Recent Awards Underscore Commitment to Innovation, Performance and Results, and Build on Netezza’s Record of Industry Accolades

Framingham, Mass. — December 19, 2007— Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), the global leader in analytic appliances, today announced that the Company and its customers have recently received awards for success in business intelligence, data warehousing and analytics. Netezza customers were recognized for their technology vision and innovative use of the Netezza streaming analytic™ appliance, while Netezza CEO Jit Saxena was honored for his business leadership.

As the global leader in analytic appliances, Netezza has established a strong, proven track record of growth and innovation, with over 125 customers realizing the benefits of Netezza’s appliance approach. In 2007, Netezza became a publicly-listed company, and has been recognized in the industry for its leadership role in creating broad market acceptance and adoption of appliances for data warehousing and analytics. The company has also won many industry awards and garnered high praise from leading industry analysts. In the past, IDC has called the Netezza appliance “revolutionary,” and stated that “business analytics appliances are here to stay,”¹ and Computerworld, Computing, DM Review, Ernst & Young, eWeek, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, Intelligent Enterprise and Red Herring have awarded Netezza and its management accolades for vision and performance. Recent awards include:

• Computerworld Premier 100 Award – Honoring people who are driving strategy and innovation in top-tier IT departments, this award recognized CompuCredit CIO Guido Sacchi for his work in migrating query and reporting activity from the Company’s primary Oracle database to a Netezza data warehouse appliance. The move from Oracle to Netezza produced results that were 150 times faster than previously possible with the old solution, supporting faster, more accurate loan decisions for the financial services company and its customers.
  
  
• DM Review Innovative Solution Awards – Netezza customer Catalina Marketing received an award in the “business intelligence” category for its innovative use of the Netezza appliance to analyze marketing information on behalf of its customers. According to DM Review, “The combination of improved technology around a data warehouse appliance designed for increased data access and the innovative use of customer incentive programs based on new data insights makes this [solution] very innovative.” In addition, Catalina Marketing’s CIO Eric Williams was recognized by the Tampa Bay Business Forum as the CIO of the Year for his push to implement technologies that deliver state-of-the-art solutions to internal and external customers.
  
  
• Mass High Tech All-Star Awards – Netezza chairman and CEO Jit Saxena was recognized as an “All-Star” for his work in leading Netezza through its successful IPO in July of this year and for his Company’s continued momentum in the business analytics market.
  
  
• TiE-Boston IPO Award – Netezza chairman and CEO Jit Saxena received this award in recognition of Netezza’s successful IPO this past summer. The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is the nation’s largest not-for-profit organization for entrepreneurs.

“The Netezza appliance was designed to overcome the cost and performance limitations of traditional data warehouse and analytic systems, and change the way organizations unlock the intelligence in their data,” said Jit Saxena, chairman and CEO of Netezza. “Now we’re seeing the results and impact of those efforts, through the successes of customers like CompuCredit and Catalina Marketing. It’s an exciting time as adoption grows and Netezza’s analytic appliances deliver real-world results that are widely recognized as game-changing within the data warehouse, business intelligence and business analytics arenas.”

About Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ)
Netezza 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.com.

¹ “Business Analytics Appliances Are Here to Stay,” June 2006, IDC #202071

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