Trust and Governance for Enterprise Data Now Available on Netezza Data Warehousing Appliances

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., — August 18, 2009 — Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, today announced the Netezza Mantra® appliance, the first solution to offer database activity monitoring integrated with Netezza’s data warehouse appliances. The Netezza Mantra appliance offers comprehensive discovery, monitoring, auditing and analytics of all compliance-sensitive data and activities across Netezza enterprise data warehouse appliances including the recently announced Netezza TwinFin™ product. Netezza’s Mantra solution delivers complete compliance visibility and risk management with the highest performance and lowest total cost of ownership.

“Netezza’s recent TwinFin announcement and the follow-on family of products extended our leadership for price/performance and investment protection across enterprise scale warehouse appliances. With the introduction of the Mantra appliance, Netezza continues to broaden its product portfolio by adding a new dimension to the enterprise warehouse environment – that of trust, security and compliance.” said Jim Baum, president and CEO of Netezza. “With the Mantra appliance integrated within Netezza’s offerings, we now offer a robust, trust-worthy data warehouse appliance that will enable our enterprise customers to get ahead of and fully manage compliance, governance and security requirements.”

According to Gartner, “DAM [database activity monitoring] provides enterprises with specialized event collection and analysis capabilities for compliance reporting and security management, which are increasingly important because of auditors' strong focus on the identification and protection of personally identifiable information, personal health information and other regulated data types.”¹

About Netezza Mantra

The Netezza Mantra appliance with its patent-pending technology provides all the tenets for comprehensive enterprise database activity monitoring. For data owners, compliance and security officers, Netezza Mantra provides:

• Critical data discovery;
• Continuous monitoring and auditing access to critical data;
• Analysis, detection and protection against any non-compliance or data theft; and
• Ready-to-use data compliance reports for SOX, PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, GLBA, and many other popular regulatory requirements.

“The Mantra appliance has been a leading technology platform in the enterprise data auditing space with the broadest coverage of different types of data. With the addition of Netezza data warehouse environments, we are excited to raise the bar on trust across enterprise data,” said Prat Moghe, general manager, Data Compliance, Netezza and founder of Tizor Systems, Inc, which was acquired by Netezza in February of 2009. “The vision for the Mantra appliance is to offer enterprises a single pane of visibility into their data compliance and data governance posture.”

The Netezza Mantra appliance is available immediately. For more information on the appliance, visit http://datacompliance.netezza.com. For more information on data auditing and compliance requirements, visit http://datacompliance.netezza.com/data_auditing_blog.

Netezza Mantra appliances will be demonstrated at the Company’s upcoming Enzee Universe 2009 World Tour, which begins September 2, 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts.

About Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ)

Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics across an extended enterprise. Netezza’s technology enables organizations to process enormous amounts of captured data at exceptional speed, providing a significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s data-intensive industries, including digital media, energy, financial services, government, health and life sciences, retail and telecommunications. Netezza is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts and has offices in Northern Virginia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

¹Gartner, Inc., Database Activity Monitoring Market Overview, Jeffrey Wheatman and Mark Nicolett, February 3, 2009.

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Netezza® TwinFin™ and the Netezza logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Netezza Corporation. Mantra® is a registered trademark of Tizor Systems, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netezza. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.