• Date: Thursday, August the 26th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 10:30 AM Pacific, 0:30 PM Central, 1:30 PM Eastern, 6:30 PM London, 7:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Informix Post End of Service Support Options and Upgrade Best practices
• Speaker: Al Martin(Director; WW Data Management Support); Charles Gonsalves
  (Sr. Manager; WW Informix Support, IBM,), Ron Privett (Sr.Engineer,
  Americas Down Systems and Diagnostics Team.), Chris Fender (Program

• Date: Tuesday, July the 13th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 10:30 AM Pacific, 0:30 PM Central, 1:30 PM Eastern, 6:30 PM London, 7:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Best Practices for Running Informix in VMWare vSphere Virtual Environments
• Speaker: Sreeni Paidi (IBM)

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IBM Informix is voted #1 in customer satisfaction and it is IBM's 

Date:
June 23, 2010, 12:00 PM EST, 9:00 AM PST

Speakers:
Larry Hargrove, Global Sales and Solutions Executive for Service Provider Software, IBM
Sally Hartnell, Worldwide Marketing Manager for Informix and solidDB, IBM

Registration:
Meeting Communications Industry Imperatives with the Right Data Management Framework

Content:

Because of intense competition and demands from consumers, Communications Service 

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Die virtuelle IBM-Konferenz bietet einen Überblick zum IBM Data Management Portfolio. Dabei liegt ein besonderer Fokus auf den beiden IBM Datenbanken DB2 und Informix. Unter anderem berichtet die Firma Network IP - ein führender Anbieter from Telekommunikations-Diensten in den USA - über ihre durchweg positiven Erfahrungen mit der IBM Informix Datenbank, die das Herzstück ihrer IT bildet.

• Date: Wednesday, June the 16th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Best Practices for using Auto-update stats
• Speaker: John Miller (IBM, STSM and Informix support Architect)

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Don't miss this opportunity to get better understanding so can effectively 

• Date: Wednesday, May the 19th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Best Practices of Spatial & Geodetic solutions
• Speaker: Mark Ashworth (IBM, Extensibility Architect)

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The Spatial and Geodetic extension to IDS, enable the user to store 

• Date: Wednesday, Apr the 21th
• Time: 1 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Benefits of IBM Timeseries
• Speaker: Kevin Brown (IBM, Informix Lead Architect)

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Ramp up the speed for your time-dimensional data OR How do you manage 
'Time' in your data Is time an aspect of your data? 

• Date: Tuesday, Mar the 23th
• Time: 1 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: What's new in IDS 11.50xC6 ?
• Speaker: Cosmo David (IBM)

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IBM IDS 11.50 release has been enhanced with new functionality to timely 
meet several customer needs. These features cover a range of areas, 

Webcast: Top 10 reasons to consider IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ for IDS servers

• Date: Wednesday, Feb the 24th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Top 10 reasons to consider IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ for IDS servers
• Speaker: Satheesh Bandaram (IBM)

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For those interested in building Data Warehouses with Informix as database platform, the following series of webcasts hosted by IBM Informix Business Partner Advanced DataTools might be interesting:

• Data Warehouse Webcast Topics

Reminder: HDR Webcast

• Date: Wednesday, Jan the 20th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: HDR Best Practices and Performance Tuning
• Speaker: Ronald Privett (IBM)

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• Date: Wednesday, Dec the 16th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: IDS Security Best Practices
• Speaker: Jonathan Leffler (IBM)

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Join IBM architect Jonathan Leffler at the upcoming Informix Chat with the Labs 

• Date: Thursday, Nov the 18th
• Time: 1.5 hour, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris
• Title: MACH11 best practices around HDR/RSS
• Speaker: Madhuri, Madison Pruet (IBM)

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Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab will introduce the call 
and Madison Pruet, Informix STSM will be our technical speaker.

There will be a an incarnation of the IBM Virtual Data Conference. This time it is more targeted towards audiences in EMEA and India:

• Title: IBM Data in Action - Virtual Conference
• Date: Thursday, October 22th at 9am-1pm BST / 10am-2pm CEST / 12-4pm MSD / 1:30-5:30pm IST
• Registration URL: Register here

• Date: Thursday, Oct the 15th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Advanced Text Searching Topics in IDS
• Speaker: Mark Ashworth

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This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be deep dive into how to setup and 

• Date: Wednesday, September the 16th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Berlin/Paris
• Title: Update Anywhere Clusters - IDS 11.5's Hottest Feature
• Speaker: Martin Lurie, Informix Technical Specialist

You can register for the webcast here...

In September there will be an interesting webcast taking place with Informix veteran Lester Knutsen.

The subject of this webcast is Datawarehousing with IDS. Lester is for sure an excellent presenter for this topic as his company Advanced Data Tools has many years of experience regarding Informix and especially in the design of Data Warehouse systems:

• Date: Thursday, September the 17th

IBM presents the second semi-annual Data in Action Virtual Conference. This is an online event directed to IT Executives and Managers.

I've been told by IBM that Informix will be part of this event. Otherwise I would probably not advertise it on The Informix Zone :-) So this is hopefully a good chance to get the latest news and hear what analysts have to say about Informix. However I wouldn't expect too much from this as "analysts" tend to say what the sponsors in the background want them to say :-) Anyway let's give it a try. Here are the details for the event:

• Date: Wednesday, August the 12th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Cognos and Informix
• Speaker: Joseph Pusztai

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This month's chat will be on Cognos Express, an exciting new 

This is a live webcast hosted by Amazon. It is not Informix specific but discusses the the use of various IBM products (including IDS) on the Amazon EC2 platform:

• Date: Thursday, May the 7th
• Time: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 5:00 PM London, 6:00 PM Paris, 6:00 PM Berlin
• Title: Introduction to Amazon EC2 Running IBM

Excerpt:

Amazon Web Services and IBM have recently joined forces to