IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a new version of its Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) software designed to help companies better manage and utilize the deluge of data generated from global operations while increasing effectiveness and reducing data management costs by one-third.
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.
“Global businesses of all sizes and across all industries are looking to gain a competitive advantage from the ability to execute uninterrupted business transactions locally and across their global enterprise,” said Inhi Cho, vice president, IBM Data Management Marketing. “The new version of IDS delivers the speed, agility and efficiency to help our clients enhance their overall business performance and reduce costs as their companies grow.”
IDS 11.5 features numerous enhancements that further its leading reliability and transaction performance, enabling users to reduce the number and cost of servers required. By enabling customers to manage the same amount of data with fewer hardware servers, IDS 11.5 requires fewer software licenses, lowers administration costs, and delivers energy and space savings.
When multiplied across the hundreds or thousands of applications or systems distributed throughout a business, IDS 11.5 offers tremendous savings and significantly lowers the cost for massively distributed data management. The versatile IDS 11.5 also benefits smaller companies and organizations that rely upon uninterrupted information access, but don’t have large IT staffs to manage numerous databases.
