Draft Version: IBM Redbook - IDS 11.5: Extending Availability and Replication

• IDS 11.5: Extending Availability and Replication

The new draft is based on the already published Redbook IDS 11: Extending Availability and Replication which covered IDS 11. The following chapters contain updated and additional information regarding IDS 11.5:

• Chapter 7 - Updatable Secondary servers

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Kostenloser Workshop zu IDS 11.5 (Cheetah 2)

Das sagenhafte Comeback der Kultdatenbank geht mit IDS 11.5 in die nächste Runde. Hierzu bietet die IBM Deutschland einen weiteren, kostenlosen Workshop an, der einen Überblick zu den neuen Informix Funktionalitäten bietet:

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Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe (05/2008) des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe Mai 2008:

• Aktuelles
• Presseartikel zu Cheetah2 am 28.04.2008
• TechTipp: Laden von Daten - onpladm (Teil 2)
• TechTipp: Violation Tables
• TechTipp: IDS11 - Erstellen von Tasks
• Aufruf: Senden Sie uns Ihre TASKS
• IBM SWG IM Services - Ihr direkter Draht zur Produktentwicklung

The Informix Blogsphere expands further

A new Informix blog is born:

Jacques Roy: Informix and Computing

Jacques Roy is an acknowledged Informix Expert for many many years. He wrote several books, articles and whitepapers about IDS. I had the pleasure to attend his presentation - Using the IBM Common API for IDS Web Applications - at IIUG 2008. He is a great presenter and I'm looking forward to his upcoming blog entries. Good to see that the Informix Blogosphere is further expanding.

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Informix - IBM's Wachstumsmaschine

Auszug:
"IDS ist zu einer Wachstumsmaschine für IBM geworden", bestätigt Carl Olofson, Analyst bei dem Marktforschungshaus IDC. Mit der Übernahme von Informix hat sich IBM vor ein paar Jahren ein weiteres relationales Datenbanksystem ins Portfolio geholt. Das Produkt passt offenbar besser als von manchen erwartet.

Hier geht es zur Pressemitteilung...

IT Week: IBM 'Cheetah 2' mauls data costs

Excerpt:
The upgraded IDS, version 11.5 can deliver low-cost continuous data availability across clustered data centers. It can be configured to give high availability using commodity hardware set up as a cluster, and automatic workload balancing to optimise network connections to additional servers wherever they are located.

Read the complete press release here...

Intelligent Enterprise: IBM Informix Upgrade Enhances Clustering, Database Management

IBM Uncages Cheetah 2 Data Server

Excerpt:
"When the Informix team started on the continuous availability feature they already had a lot of experience with high availability and replication techniques," said Bernie Spang, director of data severs for IBM. "Likewise, the DB2/Z team had a long history of developing shared disk solutions. These two teams came together to think about how to get the best of both worlds. The result is the continuous availability feature … is now fully available in release 11.50."

IBM Helps Clients Reduce Data Management Costs With New IDS

Excerpt:
"The new IDS 11.5, code-named "Cheetah 2," is tuned to enable customers to enhance business performance on cluster server environments using information management techniques inspired by IBM's mainframe systems. As a result, IDS is the first non-mainframe data server to provide clustered data centers with low-cost continuous data availability and disaster recovery -- regardless of geographic location or distance between backup data center sites."

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Cheetah 2 rückt Oracle auf den Pelz

IBM hat die neue Version von Informix - IDS 11.5 - offiziell angekündigt. Weitere Details in den untenstehenden Pressemitteilungen. Mehr Informationen zu IDS 11.5 wird es demnächst - nach meiner Rückkehr von der z.Zt. stattfindenden internationalen Informix User Konferenz in Kansas City - auf der Informix Zone geben.

• IBM: Mit dem neuen IBM IDS senken Kunden Datenverwaltungskosten