Marshfield Clinic Chooses Netezza's TwinFin Appliance for Improved Research Computation

Netezza Corporation, the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances, today announced that Marshfield Clinic, one of the largest private, multispecialty medical systems in the United States, has selected the Netezza® TwinFin™ appliance to address the research database and computation needs of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. The Marshfield Clinic system provides patient care, research and education with 45 locations in northern, central and western Wisconsin, making it one of the largest comprehensive medical systems in the United States.

"We began working with Netezza more than a year ago. Netezza was able to provide a solution that could scale with our growing data needs and remain cost-effective without sacrificing performance," said Justin Starren, MD, PhD, FACMI, Director, Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation. "The fact that the new Netezza TwinFin supports both conventional database access and also parallel scientific computation was the factor that led us to choose the new architecture."

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