Netezza Mantra – Compliance comes to data warehouse appliances
Posted by Prat Moghe on Wed, Aug 19, 2009
Personally, the past few weeks have been exciting. Less than six months after joining the Netezza family, the Tizor Mantra team is gearing up to launch Mantra that can monitor and audit Netezza data warehouse products. Here is the official press release. In the process, we are re-branding Mantra under the Netezza umbrella. Going forward, we will be using Mantra as the name for monitoring TwinFin or earlier versions of Netezza appliances. Mantra Enterprise will be the Mantra version for monitoring any enterprise data (including transactional databases such as Oracle, SQL, Sybase, DB2, file servers, mainframe systems, or data warehouse environments).
Old fogeys like me are trying to forget the old name, Tizor. The good news is that Netezza Mantra has a nice ring to it.
Leaving names aside, why is this a significant moment? Several reasons…
My belief has always been that data compliance is an enterprise problem. While this problem first surfaced in distributed transactional systems and unstructured data, it has been steadily evolving towards data warehouse environments. The Netezza Mantra product is the first product to organically bring compliance to the audit and compliance market.
Also, Netezza has been a visionary and a leader in terms of defining the conversation of data warehousing for large enterprises. Traditionally Netezza was first to introduce appliances (“simplicity”) and demonstrate scale (“impossible queries”). With the latest release of TwinFin, Netezza has changed the game on price/performance and demonstrated how appliances can offer investment protection across all ranges of data warehouse needs. Now with Mantra, Netezza is bringing compliance (“trust”) into the data warehouse appliance conversation. That’s a pretty impressive strategic first as well.