Netezza pioneered a burgeoning market sector in 2003 with the Netezza Performance Server (NPS), the world's first data warehouse appliance. Our leadership drives a scramble among competing vendors as they bring similar solutions to market. At a high level, today's data warehouse appliances are similar to Netezza's latest appliance, the TwinFin. Each integrates (with varying degrees of success) database, server and storage into a single system. The similarities, however, end there.
Netezza founded this product category on the premise that enterprises foster latent hunger for a true analytic data warehouse appliance. To qualify this product requires minimal set-up and administration, is easy to use and manage, and delivers the industry's best price-performance. In our view, a true appliance becomes the technical differentiator between those organizations succeeding by putting analytics to work and others struggling to get analytics to work. Read more
Phil Francisco,
Vice President of Product Marketing and Management
Netezza, an IBM Company
Netezza founded this product category on the premise that enterprises foster latent hunger for a true analytic data warehouse appliance. To qualify this product requires minimal set-up and administration, is easy to use and manage, and delivers the industry's best price-performance. In our view, a true appliance becomes the technical differentiator between those organizations succeeding by putting analytics to work and others struggling to get analytics to work. Read more
Phil Francisco,
Vice President of Product Marketing and Management
Netezza, an IBM Company

- Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2010
- Eric Thoo | Ted Friedman | Donald Feinberg | Mark A. Beyer
- 22 July 2010
- Data management technologies and practices are evolving fast as organizations recognize their value and attain benefits. This document describes the relative maturity of these technologies and practices, and the opportunities that organizations can derive from established and emerging capabilities.
ANALYSIS
What You Need to Know
Data management and integration capabilities are mission-critical components of the IT landscape. Enterprises need to pursue data management and integration as a comprehensive and cohesive strategy in order to enable consistent and seamless ways of managing enterprisewide data.
- Are Data Warehouse Appliances in Your Future? Plan On It!
- Donald Feinberg
- 8 March 2010
- With their business value proven, and more choices available in the market, the use of data warehouse (DW) appliances is surging in the market. Because of their potential value, organizations must investigate DW appliances as an alternative or addition to a custom DW environment.
Netezza Content
- Customer Testimonials
Con-Way Freight
Con-Way Freight relates their experiences with the Netezza Twinfin's speed of deployment and simplicity of operation.
Nielsen
Nielsen relates their experiences with the Netezza Twinfin's ability to satisfy the insatiable hunger for faster performance.
NYSE Euronext
The NYSE relates their experiences with the Netezza family of appliances' ability to answer the challenge of scalability.

