By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
July 9, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — North American high voltage electric utility monitor Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator Inc (midwestiso.org) has selected Netezza Corporation (netezza.com) to handle power grid reliability, energy market performance analytics and usage statistics as an add-on to its current data center.
Announced Wednesday, Netezza expects its partnership with nonprofit organization Midwest ISO to help Midwest’s goals of improving customer understanding, increasing market transparency and streamlining operations. Midwest ISO oversees the recently deregulated 15 Midwest US states and the Canadian province of Manitoba, according to the company.
A member of the Green Grid consortium (thegreengrid.org), Netezza is expected to reduce Midwest ISO’s data center footprint and energy requirements by eliminating the need to move or expand the current data warehouse while improving performance. The current warehouse needed more space according to Netezza, explaining that it was bending under the pressure of data volumes growing by as much as 400 GB per month and dramatically shrinking data center space.
“As more and more companies look for ways they can reduce costs and save data center space, while also helping the environment, Netezza stands out as a data warehouse solution that allows organizations to meet their strategic initiatives on all fronts,” said Netezza president and COO Jim Baum. “Our unique architecture leverages energy-efficient, high-performance processors and other components that make us a great fit for organizations committed to ‘going green,’ while the performance and simplicity of our data warehouse appliance provides customers with significant competitive and operational advantage.”
As environmental sustainability increasingly becomes a deciding factor in selecting web hosts, another environmentally friendly host was awarded a contract Wednesday. IBM’s (ibm.com) new “green” data center was awarded a five-year contract with Juniper Networks (juniper.net).
