IBM Netezza high-performance data warehouse appliances have revolutionized
how organizations approach data warehousing and analytics. Engineered from the
ground up for analysis of large data volumes, these appliances are purpose-built
to make advanced analytics simpler, faster and more accessible. They offer a
complete solution that integrates database, advance analytics, server and storage
together to deliver performance, value and simplicity organizations need to
handle their rapidly expanding data.
The IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance family is comprised of three lines,
the IBM Netezza 1000 series, the IBM Netezza High Capacity Appliance series
and the IBM Netezza 100 test and development unit. These appliances have set
the standard for analytical processing power — now scaling into the petabytes
— while significantly lowering the total cost of ownership. This translates
into a powerful, cost effective and easy-to-install way for organizations to
scale their business intelligence (BI) and analytical infrastructure.
Each IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance features IBM Netezza Analytics, an
embedded software platform that fuses data warehousing and predictive analytics
to provide petascale performance. IBM Netezza Analytics provides the technology
infrastructure to support enterprise deployment of parallel in-database analytics.
The programming interfaces and parallelization options make it straightforward
to move a majority of analytics inside the appliance, regardless of whether
they are being performed using tools such as IBM SPSS or SAS or written in languages
such as R, C/C++ or Java.
IBM Netezza Analytics is designed to accelerate analytic queries and shorten
query times, effectively providing better and faster answers to the most sophisticated
business questions.
Maximum performance
A key performance advantage of the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance family
comes from its patented Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing (AMPP™)
architecture. AMPP combines open, blade-based servers and commodity disk storage
with IBM's patented data filtering using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
This combination delivers blisteringly fast query performance and modular scalability
on highly complex mixed workloads, and supports tens of thousands of BI, advanced
analytics and data warehouse users.
IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances are designed to minimize time-consuming
ongoing administrative tasks needed to maintain traditional databases. Eliminated
administrative tasks include query indexing, storage management, buffer pool
tuning, memory allocation and schema optimization. This results in a reduction
in dependence upon the IT staff, a cut in total cost of ownership and a shorter
time-to-value.
The IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance family is simple to acquire, simple
to deploy, simple to run, simple to maintain, while providing unmatched performance
and value.
Data warehousing
IBM Netezza's approach to data warehousing
At IBM, we believe that data warehousing shouldn't be complicated. Instead
of spending time making data warehouses run efficiently, IBM Netezza data warehouse
appliance users deploy purpose-built data warehouse appliances that solve real
business problems. IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances are installed quickly
and easily, integrate with preferred ETL and BI tools and can be largely left
alone to get on with the job.
IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances are proven to provide true business value
to customers very quickly with a minimal investment of money, time and effort.
IBM's approach to data warehousing is very different from what is offered by
vendors such as Oracle and Teradata. The IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances
are purpose-built for crunching massive volumes of data quickly and efficiently.
This enables organizations to realize business value quickly, and analytically
explore areas previously unimagined. Competitive offerings just aren't able
to do that.
Those traditional vendors are now offering their own versions of systems that
are similar to IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances. For the most part, however,
these are simply a repackaging of current technology and come with the same
limitations: poor performance, complexity, high administrative costs and lack
of scale.
In addition, every IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance is delivered with IBM
Netezza Analytics, an embedded software platform for advanced analytics. It
provides the technology infrastructure to support enterprise deployments of
parallel, in-database analytics. Support for a variety of popular tools and
languages as well as a built-in library of parallelized analytic functions make
it simple to move analytic modeling and scoring inside the data warehouse appliance.
IBM Netezza Analytics is fully integrated into the IBM Netezza data warehouse
asymmetric massively parallel processing (AMPP) architecture enabling data exploration,
model-building, model-diagnostics and scoring with unprecedented speed.
Experience it for yourself. Test drive an IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance
against your own data and queries to see what it can do for your business. Click
here to find out more www.netezza.com/testdrive.
