Netezza today announced that Shire, a global specialty biopharmaceutical company, has chosen the Netezza Performance Server (NPS) appliance for its global enterprise data warehouse platform.

Shire has seen rapid growth over the last several years and in turn experienced soaring data volumes, so it needed a data warehouse and analytic solution that could handle these volumes cost-effectively. The company chose Netezza for its scalable, yet simple, approach to data warehousing and its ability to show tremendous performance.

“As data volumes continue to multiply exponentially – and the pharmaceutical industry is no exception – it’s essential for businesses to choose data warehouse technologies that will grow with them,” said Jim Baum, president and COO at Netezza. “Companies that value simplicity, scalability and high performance for their analytics continue to turn to Netezza’s data warehouse appliances as the best option to position them for future growth and success.”

The Netezza Performance Server family of data warehouse and analytic appliances is designed specifically for high-performance, terascale analytics, and architecturally integrates a relational database, server and storage into a single compact and power-efficient unit. The system’s advantage comes from its patented streaming architecture. Netezza has placed processing power next to the data, so analysis occurs at the source at streaming speeds, delivering an unprecedented 10-100 times the performance of traditional systems at a fraction of the cost. Analyses that took days now take just seconds. This means a dramatic increase in productivity across the enterprise and faster time to value for business initiatives. Netezza appliances are changing the way organizations leverage information, creating a powerful analytic foundation for a new generation of business analytics that improve strategic decision-making and drive results.