SHERWIN-WILLIAMS ACCELERATES STORE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS WITH NETEZZA

Framingham, Mass. — February 25, 2008 — Netezza Corporation (NYSE Arca: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, today announced that The Sherwin-Williams Company has chosen Netezza for the analysis of store performance and market basket information. Sherwin-Williams is deploying a Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) appliance to provide its business users with the most up-to-date information available.

The executive team at Sherwin-Williams knew that they needed timely information in order to effectively manage store operations. Since migrating to Netezza, data query times have dropped significantly. Moving forward, Sherwin-Williams will use Netezza for extensive reporting of data to all levels of the organization.

“As the speed of business continues to accelerate, the need for timely information is essential in making the best management decisions,” said Emiro Uribe, Manager Systems Development at Sherwin-Williams. “Speed and simplicity are very important to our users.”

“We are pleased that Sherwin-Williams has chosen Netezza to speed its business analytics,” said Jim Baum, president and COO at Netezza. “For market-leading companies like Sherwin-Williams, having rapid access to inventory, marketing and consumer buying information is the competitive edge they need to move their business forward.”

The Netezza Performance Server® (NPS®) family of data warehouse and appliances are designed specifically for high-performance, terascale analytics, and architecturally integrate a relational database, server and storage into a single compact and power-efficient unit. The system’s advantage comes from its patented streaming architecture. 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 Sherwin-Williams
Founded in 1866, the Sherwin-Williams Company is a global leader in the manufacture, development, distribution, and sale of coatings and related products to professional, industrial, commercial, and retail customers. The Company manufactures products under well-known brands such as Sherwin-Williams®, Dutch Boy®, Krylon®, Minwax®, Thompson's® Water Seal®, and many more. With global headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, Sherwin-Williams® branded products are sold exclusively through a chain of 3,325 company-operated stores and facilities, while the company's other brands are sold through leading mass merchandisers, home centers, independent paint dealers, hardware stores, automotive retailers, and industrial distributors throughout North America. The Sherwin-Williams Global Group distributes a wide range of products in more than 30 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.sherwin.com.

About Netezza Corporation
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.