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"The dollar savings you make through greater energy
efficiency are nice," said Jim Baum, President
and COO at Netezza. "But for many firms the real
issue here is that they are simply finding it unfeasible
to increase the performance of their datacentre because
they can't get the power and cooling in."
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After founding Watertown-based Lava-Storm Inc. during
the bubble days and subsequently launching the Advanced
Systems Lab for Hewlett-Packard, new Netezza Corp. chief
technology officer Justin Lindsey got a call from the
U.S. government.
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Energy efficiency is fast becoming a key consideration
for data warehousing and IT as a whole.
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As business intelligence becomes a strategic imperative,
is your infrastructure ready to handle it?
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What Works: By boosting performance by orders of magnitude,
the Netezza architecture allows Ahold's merchandising
teams to perform much faster, more sophisticated analyses
of customer buying patterns.
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Ellen Rubin speaks about the future of the data warehouse
appliance market, the ways that Netezza differentiates
itself and the major issues they are seeing with their
customers and prospects.
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A technology developed to map the human genome years
ago was recently used by the Democratic National Committee
to profile something nearly as complicated: the American
voter.
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Gus Bickford, president of Factorum Productions, said
that one improvement that the DNC made was to move its
databases to Netezza, a database appliance that's known
for very high speed. "When you're able to run your
queries, the turn around time becomes less with Netezza."
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Democrats had at least one more weapon at hand during
this election cycle that had lagged behind Republicans
in prior elections: vast databases of public and commercial
data that were used to find and target likely Democratic
voters in a method politicos called microtargeting.
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Behind every big success these days, there's probably
some darned good IT making it happen. That appears to
be the case in the surprising electoral victory by the
Democratic Party last week.
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New England Business Day discusses the role played by
the Netezza Performance Server system in the 2006 election.
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In this New England Business segment, Paul Davis, CEO
of IISi, discusses Netezza's role in rebuilding the
Democratic National Committee's voter database.
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A data warehouse appliance made by Netezza Corp. of
Framingham was the key component of a national voter
file system designed for the Democratic National Committee.
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The Netezza appliance allows the DNC to process the
200 million files - one for each voter - and 900 fields
for each file 20 times faster than it could in the past.
Since the overhaul, the DNC has increased the number
of high-quality phone numbers in its database by 20%.
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Deployed at iBasis in just 12 weeks between January
and March, the Netezza-Sunopsis combo has improved performance
dramatically. "We are now pushing the transactions
into the data warehouse in less than an hour,"
Saponar says. "The benefits are really the combination
of speed of transfer of the information [the ETL process]
as well as the very fast [Netezza] appliance for retrieval."
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The problem with using summary data to drive niche marketing
it that it lacks the detail necessary to identify and
target specific groups or behavior types. "When
you summarize or aggregate at various levels, you lose
another layer of nuance," says Phil Francisco,
director of product marketing for Netezza.
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"When we had a data warehouse that updated every
few weeks, we could only use it for long term trend
analysis," says Steve Hawkins, senior designer
at Orange UK. "Now, we use it to provide more operational
information, like the current status of a customer."
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"A high percentage of our business is repeat business,
and that means companies are...betting more mission-critical
applications on the appliance," said Netezza president
and chief operating officer, Jim Baum.
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Baum said he wants to help the company grow by expanding
its distribution channels. He expects to grow the number
of industries it serves as well as expanding the number
of international customers.
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TDWI Radio News: Deconstructing the Appliance Model
- An interview with Bill Blake, senior vice president
for product development, Netezza.
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Netezza's Rubin has played a key role in making Netezza
prosper in a market long dominated by established vendors
like IBM and EMC, and she emphasizes the role of risk-taking
in opening up a new market.
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"My objective, whether as CEO or COO, is to be
part of a winning team," Jim Baum, Netezza COO,
said.
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Few modern businesses are as competitive as today's
mobile phone companies. Orange last year raised the
stakes in the market with data warehouse technology
from Netezza.
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"This key data is then used to assess the previous
week's performance and make crucial business decisions
relating to sales and merchandising," says Jagpal
Jheeta, business development manager at Debenhams.
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Executives at Ahold started wondering if they could
push their usage of this data even further to see which
customers are most likely to buy if offered a coupon,
and even why customers come into the store in the first
place.
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Moreover, Netezza itself has been certified to operate
with a wide array of business intelligence and data
integration vendors. Indeed, single-purpose computing
seems to be a growing trend.
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Craig Stewart, UK technical director at Sunopsis commented:
'The winning combination of Sunopsis Data Conductor
that loads and transforms huge volumes of data in very
short time windows, and of the Netezza Performance Server
that stores and processes this data with incredibly
high performance, provides Debenhams management with
access to extensive and accurate data that they can
use to make informed business decisions'.
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IBM's DB2 update not only packs breakthrough XML handling
but also lashes out at the data warehousing appliance
gang. According to Bloor Research's Phillip Howard,
"[IBM is trying] to minimize the management overhead,"
he said. "I don't think that goes the whole way
to answer the threat of Netezza, but Oracle hasn't moved
at all to compete with [that threat]."
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Netezza has built a data warehouse 'appliance' that
makes Teradata's price list look like it is stuck in
the mainframe era.
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Companies can now understand what their customers are
thinking today - not last week or last month.
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Building a grid with appliances - each a grid itself
- and general-purpose components leverages the different
technologies in a way that improves overall performance
and resource management. The approach is cost-effective,
easy to manage and provides an enterprise computing
environment greater than the sum of its parts.
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The bottom line is that data warehouse appliances have
gone from a novelty item to a proven offering.
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"An organisation needs a data warehouse system
specifically designed to handle complex BI analyses.
The ideal system combines massively parallel hardware,
software and storage, and is directly focused on providing
optimal response times and scalability at the multi-terabyte
level," says Dan Vesset, Research Director, Analytics
and Data Warehousing, IDC.
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"Rather than create aggregates of data, you can
push the processing down to where the disks are, so
you don't have to transfer data from disks to server
farms," explains Phil Francisco, director of product
marketing for Netezza. "Then you query at the speed
you read the disks. You also save overhead from the
database administration level, because of the simplicity
of the approach."
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Claudia Imhoff interviews Netezza at TDWI show.
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They know what it's like to take a startup from a marketable
concept to IPO or, these days, a buyout or merger with
a bigger company.
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Carphone Warehouse has managed to become Europe's leading
independent retailer of mobile phones and services.
David Parfett, head of relational technologies, attributes
the growth to the Netezza Performance Server.
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Marketing Muscle: Catalina ups the targeting ante with
data warehousing appliance. By transitioning its traditional
OLAP configuration to a more cost-effective data warehouse
appliance, Catalina achieved faster query speeds and
improved manageability.
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The concept isn't new, so why are DW appliances getting
attention now? It's the confluence of market factors
that has made it possible for emerging vendors to ease
the performance integration burden of DW shops.
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