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IBM Netezza 1000

Philip Howard of Bloor Research says,

"This is what Netezza has done in the data warehousing market: it has totally changed the way that we think about data warehousing."

IBM Netezza 1000

IBM Netezza 1000

The IBM Netezza 1000 is the company's flagship data warehouse appliance. It is a purpose-built, standards-based data warehouse appliance that architecturally integrates database, server and storage into a single, easy-to-manage system. It is a high-performance appliance that can serve as an enterprise data warehouse, data mart, edge appliance or a data integration hub. Scaling from 1 TB to 1.5 petabytes, IBM Netezza 1000 data warehouse appliances are designed for rapid analysis of large data volumes, delivering 10-100x performance improvements at a much lower cost compared to other options available from traditional database vendors.

With its powerful multicore CPU configuration, the IBM Netezza 1000 is designed to harness the power of all the computational cores in the appliance, to offer significant performance and scalability. A versatile appliance, it is expandable to up to 10 racks, hosting up to 120 S-Blades and 960 CPU and FPGA cores. The IBM Netezza 1000 delivers proven performance, value and simplicity to organizations enabling them to ask questions and execute complex analytics never before contemplated.

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.

Key product highlights:

  • The IBM Netezza 1000 delivers high-performance out-of-the-box, with no indexing or tuning required leading to shorter deployment cycles and faster time to value
  • The appliance is delivered ready-to-go for immediate data loading and query execution and integrates with all leading ETL, BI and analytic applications
  • Powerful platform — brings together high-performance data warehousing, business intelligence and advanced analytics in one easy to use appliance
  • Appliance simplicity — easy to deploy and manage; dramatically simplifies organizational data warehouse and analytics infrastructures