I'm back off my holidays and feeling very refreshed and raring to go.  I'd like to say thanks to Phil for covering for me and will be following on from his theme in a later blog.  (For those following; I know I have made a promise such as this before in a blog about warehouse delivery times and haven't yet, but please hang on in there.  It is on my guilt list and due soon!).

Anyway on to the business at hand,  I had the pleasure of attending the Enzee Universe in London last week.  It was a fabulous affair and the new twin fin appliance was unveiled.  With twin fin Netezza have again raised the bar from the price/performance perspective.

Although I have only had a brief overview of the new architecture the key difference is the move to commodity hardware in the form of Intel based blades, making the technology much more approachable.  The FPGA technology is still present thus retaining Netezza's "secret ingredient" and one of the key components that deliver the outstanding performance.

Netezza have also been busy building a set of "on the box" match ups with other vendors and one I am particularly enamoured of is the new KONA platform.  KONA is a marriage of Kalido and Netezza and for anyone considering a new warehouse or re-architecting a legacy platform this is very much worth a look.  Kalido's ease of set up and long term maintenance and Netezza's performance is a potent mix indeed.   It is in effect a whole data warehouse in a single box which is very attractive prospect from a management perspective.  At the moment this offering is geared towards specific verticals, however I would anticipate it being opened out in time.

So all in all a great day and once again Netezza are continuing to demonstrate the forward thinking that has made them the market leader in appliance technologies.