12.31.2007

Paul Froggatt, information management manager at Virgin Media, says, "Our vision and strategy is to bring our information assets into a single consolidated environment that will deliver intelligence to the enterprise as a whole. The goal is to produce an holistic view of individuals as customers and identify all the relationships they have with us and our product sets."
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12.28.2007

Measuring IT value is only as accurate as the data that people have to analyze. Simplifying business intelligence data management could help, explains Jim Baum, president and COO of Netezza, in this IT Link podcast.
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12.21.2007

Appliance vendor Netezza beat off competition from Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard to provide the North European operations of UKbased travel services firm Thomas Cook Group with a data warehousing platform.
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12.19.2007

Speaking of data warehouse appliances, another major event, perhaps not immediately obvious, was the successful IPO of Netezza. While this was certainly a key event for the company, it would not qualify as a major industry event unless it also impacted the overall data warehousing industry. I believe it does.
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12.18.2007

Netezza's streaming architecture is built on the FPGA-Accelerated Streaming Technology (FAST) Engines framework, which consists of several analytic functions that are programmed and customized at run-time in the FPGA to deliver performance advantages and enhanced capabilities for the NPS system.
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12.12.2007

Why the Appliance is gaining on
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12.10.2007

Netezza customer Guido Sacchi, CIO of CompuCredit, named one of Computerworld's Premier 100 - a group of IT leaders who broke down communication and departmental barriers to get cutting-edge projects off the ground.
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12.8.2007

Eric Williams, CIO of Catalina Marketing, has practically automated the process of predictive analytics using Netezza's data warehouse appliance, SAS's Enterprise Miner, and a research tool developed in-house that directs people to surveys about their buying habits; in reward, they get store discounts.
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12.7.2007

"The good news is that all of the industry megatrends are in our favor," said James Baum, president and COO of Netezza. "Those trends have created a very nive Opportunity to grow."
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12.6.2007

Netezza said its compression approach differs from other techniques used by rival database providers in that it's specifically designed to improve performance and not just to reduce data size and footprint.
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12.2007

Netezza's data warehouse appliances have allowed CompuCredit to continue to expand, even as data volumes have increased and requests for business intelligence reports have grown exponentially.
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11.20.2007

In this TDWI What Works interview, Phil Francisco explains how a data warehouse appliance built specifically for high-performance data warehousing can consume significantly less power and generate less heat.
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11.2007

Catalina Marketing won the award by using a combination of improved technology around a (Netezza) data warehouse appliance designed for increased data access and innovative use of customer incentive programs based on new data insights.
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10.31.2007

Ellen Rubin discusses the success of their recent international user conference, explains the Netezza Developer Network, and describes the power of the appliance approach for real-time analysis and predictive analytics.
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10.31.2007

Netezza Cites Three Warehouses Over 50 Terabytes
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10.26.2007

Data Warehouse Appliances Get Attention
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10.22.2007

My Trip to the Netezza User Conference
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10.22.2007

And yet Netezza's technology isn't standing still...
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10.15.2007

IndUS Business Journal profiles Jit Saxena after recent IPO and being named a 2007 Technology All-Star by Mass High Tech magazine.
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10.12.2007

Data warehouse appliance firm Netezza recently wrapped up its first international user conference as a publicly-held firm, calling the event an unqualified success.
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10.5.2007

The Four Horsemen of Data Warehousing
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10.2.2007

Secondhand Lions
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10.01.2007

Abercrombie & Fitch's initial steps on its journey into the future involved bringing on more people and making changes to discipline and control processes. The next step was "starting to define the technologies for our future," says CIO, Kristen Blum. "Our mission is to support and enable the business, but also to drive a lot of what the needs are and enable growth opportunities by getting ahead from the technology perspective."
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9.28.2007

Appliances are changing the game in data warehousing, and if Netezza has its way, its appliance will also bring big changes to predictive analytics and other forms of high-demand analytic and algorithmic analyses.
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9.28.2007

Facebook didn't happen in Boston. But EMC, Akamai, Genzyme, Netezza, Equalogic, and a host of other world class companies did.
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9.26.2007

Netezza is giving developers access to a network of online resources that will help them to develop analytic algorithms that take advantage of NPS' high-performance streaming query architecture.
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9.25.2007

Robert Becklund provides an overview of 10e Solutions, explains the reasons they have partnered with Netezza, talks about data-related trends, and describes how 10e Solutions enables companies to analyze cost and value on very large data sets.
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9.25.2007

Jesse Sims discusses Business Objects partnership with Netezza, how they provide the full spectrum of BI on top of Netezza, the rise in importance of unstructured data, their SaaS offerings and how their customers benefit from advanced analytics.
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9.25.2007

Kerry Reilly explains how Unica develops software to help automate and optimize the marketing process, discusses current trends, and describes how Netezza provides the horsepower to process large volumes of marketing data for Unica customers.
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9.25.2007

Paul Earsy shares how Ingrian offers an enterprise-wide encryption and key management solution for protecting personally identifiable information and describes how their customers benefit from Ingrian's partnership with Netezza.
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9.25.2007

Patrick Crago explains their focus on big data management problems, describes how they help manage data and perform analytics against it, adds how Netezza fits into their offerings and shares the benefits of the partnership for their customers.
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9.25.2007

Neil Cleasby talks about Rate Integration's product offering and how it integrates with the Netezza platform, explaining how their product can help answer questions about the impact of different pricing models across a full volume of data.
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9.25.2007

Rich gives us insight into the Netezza Developer Network, an initiative that enables third-party developers to move applications to the Netezza platform, and about the spatial toolkit they've developed.
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9.23.2007

Indeed, the infrastructure and enterprise products scorned by Internet highfliers early in the decade - from data storage equipment to accounting software - have become platforms of growth and stability in today's technology economy. And global sales of these products have climbed as the dollar has declined against foreign currencies, providing a cushion as the US economy slows.
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9.18.2007

Business intelligence and data warehouse trends: Appliances and "third-generation" BI (Part )
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9.17.2007

It is magic! A data warehouse appliance is giving Virgin Media performance, simplicity and affordability.
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9.13.2007

Business intelligence and data warehouse trends: Appliances and "third-generation" BI (Part 1)
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9.11.2007

Business Objects joins the growing list of software companies offering virtual appliances compatible with the VMware infrastructure.
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9.2007

For many companies, the ability to deliver data as rapidly and efficiently as possible to end users that need it goes right to the bottom line. In the case of iBasis, the deployment of its data warehouse appliances enables decision makers to execute complex analyses against increasingly detailed data, which further enhances the company's management of call routing and rating to optimize gross profit. In addition, providing cost-efficient communications services represents a tremendous revenue growth opportunity.
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9.5.2007

Netezza Inc. announced Release 4 (R4) of Netezza Performance Server (NPS), its signature DW appliance. Thanks to its NPS refresh, Netezza says it's able to deliver twice the query performance-on all Netezza systems. One upshot, Netezza officials say, is that NPS R4 enhances query performance on existing NPS hardware-at no additional cost.
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9.4.2007

The Lowdown on Warehouse Appliances
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8.29.2007

Netezza is in the red-hot market of data warehousing, which allows companies to manage their complex digital infrastructures. At the same time, the company faces megarivals such as Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and NCR's Teradata. But as seen with last week's fiscal second-quarter report, Netezza knows how to deal with the pressure.
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8.28.2007

Jit Saxena, CEO of data warehouse appliance maker Netezza-a key Teradata competitor-told eWEEK that the NCR split into two companies will be good for the data warehousing industry as a whole.
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8.27.2007

The informatics division of Premier Inc. a San Diego-based health care alliance owned by 200 hospitals, this spring ousted the system that provided data analysis to 400 hospitals, said Chris Stewart, senior architect in the informatics division. The division replaced its IBM Red Brick Warehouse SQL-based relational database with a Netezza data warehouse appliance for the core analysis it offers to the hospitals, he said.
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8.21.2007

Netezza, a leader in the data warehouse appliance market, announced the latest release of its Netezza Performance Server (NPS) system yesterday. "This is a milestone for us on many levels," Ellen Rubin, vice president of marketing. "We created the first data warehouse appliance and now the entire industry has embraced the concept."
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8.2007

Netezza Corp. today announced Release 4 of the Netezza Performance Server (NPS), its integrated hardware and software better known as a data warehouse appliance. The Release 4 upgrades are all within the software and are said to double the performance of both current and previous generations of the company's hardware -- without increases in price, hardware footprint or power or cooling requirements.
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8.16.2007

Corporate Express, which now uses an Oracle 10g database-based enterprise data warehouse, expects to begin using Netezza Corp.'s Performance Server appliance this fall to power a new data mart that will let customers run Web-based queries about their purchasing history, said Matt Schwartz, director of business analysis at Corporate Express US.
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7.3.2007

Business intelligence consistently tops CIO spending priority lists as it continues to spread its wings into more corporate departments. For example, Virgin Media has adopted Netezza's NPS data warehouse appliance for complex BI querying of customer call data sourced from its various merged and re-branded NTL, Telewest and Virgin Mobile companies.
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7.3.2007

Virgin Media found that moving its database over to a dedicated datawarehouse server was the best way to optimise its data querying and analysis operations. The firm is currently trialling the Netezza Performance Server datawarehouse appliance, which it has found performs queries several times faster than its previous database system.
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6.2007

Visions of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Andy Summers abound. What could be better? Perhaps having rich, meaningful data to make the job easier and more profitable.
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5.16.2007

Virgin Media has dumped an Oracle system to analyse customer data, and will instead use a Netezza data warehouse platform. Virgin Media is to standardise its enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) platforms on the faster Netezza Performance Server (NPS) systems.
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5.2007

Increasing power costs and increasingly constrained power availability are prompting many companies to reexamine their IT strategies and budgets.
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4.3.2007

The e-commerce industry continues to grow more competitive by the day. Online retailers that want to stay ahead of the pack need to have the most accurate and up-to-date information on hand at all times, in order to ensure that they have a solid grasp of their customer base in order to stay competitive in the ever-changing online marketplace.
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3.23.2007

News on a Friday? Yes and Its Cool!
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3.14.2007

Netezza is packaging Business Objects' Crystal Decision BI platform for mid-sized companies with its data warehouse appliance. The bundle is available in 1 terabyte and 3 terabyte configurations.
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3.7.2007

Buyers don't have to wait until Monday to review sales trends; they can run those analytic reports when they want, and if they see an item selling fast in one region, they can jump on an opportunistic buy to boost profitability.
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3.2.2007

Database Appliances in Transaction Processing
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2.12.2007

"The Netezza system runs literally two orders of magnitude faster than a comparable traditional architecture system, like an Oracle system, and it's cheaper than that," said Richard Zimmerman, IISi's president and chief technology officer.
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2.2.2007

Why are data warehouse appliances consistently able to outperform general-purpose systems to uncover deeply buried customer and operational trends? What accounts for their low total cost of ownership and ease of use in the data center?
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2.2007

"Combined with the Netezza appliance we have achieved some great increases in pre-processing of data and so we can now do things much quicker - literally a four hour or even overnight query on the old AS/400 is down to minutes," says Richard Verhoeff, director of IT and e-commerce at Center Parcs.
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1.29.2007

Vishal Daga, interviewed for this podcast at MicroStrategy World, speaks to the core values of Netezza and its relationship with MicroStrategy.
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1.27.2007

Data Warehouse Appliance Hardware Strategies
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1.24.2007

Justin Lindsey is now chief technology officer at Netezza, the data warehouse appliance company. Lindsey was former deputy chief information officer and chief technology officer for the United States Department of Justice and chief technology officer for the FBI.
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1.22.2007

Getting storage infrastructure both up to size and up to speed are top agenda items for enterprise IT builders, as Peter Coffee discusses with President and COO Jim Baum of data warehouse appliance provider Netezza.
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1.15.2007

New BI tools can provide an appliance-based approach that works within an existing IT infrastructure, which is easier to operate and maintain-and cheaper, says Jim Baum, president and COO of data warehouse appliance provider Netezza.
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1.9.2007

Of course NCR's decision to pull apart Teradata might also be a response to increased competitive pressure in the market, particularly from new data warehouse appliance vendors like Netezza Corp and Datallegro Inc who are starting to nibble away at its market, as well as entrants in the enterprise data warehousing market like Hewlett-Packard Co.
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1.8.2007

Teradata Steps into the Light
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1.8.2007

Jit Saxena, CEO of data-warehouse appliance maker Netezza - a key Teradata competitor - told eWEEK that the split into two companies will be good for the data warehousing industry as a whole.
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