelligence without requiring customers to reformat or restructure their data or applications."

... This product combines server, storage and database into a single powerful and scalable appliance created from the outset to process queries faster and enable complex data analysis that was not previously possible because of large and fast-growing data sizes. This new architecture breaks traditional performance benchmarks and many of the technical roadblocks that paralyze today's patchwork of general-purpose offerings. Built for quick deployment, simple administration and nearly infinite scaling, the total cost-of-ownership (TCO) for the NPS appliance is competitive with solutions currently on the market. More information is available at http://www.netezza.com/.

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