Netezza Date:   Thursday , November 01, 2007 Organizations today need to do more than just collect and analyze large amounts of data. Netezza (NASDAQ: NZ), a leader in analytic appliances, enables business users across the extended enterprise to leverage the power of high-performance analytics on all their data, simply and affordably, for competitive and operational advantage. Founded in 2000 by Jit Saxena, Netezza went public in July 2007 and closed its IPO at $124.2 million. It also won the ‘Business hardware supplier of the Year’ award at the Computing Awards for Excellence in 2006. Amazon.com, the United States Army, Virgin Media, and CNET Networks are some of its customers.