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Netezza as a Managed Cloud Service

Key Points

  • IBM Netezza is now offered as a fully managed, cloud‑native data‑warehouse service that retains the original engine’s speed, simplicity, and agility while removing the need to manage underlying CPU, disk, and network resources.
  • Customers can provision performance and storage independently, using granular elastic scaling, auto‑pause, and “pay‑as‑you‑go” billing to avoid over‑provisioning and achieve predictable costs.
  • The service leverages Netezza’s massively parallel processing and hybrid columnar acceleration to deliver ultra‑fast query performance for complex, mixed‑workload analytics on very large data sets.
  • Built‑in support for more than 200 analytical functions and major programming languages (Python, R, Java, etc.) enables seamless operationalization of data science and machine‑learning workloads directly on the warehouse.

Full Transcript

# Netezza as a Managed Cloud Service **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w49ZtExnOsk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w49ZtExnOsk) **Duration:** 00:04:21 ## Summary - IBM Netezza is now offered as a fully managed, cloud‑native data‑warehouse service that retains the original engine’s speed, simplicity, and agility while removing the need to manage underlying CPU, disk, and network resources. - Customers can provision performance and storage independently, using granular elastic scaling, auto‑pause, and “pay‑as‑you‑go” billing to avoid over‑provisioning and achieve predictable costs. - The service leverages Netezza’s massively parallel processing and hybrid columnar acceleration to deliver ultra‑fast query performance for complex, mixed‑workload analytics on very large data sets. - Built‑in support for more than 200 analytical functions and major programming languages (Python, R, Java, etc.) enables seamless operationalization of data science and machine‑learning workloads directly on the warehouse. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w49ZtExnOsk&t=0s) **Netezza Fully Managed Cloud Service** - The speaker introduces Netezza as a fully managed, cloud‑native data warehouse that retains its high‑performance engine while offering on‑demand scaling, consumption‑based billing, and simplified resource management. ## Full Transcript
0:00welcome back folks my name is love 0:02agarwal with ibm 0:04today i'm excited to share with you 0:06netiza as a fully managed service on 0:08cloud 0:09so let me start with what netezza users 0:12already know and what has always made it 0:13the enterprise data warehouse of choice 0:16things like speed simplicity and agility 0:19the community loves these aspects about 0:21natisa and while we have doubled down on 0:24them to make them better users also 0:26wanted to see a few new things to help 0:28them modernize their data strategy and 0:30bring data warehousing into the age of 0:32cloud 0:33users asked for 0:34a fully managed price performance 0:36offering that provides them with 0:38on-demand elastic scaling and 0:40consumption-based billing on public 0:42clouds 0:43we listened to this feedback and 0:45incorporated it into netezza as a fully 0:48managed service on cloud 0:50this massively parallel processing high 0:52performance cloud data warehouse runs 0:55the next generation neteza database 0:57engine this means users can now enjoy 1:00the same hardened and performant netize 1:02engine they trust to run their critical 1:03workloads on and combine it with the 1:06benefits of a cloud native solution 1:08so let's talk about what's new 1:11simplicity as a fully managed cloud 1:13native offering netizza as a service 1:16abstracts away the complexities of 1:18optimizing the underlying resources 1:20including cpu disk and network 1:23infrastructure 1:24users really only need two units these 1:27being how fast you want to go 1:29and how much data you need 1:31everything else is fully abstracted and 1:33managed by us 1:34load and go with no tuning and no 1:36indexing existing netiza customers enjoy 1:39risk-free and frictionless upgrades with 1:42a single command 1:44granular elastic scaling 1:46we have brought incredibly granular 1:48elastic scaling capabilities to the 1:50platform 1:51this allows you to apply computational 1:53power only when you need it 1:55users select the performance 1:57characteristics that meet their workload 1:58requirements and can increase or 2:00decrease performance as workload demand 2:03ebbs and flows 2:05you also have the ability to pause and 2:07resume resources as needed as well as 2:10auto pause to scale down when the 2:12platform is idle 2:13storage density can be increased 2:15independently of performance demands as 2:17capacity needs require 2:19this is opposed to other offerings that 2:21scale exponentially 2:23with fixed t-shirt sizes leading to over 2:26provisioning of resources and 2:28unanticipated costs 2:30our unique approach gives you linear 2:32performance scaling and cost 2:34predictability in the cloud you only pay 2:37for what you need and when you need it 2:40speed 2:41netezza as a service is designed 2:43specifically for running complex 2:45analytics on very large data volumes 2:48it's unique massively parallel 2:50processing architecture combined with 2:52hybrid columnar acceleration assist 2:54delivers blistering fast query 2:56performance on highly complex mixed 2:59analytical workloads 3:01sophistication 3:03this one is all about operationalizing 3:05data science and machine learning at 3:07scale 3:08netezza brings analytics to the data 3:11its rich 200 plus built-in analytics 3:14capabilities support all major languages 3:17such as python r java and more 3:20data scientists and analyst teams can 3:23build models that operate on data 3:25predict and score directly inside the 3:27database instead of having to offload it 3:30to a separate environment and deal with 3:32the associated pre-processing and 3:33transformations 3:36for users ready to move from their 3:37netezza appliances to the manage as a 3:39service offering it could not be easier 3:42upgrade risk free to netize as a service 3:45with a single command 3:47start enjoying granular elastic scaling 3:49superior price performance and cost 3:52predictability in the cloud with a 3:54sophisticated cloud data warehouse that 3:56provides best-in-class analytics 3:58capabilities to drive your business 4:00goals 4:02talk to your ibm representative today to 4:04take netize as a service for a test 4:06drive and check out the links below to 4:08learn more about our offering 4:19you