Netezza clients are being told that there are no spare parts to be had anywhere for their Mako systems that are going out of support on April 10th of this year. Read why this is wrong, and what you can do to ensure your Mako keeps running whilst you consider your options.

When non-Netezza specialists are made responsible for maintaining a Netezza system you shouldn't be surprised if things go wrong. Read a cautionary tale about when two Netezza operating system upgrades were attempted using the wrong software.

Netezza systems, like humans, will experience a decline in performance as they age. Also like humans, this decline can be linked to underlying health issues which, if corrected, can result in much of the performance being restored. In this blog, read about the steps you can take to ensure your legacy Netezza system runs at peak performance well beyond the IBM end of support date.

Running older versions of your Netezza software may not result in any specific issues whilst the appliance is being supported by IBM, but that ceases to be the case after the IBM End of Support (EOS) date. Find out why.

Most companies run Nagios to monitor such things as memory usage, disk usage, microprocessor load, the number of currently running processes and log files. The monitoring of databases will, however, generally be ignored.

In this article we will show how to create and deploy Nagios monitoring for Netezza system components.

Businesses that are still running Netezza Mako appliances that have not yet reached end of support by IBM may be running out of space, but don't want the expense of buying a completely new NPS/CP4D system just yet. But might they consider merging 2 systems into 1 to get double the space and performance? In this blog we explain how.

The Log4j flaw, disclosed by Apache last week, allows attackers to execute code remotely on a target computer, meaning that they can steal data, install malware or take control. How can you tell if you have a problem on your Netezza host?

You don't have to invest in a secondary Netezza system that will remain idle to achieve a full disaster recovery solution - this can be achieved using SmartSafe multi-master bi-directional replication (BDR) which enables you to have a mean time to recovery (MTTR) and recovery point objective (RPO) measured in minutes whilst load balancing your users and maximising your ROI. Read more in our blog.

In this blog we'll show you how to massively reduce the runtime of Netezza queries on very large tables by up to 60 times.

Automated machine learning is becoming a must-have Business Intelligence skill and Netezza has built-in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) which we can install and configure for companies wanting to leverage this capability.

During these uncertain times, Smart Associates provides expert advice on preparing and rolling out new technologies during a pandemic.

It’s every Netezza user’s nightmare, somebody had unintentionally dropped a business-critical production table on their Netezza system and so it needed to be restored immediately otherwise the proverbial would hit the fan. Luckily we were on hand and immediately started the process of restoring from our client’s EMC storage manager.