Netezza has an EMC deal too
Netezza has an EMC deal too. As befits a hardware vendor, Netezza has an actual OEM relationship with EMC, in which it is offering CLARiiONs built straight into NPS appliances. 5 TB of CLARiiON will be free in any Netezza system from 2 racks on upward. (A rack holds about 12.5 TB.) In addition, you’ll be able to buy 10 TB more of CLARiiON in every Netezza rack, if you want. The whole thing is supposed to ship before year-end.
Unlike DATAllegro, which manages all of your data on EMC boxes, or ParAccel, which wants to manage some of it on EMC, Netezza will continue to manage data solely on direct-attached disk, using CLARiiONS just as staging areas. The cutesy name for this is “Storage pad”, unless I misheard and it’s really “Storage pod”; the cutesy catchphrase is “TIVO for data management.” Highlights of what is to be staged include:
- Backups. And EMC backup software will be exploited.
- Replication. Netezza customers are increasingly requesting stronger capabilities in high availability and disaster recovery.
- Data loading.
Note: As per my new policy regarding embargoes, I scheduled this to appear Tuesday morning, May 20, at 8:45 am. It didn’t work, and I’m posting it manually some hours later. Back to the drawing board …
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And yet the footnote says it was “posted on Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 at 8:45 am” …
Yep.
It was listed in the admin tools as having been posted that time — except the post’s status was Unpublished.
The next time(s) I post, I’ll try to schedule for 2 or 5 minutes in the future, and see what happens. Maybe troubleshooting will be easy.
CAM