Netezza Adds EMC Clariion Arrays to NPS

Data warehousing and analytics appliance provider Netezza has announced a partnership with storage giant EMC whereby it will add EMC’s network storage arrays to its Netezza Performance Server appliances.

Netezza’s NPS data warehouse appliances optimally pre-configure database, server, storage, and open source software components for high-performance analytic data warehousing.

It will now integrate EMC’s Clariion AX4 network storage array with NPS and position it as an enterprise product with near-line storage capacity and data staging capability for loading, backup, and disaster-recovery activities.

Jim Burns, president and CEO of Netezza said: “The partnership bolsters our capability to automate enterprise data management operations for our customers and will allow us to further increase our footprint in the market through co-marketing initiatives.”

The company said the configurations will be sold and supported as integral capabilities and will be available in the second half of 2008.