The Netezza Server

The Netezza TwinFin™ system is the fourth generation Netezza appliance that once again sets the standard for price/performance for data warehousing and business intelligence (BI). TwinFin is a purpose-built, standards-based data appliance that architecturally integrates database, server and storage into a single, easy to manage system. TwinFin is designed for rapid analysis of data volumes scaling into the petabytes, delivering 10-100x performance improvements at a third of the cost of other options available from traditional database vendors.

TwinFin delivers high performance out of the box, with no indexing or tuning required. It is delivered ready-to-go for immediate data loading and query execution and integrates with all leading ETL, BI and analytic applications through standard ODBC, JDBC and OLE DB interfaces. TwinFin is easily rolled into your data center, plugged in and ready to load data in a matter of hours.

Key Product Highlights:

• Industry-leading price-performance – 10-100x the performance at 1/3 the cost of competitive offerings

• Scalability – From under 1 terabyte to petabytes

• Support for thousands of users and very complex, mixed workloads

• Commodity blade-based architecture • Appliance simplicity – No indexing or tuning; minimal ongoing administration

• Industry-standard interfaces (SQL, ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB)

• Full compatibility with market-leading BI tools, applications and infrastructure

• Enterprise-class reliability and availability – More than 99.99% uptime

• Green – Low power and cooling requirements in a compact footprint

• A platform for advanced analytics – Orders of magnitude faster performance

• Fast load speeds – Up to 2 TB/hour

• Fast backup rates – High-speed backup and restore at data rates as high as 4 TB/hour