Netezza Updates Engines

December 7, 2007: Analytics appliance provider Netezza claims to have doubled its device performance again, thanks to a new patent-pending addition to its Fast Engines framework.

The company is talking up is new Compress Engine, claiming it doubles the performance of its enterprise-class streaming analytic appliance thanks to new algorithm designed to increase performance while decreasing data footprint.

This performance gain comes soon after the firm’s announcement of Release 4 of its Netezza Performance Server (NPS) appliance, which itself delivered a doubling of performance through software, with no increase in price, hardware footprint or power and cooling requirements according to Netezza.

Netezza says these speed gains are made possible with its streaming architecture, which makes use of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other commodity components to place processing power next to the data. This way, data analysis occurs at the source at streaming speeds.

The company says this streaming architecture is built on the FPGA-Accelerated Streaming Technology (FAST) Engines framework, which consists of several analytic functions that are programmed and customised at run-time in the FPGA to deliver performance advantages and enhanced capabilities for the NPS system. Netezza’s Engines have already been deployed to 125 customers worldwide, with the high-performance analytics enabling them to analyse their data and make informed decisions about their business.

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