Netezza’s Not Dead: It’s Just Ascended

Netezza, the IBM-owned, hardware-accelerated data warehousing hybrid, is now generally out there (GA) in the cloud on both IBM Cloud or AWS.

The unanticipated pivot to offer a cloud-centered Netezza was announced very last thirty day period by IBM (which had formerly prepared to eliminate it off.) Now it’s a actuality: times in advance of on-premises aid was slated to end on June thirty.

(IBM purchased Netezza in 2010 for $1.7 billion. At the time, as we claimed, Netezza had 350 big clients which include Time Warner, Estee Lauder, United HealthGroup, Nationwide Insurance coverage, NYSE Euronext and Virgin Media.)

IBM now statements shifting workloads to the cloud will be ache-absolutely free.

“It’s not a migration—it’s a carry and shift,” suggests Big Blue’s products guide, Miran Badzak incorporating: “nzbackup your appliance to IBM Cloud Item Storage or Amazon S3—nzrestore into your cloud data warehouse. Or, basically operate nz_migrate. It is about as drama-absolutely free transfer to cloud as any one can make it.”

Drama, formerly, had abounded, with buyers and resellers still left pissed off by the announced end of aid at limited discover, then an equally unanticipated May possibly 2020 announcement that Netezza was staying given a reprieve.

IBM seemingly invigorated by the ability to virtualise workloads with the assist of Purple Hat-created tools, meanwhile suggests Netezza innovation will now “continue at breakneck speeds”. (How’s that for a U-convert?)

(Badzak highlighted all the “hard function and ingenuity that is been on display by our engineering group as they worked to provide Netezza to cloud. Having what utilised to be an particularly restricted coupling of hardware and software package and deploying it on a modular, commodity-hardware infrastructure is no effortless job.”)

Hungry startups meanwhile are snapping at the heels of some of people chunky workloads. A probable stress: what they have been promising possible buyers would be a clunky, costly and complex migration off the system now seems to be set to be fairly uncomplicated (for people nonetheless to make it…)

Firms unconvinced by latest vacillation on IBM’s section could get a very last minute closer glimpse at both Yellowbrick or SQream, which offer variants on the concept: built-in software package and hardware appliances that slot into a data centre rack that can energy big DB workloads, with comparable organization integrations to Netezza for LDAP, SNMP, syslog, but arguably a host of enhancements which include additional scalability and richer element.