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Stopwatch
Metalic Cube with hot centre
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Netezza systems N2001 and N3001 run on RedHat 6 which is past end of support. Bug fixes and security patches are currently only available for RHEL 8 and above. So what can customers still running those systems do to protect them from new vulnerabilities? We've found a way of doing exactly that...

Mako Merge
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Businesses that are still running Netezza Mako may be running out of space, but don't want the expense of migrating to a new 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.

Data Governance
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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?

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Suddenly it seems that artificial intelligence is everywhere. This is thanks to the recent surge in the generative AI market so that you can now ask for AI assistance to do a wide variety of both routine and complex tasks in your daily work life. But can you trust the information you get from Open AI?

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In this fourth and final episode in the series of blogs accompanying our joint webinars with Yellowbrick about data warehouse modernization we concentrate on why performance matters in a data warehouse context.