New Architecture and Speed with a Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance
Dana Rafiee, Destiny Corp · 2008
One of the biggest challenges organizations have is how they store and retrieve for analysis large amounts of data. This problem has plagued industries for years. As data sizes grow into Terabytes and Petabytes, organizations continue to face these challenges as users want to analyze and report on 'the whole data'. SAS has partnered with Netezza, a Data Warehouse Appliance vendor. This vendor is a pioneer of the self-contained warehouse appliance, which contains a database, storage and SQL processing. Each appliance contains 108 computers and storage disks to offer intelligent, massive parallel processing with load rates of 500GB per hour, all at an economical price in comparison to Teradata. The largest worldwide data customers such as Google, Yahoo, AOL and the NYSE had no other choices but to look to new, innovative technology to allow them to not only store enormous amounts of data, but to also reduce their query times from 24 hours down to 4 minutes. They outgrew the traditional Oracle, DB2 types of environments. SAS R&D has also jumped on board to work with this vendor to perform traditional SAS processing such as scoring 'IN' the database, hence gaining incredible speed for SAS customers.