IBM 'Cheetah 2' mauls data costs
Submitted by eherber on Sun, 2008-05-04 13:10.
Under: cheetah2 | marketing | press
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
Excerpt:
While IBM's DB2 accounted for the lion's share of IBM's growth, IDS is said to play a "significant role" in IBM's overall database revenue. Acquired in 2001, IDS was upgraded to version 11.0 last June.
Comment The Informix Zone:
Below just an example calculation why DB2 might have accounted for the lion's share of IBM's growth:
| Product | revenue % |
|---|---|
| DB2 z/OS | 40 % |
| DB2 LUW | 20 % |
| IDS | 40 % |
As long as IBM doesn't publish the detailed numbers, the above calculation is only a guess. But if you take a look at the market, it is hardly to believe that DB2 LUW performs better than IDS. IDC Analyst Carl Olofson describes IDS as IBM's "growth machine" in this german pressrelease.