| A new appliance from Netezza
Corp. promises to increase the performance of business intelligence
queries by 10 to 20 times.
The Netezza Performance Server 8000, or NPS, combines server,
storage and database technologies in one appliance that acts as a
standalone data warehouse. In this way it is optimized to handle the
exploding amount of business data that is being kept today.
Introduced this week, the NPS 8000 device's Intelligent Query
Streaming feature optimizes the flow of data into and out of
business intelligence applications by filtering out streaming data
that would be irrelevant to the query at hand. It captures data in
silicon processors placed right next to the storage disk's output to
provide the highest performance.
The NPS 8000 has an Asymmetric Massively Parallel Processing
architecture that is designed for scalability, said officials at the
Framingham, Mass.-based startup. This architecture combines elements
of SMP and MPP architectures.
Pricing for the NPS starts at $622,000 for a configuration with
4.5 terabytes of storage. Configurations with up to 18 terabytes of
storage are also available. Larger configurations are due out next
year, Netezza officials said.
This story was edited to correct information on the
availability of Netezza's 18 terabyte system.
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