Netezza pricing
In connection with the announcement of the Teradata 2500, I asked some Teradata competitors about pricing. Netezza’s response amounted to “We don’t disclose list pricing, but our cheapest system handles about 3 1/4 TB and sells for under $200K.” So Netezza’s actual pricing is well below the list price of the Teradata 2500.
April 21st, 2008 at 7:01 pm
I think you may have misread the press release…the TD 550 is 6 tb for $67k per tb.
The 2500 is 146 tb at 125k per tb.
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
146 TB is the max.
That’s 24 nodes.
Most discussion of the Teradata 2500 — including in the press release — starts from the single-node version.
And Randy Lea of Teradata told me last week the 550 tops out at 2-3 TB.
Best,
CAM
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:03 am
Curt,
It is also important to note that the 550 model is an SMP server so it is not a high-performance system like other TD models - it is more like Oracle on Sun/HP/IBM in that regard.
As far as I recall all Netezza models are MPP servers including its low-end offering.
NG
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Curt,
Netezza’s list pricing is around $100k per TB, so Teradata is a bit more expensive at $125k.
Both are significantly more expensive than DATAllegro. Our list prices range from around $8k to $50k per TB, depending on the product range.
Stuart Frost
CEO, DATAllegro
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
NG,
Agreed. The 550 product is not to be taken seriously for most purposes, even if the reporter for one major trade pub got confused by it.
But hey — as long as anybody wants it, Teradata was quite right to productize it.
CAM
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Stuart,
As per the above, a competent Netezza exec says his system sells for a lot less than the list price you’re attributing to them.
Is the same true of DATAllegro systems?
Best,
CAM