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Classic Car - Fast and Powerful
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First instinct when a vendor announces end of life support for a platform is to look at the latest technology offering with a natural assumption being that it will be faster, simpler and cheaper. The reality, however, is that often the current system is performing satisfactorily across all measures and moving off it will result in a lot of pain. What can you do?

Nagios and Netezza
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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.

IBM Cloud Highway
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There’s a sense of déjà vu with the recent announcement of the release of Cloud Pak for Data System (CP4DS) 1.0.7.8 (a.k.a Hammerhead). It has all the signs of a capitulation on the part of IBM to customers who want to continue with the idea of Netezza being a stand-alone appliance, and not have to share CPU resources with other components in a hyperconverged architecture.

Netezza Support
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The Netezza Mako N3001-## range reaches end of OEM support in 12 months. Here's a roundup of the products and services we offer to not only extend the life of your Mako but also to drastically reduce the overhead of managing the next generation of Netezza, whether on-premises, or in the Cloud.