NETEZZA NAMED AS FINALIST IN BRITISH COMPUTING SOCIETY IT INDUSTRY AWARDS

Bracknell, Berkshire. — November 5th, 2007 — Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), the global leader in analytic appliances, today announced that it has been named a finalist in the British Computing Society IT Industry Awards. Nominated along with its customer Orange UK in the Best Use of Green Computing category, Netezza is among innovative finalists being considered for the project that ‘sets itself apart from the crowd’. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner on 6th December at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

The award judges are reviewing how Orange has reduced the power consumption of its data warehouse by 72% by moving its enterprise platform to Netezza. Additionally, while the volume of information stored in Orange’s data centre has continued to grow, the conversion to Netezza has resulted in a significant decrease in the Company’s data warehouse footprint as compared to its previous environment, with cabinet spaces decreasing from 26 to nine. The mobile phone and broadband giant realised these savings after installing its first Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) data warehouse appliance over four years ago.

Prior to implementing Netezza, physical floor space and data warehouse performance had started to hinder Orange’s Business Intelligence processes. Steve Hawkins, Senior Data Architect at Orange explains, “Space and power are always at a premium within our data centres. The NPS solution saved large amounts of both whilst providing increased performance. The speed and ease of deployment was an added bonus.”

With its previous 1.5 TB data warehouse configuration, Orange was consuming almost 25,000 Watts (W) and 85,000 British Thermal Units (BTU) per hour. Following the implementation of a 3 TB Netezza data warehouse appliance, the Company’s power consumption dropped to 7,000 W and 24,000 BTU per hour. The data warehouse at Orange is now almost three times more power efficient and uses approximately one third of the Watts it used to. It has also reduced its cooling requirements by around 72% - in both BTU and Watts.

David Clarke, BCS Chief Executive Officer says, “Year on year the standard of entries increases, and this year is no exception with innovative projects which showcase excellence in IT. The next stage of judging will be very difficult as our expert panel endeavours to select the outright winners for each award.”

Designed specifically for high-performance, terascale analytics, the NPS system architecturally integrates a relational database, server and storage into a single compact and power-efficient unit. The system’s advantage comes from its patented Intelligent Query Streaming™ design. Netezza has placed processing power next to the data, so analysis occurs at the source at streaming speeds, delivering an unprecedented 10-100 times the performance of traditional systems at a fraction of the cost. Analyses that took days now take just seconds. This means a dramatic increase in productivity across the enterprise and faster time to value for business initiatives. Netezza appliances are changing the way organizations leverage information, creating a powerful analytic foundation for a new generation of business analytics that improve strategic decision-making and drive results.

About Netezza
Netezza (NYSE Arca: NZ) is the global leader in analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s information-intensive marketplaces. The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of streaming analytic™ appliances brings appliance simplicity to a broad range of complex data warehouse and analytic challenges. Customers who have realized the benefits of Netezza appliances include Ahold, Amazon.com, CNET Networks, Debenhams, Department of Veterans Affairs, Epsilon, Neiman Marcus, Orange UK, Premier, Inc., Ross Stores, Ryder System, Inc., The Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media. Based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.co.uk.

Netezza, Netezza Performance Server, NPS, Intelligent Query Streaming and streaming analytic are trademarks of Netezza Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.