IBM’s cloud-native enterprise data warehouse is designed to operationalize business analytics and AI workloads, by making data unified, accessible and scalable anywhere. With new support for open formats such as Parquet and Apache Iceberg, and integration with IBM’s watsonx.data lakehouse, Netezza empowers data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to run complex workloads without additional ETL or data movement. Netezza uses AI-infused elastic scaling to enable workload efficiency and cost predictability in the cloud, at a massive enterprise scale. Existing Netezza appliance customers can enjoy risk-free, frictionless upgrades, making it easy to modernize at your own pace.
IBM Netezza Performance Server is available as a fully managed service on AWS and Azure , now HIPAA-ready, as well as available self-managed on IBM Cloud® and IBM Cloud Pak® for Data Systems (PDF).
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How IBM Netezza Performance Server is used
Netezza’s cloud elastic computing also enables granular elastic pricing—you can scale up and down while only paying for what you use, no t-shirt sizes. Our AI workload analysis model output can be used to predict and schedule scaling based upon workload needs
Achieve faster insight and faster time to value with superior price-performance with patented massively parallel processing.
Ensure data visibility, auditability, data masking, access controls and more in a single platform.
Deploy high speed and scalable machine learning processing for Python and SQL without moving your data.
Query data from your data lake in minutes with Netezza’s SQL on Parquet capabilities.
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Deploy quickly on a preconfigured system with storage, compute, networking and software.
Optimize performance with a flexible, self-service deployment, featuring a predictable cost profile on Microsoft Azure and AWS. Now HIPAA-ready.
Experience the next generation of Netezza on IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
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What clients are saying
Sirius
“Netezza on Cloud gave us the legendary speed without new space in the data center. We moved ELT and SQL with zero breakage – but 10x faster. No surprise costs with Netezza. Just one invoice and you’re done.”
— David Birmingham, Principal Solutions Architect, Sirius
Findability Sciences
“The migration was simple, frictionless, and it took us just 7 weeks to get [our client] up and running, enabling them to accelerate time to insights and decision making.”
— K. Balaji, Executive Vice President and Head Lab Services, Findability Sciences Inc.
iBasis
“With Netezza Performance Server, we can monitor call data reports that aggregate an enormous amount of data in order to spot quality issues and margin leak in real time. These reports, which previously took several hours to run, can now be executed in mere seconds.”
— Mano Haran, Senior Director of IT, iBasis
Market research
“With just one simple command, nz_migrate, we moved our tables, data and stored procedures from our existing Netezza into the new Netezza Performance Server, and we did this all by ourselves.”
— A leading global market research company
Healthcare
“Our longest queries returned in a fraction of their original time, and saw no concurrency drag running hundreds at once.”
— Healthcare client
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Netezza Performance Server as a Service is now available on Azure Marketplace. Control spending with a fully managed pay-as-you-go cloud data warehouse service.
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Simple high-speed analytics and insights that are accessible for everyone, everywhere, are now available to preview on AWS.
IBM is proud to announce the tech preview availability of IBM Netezza Performance Server as a fully managed service on AWS.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, IBM® Netezza® Performance Server for the cloud is 100% compatible with existing Twinfin, Striper and Mako workloads. It’s the same database engine that’s retooled and reconfigured for the cloud and includes all the same utilities that are now available as REST API calls in the cloud.
For on premises, in the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data System hyperconverged architecture, Netezza Performance Server clients connect to the Netezza Performance Server host, which runs as a Docker container named ipshost1 on the system Control Plane node. The host is configured with a specific host name and IP address when the system is installed and provisioned in the customer network.
For Netezza on cloud, backups and restores are saved in the object store, either IBM Cloud® Object Storage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 or Azure Blob Storage.
Learn more in the IBM Knowledge Center:
Yes. Netezza Performance Server as a Service is a fully managed, cloud native analytical data warehouse, based on massively parallel processing [MPP] architecture, available on public clouds.
IBM Performance Server for PostgreSQL has been modernized and renamed to IBM Netezza Performance Server for IBM Cloud Pak for Data.
A June 2020 total value of ownership study from Cabot Partners shows that Netezza Performance Server outpaces competitors in key areas.
Netezza Performance Server drives the ability for your data scientist to quickly create, train and deploy in-database machine learning models. Using cognitive machine learning, Netezza provides your data scientist with in-database analytics, enabling them to collaborate inside one unified platform. Embedded Spark and support for Python and R enable rapid and sophisticated adoption of data science and machine learning at scale.
To migrate data from IBM PureData® System for Analytics to Netezza on cloud, you can use the backup and restore method, or the “nz_migrate” command. NOTE: To migrate or connect to Netezza on cloud from Mako, make sure you are on version 7.2.1.9 P1 or lower.
Most clients find it easy to migrate themselves due to the 100% compatibility. All it takes is the “nz_migrate” command. However, IBM Expert Labs can help if needed. Each purchase of Netezza Performance Server includes two support offerings: (1) Setup and configuration of Netezza Performance Server for your workloads, including an Operational Workshop, and (2) Three months of Expertise Connect Advanced to provide guidance on moving workloads to IBM Cloud Pak for Data System.
The IBM Knowledge Center provides general information about back up and restore methods, and also describes how to use the third-party storage solutions that are supported by the Netezza system.
Currently, there are IBM Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure data centers supporting Netezza Performance Server in multiple locations within North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Additional IBM Cloud data centers are consistently being added. To learn more, talk to your IBM representative or schedule a free consultation.
Built-in automation and auto-recovery, available on IBM Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure, provide a highly available and fault-tolerant Netezza deployment with minimal intervention, helping ensure your data warehouse can run 24x7.
Netezza Performance Server is available on IBM Cloud, AWS and Azure.