Data Auditing Appliance Automates Security Compliance Requirements

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.,—March 31, 2010— Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, today announced Epocrates, a leader in health information technologies, has chosen the Netezza® Mantra® data compliance and auditing solution to support their security compliance initiatives.

Mantra's ease-of-use and ability to audit hundreds of heterogeneous databases in real-time make it the ideal solution for Epocrates, which develops clinical software used by more than 900,000 healthcare professionals to help improve patient safety, practice efficiencies and save time. Beyond its top ranked free drug reference software, Epocrates offers premium decision support software clinicians can securely purchase online.

"With the Netezza Mantra appliance supporting our systems, we are able to assure a high level of compliance with a degree of automation not possible before," said Kate Schafer, senior vice president of engineering at Epocrates. "Database auditing and activity monitoring can substantially reduce the cost and resource impact of compliance requirements imposed by regulations. We systematically evaluated a variety of technologies available, and the Netezza Mantra appliance was the solution with the lowest total cost of ownership, highest ease-of-use and greatest scalability."

Working with Epocrates reflects Netezza's growth in the enterprise compliance industry, delivering tremendous performance and ROI though the Mantra appliance's patented architecture in discovery, auditing and analytics.

"Continuous monitoring and auditing of transactional databases is becoming mandatory for all companies conducting e-commerce, including healthcare technology organizations," said Prat Moghe, vice president and general manager of the Data Compliance division at Netezza. "Supporting Epocrates' security compliance needs further validates a key benefit of the Netezza Mantra solution—the lowest total cost of ownership available in the industry. We are committed to working with Epocrates to meet their regulatory compliance requirements without negatively impacting their business or IT resources."

About Netezza Corporation

Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ) is the global leader in data warehouse, analytic, and monitoring 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 compliance, 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, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

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