Netezza's Bill Blake to Speak at SC06 Conference.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Netezza:

Who:    Bill Blake, senior vice president of product development at
        Netezza.

What:   Bill Blake will be a featured speaker at SC06, the premier
        international conference for high-performance computing,
        networking, storage and analysis, and will deliver a
        presentation entitled "Analyzing All the Data All the Time."
        In this presentation, Blake will explore the current problems
        facing businesses trying to analyze terabytes and even
        petabytes of data to better understand customer needs and gain
        business advantage, and how massively parallel systems,
        purpose built for terascale database analysis, addresses
        these challenges.

When:   Tuesday, November 14 at 4:30 p.m. EST.

Where:  SC06 will be held at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa,
        Florida.

A growing number of on-line merchants, wireless phone operators, internet search companies and companies are mining credit card transactions to discover customer buying pattern insights have reached the multi-Petabyte scale of data in their operations. All of these companies are pushing the limits of relational database technology to perform "business intelligence" analysis of the hundreds of billions of records created by their business processes to better understand their customers and gain business advantage. A further challenge to this analysis is the need to perform very complex ad hoc queries, often in the span of hours in the case of fraud detection, on multi-terabyte fact files without the ability to perform the indexing and normalization of data needed to speed up relational databases used in on-line transaction processing.

This presentation will explain how Netezza has developed massively parallel systems, purpose-built for terascale database analysis that can deliver dramatically higher rates of I/O bandwidth to a single table - arguably the single most important metric in data warehouses - than large SMP or clusters of SMP systems. Netezza is developing systems with a high degree of processor and storage integration that is reminiscent of an active disk approach to bringing processing power as physically close as possible to where the database tables reside. This is a significant departure from the current orthodoxy of large scale systems built with highly virtualized network connected storage. Additional performance gains are achieved by performing many of the key algebraic set operations of the relational database, such as the projection of columns and restriction of rows, in FPGA hardware as the data records stream off the disk drives. Next, the important role of the database optimizer and planner in supporting effective parallelization of queries written in the declarative query language ANSI standard SQL will be outlined. Finally, a number of actual results, many showing a 10 to 100 times speedup over comparable systems, achieved in the customer deployment of systems will be demonstrated.

To register for SC06, please visit: http://sc06.supercomputing.org/registration/attendee.php. Any media or analysts interested in speaking with Bill Blake can contact Lisa Astor or Dawn Sullivan of Schwartz Communications at 781-684-0770 or [e-mail].

About Bill Blake

Bill Blake, senior vice president of product development at Netezza, has over two decades of industry experience in product management and development. Prior to Netezza, Blake served as vice president of High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) at Compaq, where he was responsible for the development and marketing of HPTC solutions. Blake earned both his undergraduate and graduate level degrees at the Lowell Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association of Artificial Intelligence.

About Netezza Corporation

Netezza, the global data warehouse appliance market leader, enables enterprises to make all of their data actionable - quickly, simply and affordably. The Netezza Performance Server family of products delivers breakthrough performance, unmatched ease of deployment and operation, and innovative flexibility and scalability at a fraction of the cost of traditional data warehouse solutions. By architecturally integrating database, server and storage within a single appliance, the NPS system delivers 10 to 100 times the performance at half the cost of existing systems. Based in Framingham, Mass., Netezza has offices in Washington, DC, the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific. The Company is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Matrix Partners, Charles River Ventures, Battery Ventures, Orange, Sequoia Capital and Meritech Capital Partners. For more information about Netezza, please visit www.netezza.com.