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01 Feb 13 - IBM Data Magazine - Are your database backups safe? Lester Knutsen (IBM Champion) writes about database back up safety using "archecker"... Read
14 Nov 12 - IBM - IBM's Big Data For Smart Grid Goes Live In Texas... Read
3 Oct 12 - The Financial - IBM and TransWorks Collaborate to Help Louisiana-Pacific Corporation Achieve Supply Chain Efficiency... Read
28 Aug 12 - techCLOUD9 - Splunk kicks up a SaaS Storm... Read
10 Aug 12 - businessCLOUD9 - Is this the other half of Cloud monitoring?... Read
3 Aug 12 - IBM data management - Supercharging the data warehouse while keeping costs down IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) delivers superior performance for in-memory analytics processing... Read
2 Aug 12 - channelbiz - Oninit Group launches Pay Per Pulse cloud-based service... Read
28 May 12 - Bloor - David Norfolk on the recent Informix benchmark "pretty impressive results"... Read
23 May 12 - DBTA - Informix Genero: A Way to Modernize Informix 4GL Applications... Read
9 Apr 12 - Mastering Data Management - Upping the Informix Ante: Advanced Data Tools... Read
22 Mar 12 - developerWorks - Optimizing Informix database access... Read
14 Mar 12 - BernieSpang.com - International Informix User Group set to meet in San Diego... Read
1 Mar 12 - IBM Data Management - IIUG Heads West for 2012 - Get ready for sun and sand in San Diego... Read
1 Mar 12 - IBM Data Management - Running Informix on Solid-State Drives.Speed Up Database Access... Read
26 Feb 12 - BernieSpan.com - Better results, lower cost for a broad set of new IBM clients and partners... Read
24 Feb 12 - developerWorks - Informix Warehouse Accelerator: Continuous Acceleration during Data Refresh... Read
6 Feb 12 - PRLOG - Informix port delivers unlimited database scalability for popular SaaS application ... Read
2 Feb 12 - developerWorks - Loading data with the IBM Informix TimeSeries Plug-in for Data Studio... Read
1 Feb 12 - developerWorks - 100 Tech Tips, #47: Log-in to Fix Central... Read
13 Jan 12 - MC Press online - Informix Dynamic Server Entices New Users with Free Production Edition ... Read
11 Jan 12 - Computerworld - Ecologic Analytics and Landis+Gyr -- Suitors Decide to Tie the Knot... Read
9 Jan 12 - planetIDS.com - DNS impact on Informix / Impacto do DNS no Informix... Read
8 Sep 11 - TMCnet.com - IBM Offers Database Solution to Enable Smart Meter Data Capture... Read
1 Aug 11 - IBM Data Management Magazine - IIUG user view: Happy 10th anniversary to IBM and Informix... Read
8 Jul 11 - Database Trends and Applications - Managing Time Series Data with Informix... Read
31 May 11 - Smart Grid - The meter data management pitfall utilities are overlooking... Read
27 May 11 - IBM Data Management Magazine - IIUG user view: Big data, big time ( Series data, warehouse acceleration, and 4GLs )... Read
16 May 11 - Business Wire - HiT Software Announces DBMoto for Enterprise Integration, Adds Informix. Log-based Change Data Capture... Read
21 Mar 11 - Yahoo! Finance - IBM and Cable&Wireless Worldwide Announce UK Smart Energy Cloud... Read
14 Mar 11 - MarketWatch - Fuzzy Logix and IBM Unveil In-Database Analytics for IBM Informix...
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11 Mar 11 - InvestorPlace - It's Time to Give IBM Props: How many tech stocks are up 53% since the dot-com boom?...
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9 Mar 11 - DBTA - Database Administration and the Goal of Diminishing Downtime...
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2 Feb 11 - DBTAs - Informix 11.7 Flexible Grid Provides a Different Way of Looking at Database Servers...
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27 Jan 11 - exactsolutions - Exact to Add Informix Support to Database Replay, SQL Monitoring Solutions...
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25 Jan 11 - PR Newswire - Bank of China in the UK Works With IBM to Become a Smarter, Greener Bank...
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12 Oct 10 - Database Trends and Applications - Informix 11.7: The Beginning of the Next Decade of IBM Informix...
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20 Sep 10 - planetIDS.com - ITG analyst paper: Cost/Benefit case for IBM Informix as compared to Microsoft SQL Server...
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20 Jul 10 - IBM Announcements - IBM Informix Choice Edition V11.50 helps deploy low-cost scalable and reliable solutions for Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows...
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20 Jul 10 - IBM Announcements - Software withdrawal: Elite Support for Informix Ultimate-C Edition...
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24 May 10 - eWeek Europe - IBM Supplies Database Tech For EU Smart Grid...
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23 May 10 - SiliconIndia - IBM's smart metering system allows wise use of energy...
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21 May 10 - CNET - IBM to help people monitor energy use...
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20 May 10 - ebiz - IBM Teams With Hildebrand To Bring Smart Metering To Homes Across Britain...
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19 May 10 - The New Blog Times - Misurare il consumo energetico: DEHEMS è pronto...
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19 May 10 - ZDNet - IBM software in your home? Pact enables five-city smart meter pilot in Europe...
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17 March 10 - ZDNet (blog) David Morgenstern - TCO: New research finds Macs in the enterprise easier, cheaper to manage than...
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17 March 2010 - Virtualization Review - ...key components of Big Blue's platform to the commercial cloud such as its WebSphere suite of application ser
vers and its DB2 and Informix databases...
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10 February 2010 - The Wall Street Journal - International Business Machines is expanding an initiative to win over students and professors on its products. How do they lure the college crowd?...
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Highlights: Join the Panther Early Validation Program Welcome to the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) Insider! Designed for IIUG members and Informix user group leaders, this publication contains timely and relevant information for the IBM Informix community. Contents:
Every day I am doing something new with Informix. Taking part in the EVP program for Panther, writing questions for the new Informix Application Developer Test and supporting my development team and users. Last month IBM launched a new pricing model. I received many comments and presented them to IBM. Please take a few minutes of your time and tell me what you think about the new offering. Is it better or worse, what is missing and what should be changed? Your feedback is important to the IUG board and to IBM. The nights are getting shorter, at least in the northern hemisphere, so I have less time to write the Insider. Enjoy this light Insider especially suited for hot summer days. Gary Ben-Israel
Join the Panther Early Validation Program Don't miss the opportunity to gain early access to the next major release of Informix, codenamed Panther. Panther builds on the core strengths of Informix, allowing you to further reduce your costs, deliver more value to customers, and differentiate your solution with the most innovative technology in the database industry. The major themes of Panther focus on developing powerful and cost-saving features in: Enhanced Warehousing:
Smart Grid:
Enhanced Programmability
Ease of Embedding:
Enhanced Security Management:
As part of the program, you will be assigned a Lab Advocate, a subject-matter expert from the Informix development lab, who can help you understand how to leverage Informix technology to differentiate your solution in the marketplace. The Lab Advocate will be your single point of contact for all technical and logistical questions related to the beta program. They will be a great resource to help you design and implement your solutions around the new technology and get it done right the first time. Use this unique opportunity to build relationships within the IBM technical community and receive an extra level of care and attention from IBM. As part of the Early Validation Program, you will be expected to:
The enrollment process is very straightforward. Go to the Informix Early Validation Program website at http://www.ibm.com/informix/beta and submit a nomination form. If you have questions, contact Madhuri Ahuja, Informix EVP Program Coordinator, at ahujam@us.ibm.com. Since this will be the only beta program being conducted for Panther, I highly encourage you to enroll right away and take advantage of this exclusive opportunity.
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Informix Chat with the Lab Tuesday, June 13 Best Practices for Running Informix in VMWare vSphere Virtual Environments Speaker: Sreeni Paidi (IBM) IBM Informix is voted #1 in customer satisfaction and it is IBM's flagship database solution for embedded database systems. VMware vSphere is the most widely deployed, production-ready software suite available on commodity hardware for optimizing and managing IT environments through virtualization. In this chat with the labs session we will talk about the best practices in configuring and scaling Informix in a VMWare vSphere 4 environment. We will discuss how to leverage the benefits of server virtualization to achieve near-native database performance with minimal overhead. We will also talk about how you can gain throughput scalability by running multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. Jerry Keesee, director of Informix worldwide will introduce the call and Sreeni Paidi, Informix Enablement Consultant, Technology Ecosystems will be our technical speaker. Presentation material will be available at http://www.ibm.com/informix/labchats prior to the event. Questions, comments: ahujam@us.ibm.com To register for this event, use the following link: https://events.webdialogs.com/register.php?id=cae6c6d245&l=en-US For webinar-specific questions, contact the moderator. For technical support, contact UnyteSupport@us.ibm.com. Prepare for Upgrade to IDS 11.50Time is running out for IDS 10 products support. Effective September 30, 2010, IBM will withdraw support from the IDS 10 product releases. 25 steps you should consider while upgrading from IDS 10 to 11.50.
- Sanjit Chakraborty Using Informix for your WarehouseUnlock greater business value from your data at lower cost Achieve faster time to value for data analysis and reporting by bringing the value of Informix to your warehouse applications. All editions of Informix include a new warehouse capability that provides an integrated and simplified software platform so you can use your existing Informix infrastructure to power business intelligence solutions, using tools that simplify warehouse design and deployment. Use a single database for both transaction processing and analytics or build a separate data warehouse, depending on workload requirements. The new tools make it easy to transform the data to make smarter business decisions and do more with lower cost hardware. Customers are also realizing up to 80% disk savings with the compression functionality that is available as an add-on to the Informix Warehouse. Learn more about the Storage Optimization Feature and how lower data volumes can improve performance up to 20% and reduce energy expenses. http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/compression/ http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/warehouse/
Data Management Briefing and Luncheon in Denver IBM and Advanced DataTools Invite you to a Data Management Briefing and Luncheon in Denver.
http://www.advancedatatools.com/Events/Den2010/ADTC_IBM_Invite.html News from Advanced DataToolsInformix Survey - win an Apple iPad! IBM Informix Survey for Continuous Availability White Paper IBM Informix is the database software voted #1 in customer satisfaction. Clients choose Informix because it is reliable, low cost, and hassle free. Solution providers choose Informix for its best-of-breed embeddability. Yet, there are some people that still don't "get" Informix, or realize the many benefits of deploying it. Help us gather data to support this claim.
Advanced DataTools is working with Oninit, to gather data about what happens in the REAL world to support these assertions with empirical evidencein the REAL world. The data collected will be used to compile a report that will be made available to every CTO, IT Director and IT Manager. Along with this, they will receive a list of all the major application vendors that are now porting their applications to Informix V11.5 and a document outlining the key reasons to choose Informix. Win an Apple iPad. One randomly selected participant in the data collection phase of this research will win an Apple iPad, provided by Advanced DataTools Corporation, an Advanced IBM Informix Business Partner. Complete the Survey to win an Apple iPad! Every response matters. - Start Survey here! http://www.advancedatatools.com/Informix/Survey.html Note: Public Sector Employees are not eligible to win but may complete the survey. Advanced Informix Training by Lester Knutsen and Art Kagel September 27-30, 2010 - Annandale, VA New - Virtual Informix Training over the Internet Do you want to learn how to be the FASTEST Informix DBA? This is the course our Fastest Informix DBA contest was developed from and will increase your database performance tuning skills. This 4-day course focuses on techniques for optimizing an Informix Database. Labs will demonstrate more than 100% performance improvement. Each student will have a 4-core Linux server with IDS 11 and a large dataset for benchmark exercises and labs. Attend the class in person or online via our Web Training Center. Both Art Kagel and Lester Knutsen will be teaching the Advanced Classes together. More Information at http://www.advancedatatools.com/Training/InformixTraining.html Fastest Informix DBA Contest III Winners Advanced DataTools is pleased to announce the results of our third Fastest Informix DBA contest held at the 2010 IIUG Informix Conference, April 25-28 in Kansas City, Missouri. Thank you to everyone who participated! This time the contest was an OLTP benchmark using the BenchmarkSQL Java program to generate 100 sessions doing inserts, updates, and deletes against a database. BenchmarkSQL is an easy to use JDBC benchmark that closely resembles the TPC-C standard for OLTP. Databases supported include EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, SQLSvr, MySQL, HsqlDB, Derby/JavaDB & FireBird. See Source Forge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/benchmarksql/ for more information. The Java code was converted to run with Informix by AGS, the folks that created ServerStudio. The challenge was to get the most transactions per minute during a 10-minute benchmark run. The winners are listed at http://www.advancedatatools.com/Informix/index.html
BT Group Enters Emerging Smart Meter Market The Hildebrand solution is powered by IBM (News - Alert) Informix database software, using the Time Series capability. Ed Silverstein is a contributing... http://www.iiug.org/url/hildebrand.html
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