You know it's a Netezza appliance if it has:

1. Superior Performance. With growing numbers of business users across the extended enterprise, performance has never been more challenging - or more critical to success. Netezza's unique streaming analytic architecture delivers 10 to 100 times the performance of traditional solutions, for a broad range of users requiring complex and ad hoc analyses on terabytes of information in addition to tactical queries for real-time operational advantage.
   
   
2. Low Total Cost of Ownership. The NPS appliance architecturally integrates database, server and storage into a single system using open standards and commodity components, requiring minimal ongoing administration and maintenance and resulting in a significantly lower overall total cost of ownership than other solutions. Even for large, multi-terabyte deployments, NPS systems typically require less than a single administrator to manage!
   
   
3. Quick and Easy Installation and Deployment. Netezza's appliance packaging lets customers install and deploy large, multi-terabyte environments much more rapidly than traditional systems. Data is loaded quickly and easily from source systems, and existing tools and software for business intelligence, data access and analytics, data integration and data protection all integrate in a straightforward way through standard interfaces.
   
   
4. Flexibility for Changing Business Needs. The NPS system does not require the tuning, data indexing or most of the maintenance and configuration required by traditional systems. As new data is added and models are updated, the NPS appliance can accommodate changes easily without requiring additional administrative effort.
   
   
5. Small Footprint, and Low Power and Cooling Requirements. The Netezza appliance is a compact, tightly integrated system that requires, on average, approximately 75% less power, cooling and footprint than other data warehouse options.
   
   
6. High Degree of Scalability. The NPS appliances scale effectively with additional users or more sophisticated queries. Because storage and processing are integrated into a single system, as data scales, so does processing power without diminution of performance. The NPS system scales to support hundreds of concurrent users running hundreds of concurrent queries and additional capacity can be added very quickly and easily, with "pay as they grow" pricing that allows customers to add incremental capacity at a low cost per terabyte.