IBM Netezza

Real-time data streaming at enterprise scale: built on Kafka, engineered for production.

IBM Netezza has powered enterprise data warehousing and analytics for years. Purpose-built for speed and scale at a time when those things required dedicated on-premises hardware. Netezza SaaS delivers the same high-performance analytics engine in the cloud: fully managed, elastically scalable, and deployable within your own cloud environment for organisations where data control cannot be compromised.

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The same analytics power, without the appliance

On-premises Netezza appliances carry infrastructure costs and maintenance overhead that grow over time and a scalability ceiling that makes it increasingly difficult to support the analytical and AI workloads modern business demands. Netezza SaaS removes that burden while preserving what matters: the same performance engine, the same SQL workloads, and near-100% compatibility with existing Netezza environments.

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Query performance that grows with your data

Netezza SaaS is built for speed at scale – high-performance query processing across petabytes of data, with an AI-powered query optimiser that accelerates results without manual tuning. Compute and storage scale independently on demand, so performance stays consistent as data volumes and workload complexity grow.

Deploy Netezza on your terms

Netezza SaaS runs fully managed on IBM Cloud, with a Bring Your Own Cloud model available on both AWS and Azure – deploying within your own cloud environment so data stays under your governance and compliance controls. For organisations needing maximum flexibility, Netezza Software-Only runs on your own hardware, in any cloud, or across hybrid environments.

Open and AI-ready

Netezza SaaS supports open table and data formats including Apache Iceberg and Parquet, with native cloud object storage integration and lakehouse connectivity via IBM watsonx.data. Analytics and AI workloads run against the same data without duplication or additional movement, making Netezza a practical foundation for organisations building towards AI-ready architecture.

Confluent in action

For organisations running Netezza on-premises, modernisation to Netezza SaaS is the most straightforward path — preserving existing workloads while removing infrastructure overhead. Dot Group plans and delivers these migrations across financial services, retail, and manufacturing, sequencing the programme to maintain business continuity throughout.

Where Netezza sits alongside broader modernisation work – database consolidation, pipeline modernisation, or a move to a unified analytics platform – we join that up rather than treating it in isolation.

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