Mantra Selected a 2010 Best Products and Services Winner

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., — June 28, 2010 — Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, today announced that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named the Netezza® Mantra® data compliance and auditing solution a winner of the 2010 Best Products and Services Award. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of the end-users of technology worldwide. As part of the tech industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services award winners were nominated from all over the world.

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

• Critical data discovery of heterogeneous databases such as Netezza, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, and MySQL;
• Continuous monitoring and auditing of access to critical data;
• Analysis, detection and protection against any non-compliant activity or data theft; and
• Ready-to-use data compliance reports for SOX, PCI, HIPAA, FISMA, GLBA, and many other regulatory requirements.

“Increased end-user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services,” said Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. “The easy to use and highly scalable Netezza Mantra solution substantially reduces the cost and resource impacts of database auditing and activity monitoring imposed by compliance requirements.”

“Continuous monitoring in support of data compliance and security initiatives is becoming mandatory for all companies today," said Prat Moghe, senior vice president of strategy and new markets and general manager, data compliance at Netezza. "The Netezza Mantra solution offers the lowest total cost of ownership available in the industry. We are committed to working with our customers to meet their regulatory compliance requirements without negatively impacting their business or IT resources."

For more information on the Mantra solution, visit http://datacompliance.netezza.com, and for more information on data auditing and compliance requirements, visit http://datacompliance.netezza.com/data_auditing_blog.

About Network Products Guide Awards

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About Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ)

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, Poland, Japan, Korea, Australia and Singapore. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.

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