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Netezza doubles down on data warehouse doublingMoore's law on steroidsPublished Wednesday 5th December 2007 19:23 GMT Data warehouse appliance maker Netezza this week issued a self-congratulatory note for doubling the performance of its gear through some software trickery. In August, Netezza issued Release 4 of its Performance Server (NPS) system, providing customers with a major performance boost for sorting through database queries. How much of a boost? Well, a doubling - and all through software. Now the plucky vendor is at it again, doubling the performance of its gear via something called the Compress Engine. As Netezza explains it in one of the more convoluted press releases we've ever run across,
Er, but don't get too excited just yet. The Compress Engine doesn't ship until May of next year. We can only imagine the marketing meeting that went on where it was decided that announcing the technology now was a good idea. Netezza goes up against big boys such as Teradata, Oracle and IBM in the data warehouse market. And, as you can see, investors have proved a tad confused over the little company's approach. ® Register editor Ashlee Vance has just pumped out a new book that's a guide to Silicon Valley. The book starts with the electronics pioneers present in the Bay Area in the early 20th century and marches up to today's heavies. Want to know where Gordon Moore eats Chinese food, how unions affected the rise of microprocessors or how Fairchild Semiconductor got its start? This is the book for you - available at Amazon US here or in the UK here. 3 comments posted — Comment period finished DB2 and Sybase IQ have had this for a long timePosted: 20:07 5th December 2007 Moore's law on steroidsPosted: 20:48 5th December 2007 It's a streaming compressionPosted: 02:48 6th December 2007
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