IBM has announced InfoSphere Warehouse on System z. This offering provides a highly scalable, lower cost way to design, populate and optimize a DB2 for z/OS data warehouse to support BI applications such as Cognos 8 BI for System z.
System z customers will benefit from being able to:
- Simplify operational complexity by deploying both operational and warehouse data on a single platform to reduce costs related to data movement and provide data compliance and security
- Dramatically improve query performance to saves on CPU cost and elapsed time through the use of Cubing Services caching for Multidimensional (MDX) query support
- Exploit unique System z advantages including hardware based data compression, world class workload management, and high availability through data sharing
InfoSphere Warehouse on System z is part of a comprehensive IBM Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solution for System z that now includes Cognos 8 BI for System z, DB2 for z/OS, InfoSphere Information Server and InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM).
For additional information please visit the IBM Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solution page.