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Netezza customers over the years we've developed a strong sense for the emotional stages that customers have gone through and are continuing to go through with the evolution of the Netezza platform. We thought it would be helpful to highlight some of the stages that we’ve observed in the hope that customers may gauge where they are currently at and where they might go next.
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.
Netezza customers are faced with the dilemma of sooner or later having to move to IBM Cloud Pak for Data, which is a much larger, more complex technical architecture than is necessary to run NPS only workloads. Read why we think Yellowbrick may be the ideal solution.
IBM has issued a security alert for CP4D users running OpenSSl versions 3.0.0 - 3.0.6. Read on.
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.
More Netezza bugs to report folks - this time on Monday IBM announced patches for multiple high-severity vulnerabilities impacting a number of products including Netezza and Cloud Pak for Data. Read on.