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2005 Media Buzz

IT-Director.com
Philip Howard

12.23.2005

Warehouse Appliances: Boom or Bust?
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12.2005

Netezza is just one player that claims it is stealing market share from the likes of IBM, Oracle and Teradata. What's the advantage? Cost apparently. Oh, and performance. And ease of use. Phew.
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12.14.2005

"We've made progress in terms of both competing against Teradata and in terms of actually replacing them in some cases. We've made a lot of progress against them in the market," says vice-president of marketing Ellen Rubin.
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12.13.2005

Debenhams intends to replace its existing IBM-based datawarehouse with the NPS system. It said it expects to achieve better performance and lower total cost of ownership from the system..
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12.12.2005

These data warehouse appliances are plug-and-play solutions that work hand in hand with BI applications and data tools. This is a crucial consideration in the modern, global market where rapid return on business investments, including RFID deployments, determines whether a company will sink or swim.
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11.21.2005

The market is starting to see a paradigm shift away from traditional data warehousing systems, as organizations seek to cut query times down from literally days to minutes. Some appliances can deliver significantly increased performance for large, complex and constantly evolving BI efforts at half the cost of existing, general-purpose enterprise data warehouse systems.
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11.8.2005

Some of the major players in the data-warehousing-server marketplace are IBM's Informix, Oracle, NCR Teradata, SAS and the new and apparently trailblazing Netezza.
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11.8.2005

Dave Parfett, head of relational technologies at Carphone Warehouse, said Netezza would let several hundred users analyse data between 10 and 50 times faster than the company's existing datawarehouses.
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11.2005

"IT appliances directed at minimizing application complexity while still providing the required functionality and performance in a way that doesn't dramatically increase IT support resources are needed," says Scott Langdoc, a VP with Boston-based AMR Research. "Having the ability to crunch significant volumes of data without hiring two or three administrators is very compelling."
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Andy Hayler

11.2.2005

Awash with Appliances
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11.1.2005

That means that more of us will be using highly commoditized devices, designed to do a few particular things well while hitting low, low prices. That requires more inventive product planning, and the winners will be those that conceive of products with the right combination of size, features, and style--not those that wait for industry standards to emerge and do the best job of implementing them.
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10.28.2005

Where are the next giants? Few firms have emerged from the crop to match the success of Jit Saxena's Netezza Corp.
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10.21.2005

Using Netezza, Caudwell was able to assemble 40 million CDRs and apply hypothetical call pricing models to them to find the most effective rate, introducing its response before the competition had been able to introduce its new pricing.
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10.17.2005

"Netezza's appliance approach requires significantly less care and feeding than standard relational databases, thereby decreasing total cost of ownership," says Eric Schmitt, an analyst at Forrester Research.
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10.14.2005

The market for data warehouse appliances is growing quickly. Netezza is the pioneering vendor leading the data warehouse appliance trend.
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9.2005

DM Review's World Class Solution Awards mark the elite within the business intelligence, analytics and data warehousing industry. This prestigious award represents the industry's best practices - showcasing those vendors and companies that have implemented solutions that address a persistent business problem and, in turn, provide significant business value.
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9.2005

Premier, Inc. was hampered by constant, expensive upgrades to expand their storage, server, processing and data warehousing capacity to accommodate their growth. Running volumes of complex analytics queries on our IBM RedBrick database was delivering results much too late to be beneficial. Premier selected the NPS system to overcome this problem and meet future demands.
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IT-Director.com
Robin Bloor

8.30.2005

Watch Google!; The Appliance Trend; Linux PC - Slow Progress; Pat Robertson
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8.22.2005

Catalina found that the Netezza system could reduce response time "from an hour to a minute," Eric Williams, Chief Information Officer, said. Overall, it gave Catalina's database program "more scale and robustness." Catalina's IT team is now moving years of transaction data to the Netezza platform. "Every week we launch another retailer on Netezza," Williams said.
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8.17.2005

Supermarkets participating in the Catalina Marketing Network can expect a boost in their ability to offer more effective promotional communications, incentives, and loyalty programs to their shoppers as a result of a new server technology.
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8.1.2005

Epsilon Vice President of Marketing Technology Products Mike Coakley says that Netezza's product contributed significantly to a $1 million savings in Epsilon's IT budget by allowing the company to move off an aging, mainframe-based system.
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7.20.2005

By getting technology out of the way (making it an enabler rather than a bottleneck), organizations can focus on the business of marketing and generate greater returns.
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7.8.2005

Believe the Hype? Netezza has a limited track record, but customers say the startup has backed up its sounds-way-too-good-to-be-true claims.
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Enterprise Software Blog

7.6.2005

Appliances: The Future of Software?
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7.2005

Some early adopters of the Netezza appliance have reported provisioning times of four to five hours to get a working sustainable analytic environment versus four weeks to do the same thing with an Oracle/Sun/EMC infrastructure. More importantly, the performance was 10-50 times faster on the appliance.
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6.13.2005

Framingham, Mass.-based Netezza is a high-tech David slinging its appliance at the Goliaths of data warehousing.
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6.2.2005

Some industry executives argue that Pillar might have done better to target market niches. That strategy has been paying off for start-ups that include...Netezza Corp., of Framingham, Mass., which makes hardware for analyzing customer information.
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6.2005

In order to remain competitive in the fiercely fragmented UK telecommunications market, Caudwell Communications needed to make better, quicker business decisions. Enter the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) system, which allows Caudwell to quickly and affordably analyze the mountains of CDRs stored in their data warehouse.
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5.25.2005

Netezza's new NPS 10000 Series includes two models, the NPS 10400 and NPS 10800, which are designed to support data warehouse footprints of 50 and 100 terabytes, respectively.
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5.2005

What do you get when you combine a database, storage and analytics? Acording to Jit Saxena, CEO and Cofounder of Netezza Corporation, you get results from your data warehouse that you thought were impossible to achieve.
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5.12.2005

Netezza wins SBANE 2005 New England Innovation Award, selected by a panel of judges from a record 150 nominees.
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B-EYE Network
Dan Lindstedt

5.3.2005

Look into the future: Appliance Data Warehouses
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5.3.2005

What does the future Data Warehouse look like? Can it be an appliance like device? What kind of partnerships or acquisitions can we expect? Why would we choose an appliance DW over our own component selections?
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4.18.2005

Data warehousing appliance specialist Netezza Corp is set to add to its portfolio of Netezza Performance Server (NPS) products with new models aimed at warehousing requirements large and small.
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4.18.2005

Saxena certainly isn't thinking small. His ambition with Netezza is to ''build the kind of company we used to have here on the East Coast" -- a big, influential, stand-alone technology company.
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4.18.2005

"By expanding our international presence in Europe and now in the Asia Pacific region, we are building on our success in North America and the United Kingdom," said Saxena.
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4.11.2005

The NPS 8150 appliance handles the "really, really ugly questions" that weren't possible to process before, says Chris Stewart, director of data warehouse architecture, Premier. "We couldn't offer the product offerings we do today" without the appliance.
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4.1.2005

Intelligent Enterprise names Netezza 2005 Editors' Choice Company to Watch.
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ZDNet

3.28.2005

Software Start-ups Think Inside the Box
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3.28.2005

Jit Saxena, the company's CEO and co-founder, said Netezza's product design--which combines custom chips, storage and specialized software--gives it a leg up on entrenched providers such as IBM, Teradata, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard.
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IT-Director.com
Philip Howard

3.23.2005

The Rise of the Appliance
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3.22.2005

Netezza Corp., a provider of data management appliances, appointed Jon Niess to vice president of international operations, a new position for the company.
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3.1.2005

"Now, our systems can answer multiple questions per day from our clients, which reduces the cycle time and ultimately how long it takes to get campaigns up and running," said Mike Coakley of Epsilon, regarding the NPS system.
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2.14.2005

"With the legacy system, data would be several days old" by the time reports were created, said Clevenger. With the new platform, "our data will be a lot more current. That translates into better targeted customer offerings."
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2.1.2005

By replacing its legacy CDW systems with the NPS data warehouse appliance, Ahold will be able to run a wide variety of interactive analyses, while dramatically reducing query times.
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1.10.2005

Netezza Corp., a provider of data management appliances, said that it has raised $15 million in Series D funding as it plans to add nearly 100 employees in the next year.
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1.10.2005

Scannell says going head-to-head with the likes of Big Blue isn't intimidating anymore. "We spend less time talking about who is Netezza and more about the value proposition," he claims. Simplicity and cost of ownership not only help sell a data warehousing appliance, he says -- they also help distinguish Netezza from the rest of the pack.
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1.10.2005

Data warehousing appliance maker Netezza Corp. has landed $15 million in late-stage financing led by Meritech Capital of Palo Alto, Calif., as it prepares to turn the corner to profitability.
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