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The Netezza TwinFin™ system is the fourth generation Netezza appliance that once again sets the standard for price/performance for data warehousing and business intelligence (BI). TwinFin is a purpose-built, standards-based data appliance that architecturally integrates database, server and storage into a single, easy to manage system. TwinFin is designed for rapid analysis of data volumes scaling into the petabytes, delivering 10-100x performance improvements at a third of the cost of other options available from traditional database vendors.

TwinFin delivers high performance out of the box, with no indexing or tuning required. It is delivered ready-to-go for immediate data loading and query execution and integrates with all leading ETL, BI and analytic applications through standard ODBC, JDBC and OLE DB interfaces. TwinFin is easily rolled into your data center, plugged in and ready to load data in a matter of hours.

Experience it for yourself. Test drive TwinFin against your own data and queries to see what it can do for your business. Click here to find out more www.netezza.com/testdrive.

Key Product Highlights:
Industry-leading price-performance – 10-100x the performance at 1/3 the cost of competitive offerings
A platform for advanced analytics – Orders of magnitude faster performance
Scalability – From under 1 terabyte to petabytes
Support for thousands of users and very complex, mixed workloads
Commodity blade-based architecture
Industry-standard, multi-core Intel-based blades, implemented in combination with commodity disk storage and Netezza’s patented data filtering using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
Appliance simplicity – No indexing or tuning; minimal ongoing administration
Industry-standard interfaces (SQL, ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB)
Full compatibility with market-leading BI tools, applications and infrastructure
Enterprise-class reliability and availability – More than 99.99% uptime
Green – Low power and cooling requirements in a compact footprint
Fast load speeds – Up to 2 TB/hour
Fast backup rates – High-speed backup and restore at data rates as high as 4 TB/hour