IBM Makes Offer for Netezza

September 20, 2010 1 Comment

Nothing is final, but it looks like Netezza could be part of the IBM empire:

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) agreed to acquire data specialist Netezza Corp. (NZ) in a deal valued at $1.7 billion, as Big Blue expands its analytics business.

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Netezza provides technology that allows companies and government agencies to quickly analyze huge amounts of data–something IBM says will give it an advantage in its analytics business.

Netezza offers “a much simpler way to get started on analytics and data warehousing than anyone else in the industry,” said Arvind Krishna, IBM general manager for information management. He told Dow Jones Newswires Netezza’s system can be operated by one person instead of “an army of people” and that it provides increased performance at a lower cost.

Of course Netezza does spatial as well so it will be interesting to see what happens in this space with the IBM R&D behind it.

The big news tonight though is Hawaii Five-0 is back!

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Netezza’s Spatial Extension to Data Warehouse Appliance

September 12, 2008 4 Comments

All Points Blog has the news that Netezza is set to release a “spatial extension” to their Data Warehouse Appliance.  You may  not think you know much about Netezza, but know that their success keeps Larry Ellison up at night.  There was some discussion on this blog about super fast geospatial analysis and what the target would be.  I think basically Netezza is trying to solve problems that we currently can’t do with existing spatial databases in both scale and speed.  I wouldn’t suspect seeing their product replacing Oracle Spatial or SQL Server, but for those who have the money to pay for the product this could help them answer questions they cannot do right now.  For most of us, just sit back and marvel at what you could do if money was no option and know that in a year or two, much of this technology will be in your hands.  Peter Batty says he’ll be blogging more about what exactly this means in the next week.  Can’t wait to read it.

This type of spatial analysis was only found on Star Trek

This is Star Trek quality spatial data analysis folks

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