For the past 7 years or more IBM have been selling and installing their Highly successful Netezza Mako Data Warehouse platform, the latest version of their extremely successful Netezza Data Warehouse appliance family that for the last 20 years has been providing IBM customers across all industry sectors, with near linear scalable blistering performance, high available and advanced analytics capability. Once installed the Netezza appliance becomes the centre of DATA analytics and critical to organisations reporting and analytics needs.
Many of components of the Netezza Mako’s have been out of production for a number of years and so it got to the point where IBM no longer has enough spare parts in stock to continue supporting the Mako. IBM had to withdraw the product from the market and remove support from April 2023.
To replace the older product IBM has built a next generation Netezza appliance with all new components built on non-proprietary technology avoiding the problem of part availability in the future. The new boxes are 4 x times faster on a like for like model, extensible and built on a modem architectur
A leading Property & Casualty Insurer & Re-insurer a long-time user of the Netezza Appliance who acquired TWO Netezza’s in 2018 are well known for solving the most complex risks for mid-sized companies to the world’s largest multinationals, plus they offer traditional and innovative insurance solutions and services in over 200 countries and territories.
Due to the withdrawal of their Netezza Mako appliance from support in April 2023, this leading Property & Casualty Insurer & Re-insurer decided to purchase two of the latest generation Netezza Hammerhead appliances to replace their existing Makos. Due to our many years of experience SmallNet were chosen by the client to migrate the old databases to the new appliances.
The Netezza platform is an extremely critical element to their regulatory reporting, the Netezza appliance processes Frame source data which is critical for Financial close, Actuarial and Group Reporting. The Netezza data processing also supports downstream systems like IDA Reporting, AXIOM, R Platform, Scoring and MI Claims. Under there deployment there were 2 platforms one for PROD and the other NON-PROD both virtually equal in size and data held.
The TIMELINES are critical here in that they placed and order in DEC 2022 and managed with the assistance of IBM and its partner to go LIVE by MID April 2023. The machines only got delivered physically and then installed by Mid-FEBRUARY 2023.
