Basel — 8 August 2006 — Netezza Corporation, the global data warehouse appliance leader, today announced a partnership with Swiss data warehousing and data management specialists, UFD. Under the agreement, UFD becomes the reseller partner for NPS systems in Switzerland. Currently working with organisations such as Credit Suisse, Nestlé, Swisscom and UBS, UFD expects to leverage the strong value proposition of the NPS system to expand its professional services business. The partnership has already produced its first Swiss customer – a leading analytic service provider.

“Solving the issues of performance, cost, complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO) are becoming increasingly important success factors with our data warehousing and CRM projects,” explained Patrick Borel, Managing Director at Basel-based, UFD AG. "Netezza's data warehouse appliances not only address those issues, but shorten implementation time dramatically thereby opening new project options. The fast, reliable and easy installation and integration of the Netezza appliances also allow us to profit quickly from the projects. We are now able to venture in directions that are simply impossible with other technologies.”

“With the UFD partnership, Netezza adds Switzerland to our growing European footprint which includes France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and The Netherlands,” said Joe Napoli, General Manager for Netezza in Southern Europe. “Partners and customers across Europe understand the value of the NPS system and are already taking advantage of the sheer speed at which the NPS systems can process queries - shrinking output times from days or hours to just minutes or seconds and allowing them to run analyses they previously had been unable to do.”

The NPS system is the market-leading data warehouse appliance, built specifically to analyse terabytes of detailed data 10 to 100 times faster than existing data warehouse options, at half the cost. The NPS system stores, filters and processes terabytes of records within a single unit, analysing only the relevant information for each query. Netezza has placed the CPU power next to the data, allowing the NPS system to speed through processes that would occupy most data warehouse systems for hours, or even days, thereby enabling dramatic increases in productivity across the organisation. Customers who have recognized the performance benefits of Netezza’s approach include Ahold, Amazon.com, Cingular Wireless, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Epsilon, Orange UK, Pipex, Premier, Inc., Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation, The Carphone Warehouse and The TJX Companies.

About Netezza Corporation
Netezza, the global data warehouse appliance market leader, enables enterprises to make all of their data actionable – quickly, simply and affordably. The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of products delivers breakthrough performance, unmatched ease of deployment and operation, and innovative flexibility and scalability at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouse solutions. By architecturally integrating database, server and storage within a single appliance, the NPS system delivers 10 to 100 times the performance at half the cost of existing systems. Based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. The Company is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures, Battery Ventures, Orange, Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital Partners. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

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