Framingham, Mass. — May 9, 2007 — Netezza Corporation, a leading provider of data warehouse appliances, today announced that Nationwide Financial Services, Inc., the holding company for Nationwide Life Insurance Company, is migrating its existing data warehouse platform onto the Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) data warehouse appliance. The financial services giant plans on using data warehouse tools like Netezza to more quickly and efficiently analyze data from its sales and marketing systems, helping drive business performance to meet their growth targets.

"Improving informational data management, with tools like the NPS system, will help expand our Business Intelligence capabilities. As we elevate the impact of marketing and sales processes going forward, BI capabilities will become an essential and increasingly important area of investment. We fully expect this technology to result in better performance, enhanced flexibility and increased cost savings across the organization," stated Tim Lyons, vice president, Business Solution Services at Nationwide Financial.

“We’re seeing a dramatic increase in financial institutions adopting Netezza’s data warehouse appliance into their environments,” said Jit Saxena, CEO and co-founder of Netezza. “More and more businesses in this industry segment are realizing the value that technologies such as the Netezza appliance can provide.”

The Netezza Performance Server system is a market-leading data warehouse appliance built specifically to analyze terabytes of detailed data 10 to 100 times faster than existing data warehouse options. The NPS system stores, filters and processes terabytes of records within a single unit, analyzing only the relevant information for each query. This allows the NPS system to speed through processes that would occupy most data warehouse systems for hours, or even days, thereby enabling dramatic increases in productivity for customers like Nationwide Financial.

About Nationwide Financial®
Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: NFS), a publicly traded company based in Columbus, Ohio, provides a variety of financial services that help consumers invest¹ and protect their long-term assets, and offers retirement plans and services through both public and private-sector employers.

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. is part of the Nationwide group of companies, which offers diversified insurance and financial services. The group is led by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, which is ranked No. 98 on the Fortune 100 based on 2005 revenue.² For more information, visit www.nationwide.com.

About Netezza Corporation
Netezza is a leading provider of data warehouse appliances. The Netezza Performance Server data warehouse appliance integrates database, server and storage platforms in a purpose-built system to perform detailed queries and analyses on large volumes of stored data. Recognizing the limitations of traditional data warehouse solutions, Netezza designed its NPS family of data warehouse appliances specifically for analysis of terabytes of data 10-100 times faster than traditional solutions, with a lower total cost of ownership and greater ease of use. Based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. The Company is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures, Battery Ventures, Orange, Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital Partners. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

¹ Nationwide Investment Services Corporation, member NASD. In MI only: Nationwide Investment Svcs. Corporation.
² Fortune Magazine, April 2006

# # #

Follow this link for more information on Netezza data warehouses.