An introduction to TwinFin

communityadmin@netezza.com — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:28:36 GMT

What would be possible in your world if you had a database that could use all of the information relevant to your analysis: as much business history as you have; all telemetry data generated each day; every customer action and interaction? What if you did not need to have specialized expertise to use such a high powered tool? What if you could accurately predict, in advance, how long this tool would take to answer your hardest problem (even when the answer is not 42!)?

I would like to introduce you to the Netezza TwinFin analytic appliance. As an appliance the TwinFin is designed for a particular function - turning your data into useful information. This is more than just looking into the rear-view mirror to see what has happened. It is the ability to take millions and billions of events and identify patterns such as network security breaches from 30 days of cflow and DPI data; answer what-if questions like the bank that wants to figure out the impact of reducing the hold time on uncleared credit card authorizations; and predict your customers' future behavior like the mobile carrier combining subscriber experience at the network level with analysis of call center interactions, CDRs and call forwarding configuration to determine those subscribers at the highest risk to churn in the next 30 days.

The Netezza TwinFin delivers these capabilities with a focus on very high performance, providing excellent business value, in an appliance package that is simple to install, deploy and operate. Customers that have migrated their analytic application to Netezza routinely tell us that 80% or more of their DBA's time is freed up to focus on business problems instead of internal database and table management. The TwinFin does this with several incredibly powerful technologies including field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) deployed in an asymmetric massively parallel, shared-nothing architecture controlled by an advanced SQL language parser and optimizer.

Just like the fuel-injection in your car, or the aerodynamics of lift in an airplane, you don't need to know what these are or how they work to take advantage of them to get you where you need to go. The Netezza TwinFin analytic appliance delivers its functionality in a package for which you already have expertise. It is deployed on an IP network and programmed with SQL. It is already integrated with most data management and reporting tools and will integrate right into your existing environment.

So take your biggest data set, your toughest queries and get to know the TwinFin. We love nothing more than the opportunity to show you in person. Visit us at http://www.netezza.com/testdrive/ and get to know the TwinFin at your site.

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An introduction to TwinFin