Informix Chat with the Lab series

This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be related to Smarter Planet initiative, helping save energy and cost via Compression & Storage Optimization support in IDS.

This talk will provide an introduction to Informix Dynamic Server's new Compression and Storage Optimization features. We will cover compression basic concepts and affects on the data, compression ratios and compressibility, performance, scaling, and interactions with other features such as HDR and ER. The talk will also include details of the new operations and behaviors introduced by these two closely related features.

Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab will introduce the call and Kevin Cherkauer, Informix Sr Technical Lead will be our technical speaker.

Please join us.
Wednesday, July 15, 8:30 AM Pacific, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris

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Informix Dynamic Server is widely deployed in virtualized environments and has a profile and feature set that lends itself to virtualization. In this presentation you will learn about IBM's virtualization and cloud computing strategy for Informix, including virtualization platform support, current IBM solutions such as the Informix virtual appliance and Amazon Machine Images available for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and the Informix roadmap for virtualization and cloud computing.

Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab introduced the call and Guy Bowerman, Informix Embeddability Architect is our technical speaker.

Questions, comments or to be removed from this distribution: ahujam@us.ibm.com

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Originally presented April 29, 2009

This Informix Chat with the Lab was recorded live from the IIUG Conference. If you didn't make it to the conference, here is your chance to get the latest news. Jerry Keesee provides highlights of IIUG announcements and activities.
Program Director of Informix Competitive Technologies, Fred Ho presents the recently announced Informix Warehouse offering. He discusses the motivations behind the offering as well as the future roadmap. The presentation also includes a description of the Warehouse feature set and with Storage Optimization in the IDS 11.50xC4 release.

Questions, comments: crarmstr@us.ibm.com

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Originally presented March 26, 2009

This presentation is an introductory technical session that will cover the capabilities of solidDB Universal Cache 6.3, the architecture of the typical solutions involving this technology integrated with IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11.50 and the overall steps to configure solidDB Universal Cache as an in-memory front end cache for IDS databases.

With the acquisition of Solid by IBM in 2007, the IBM Information Management portfolio now incorporates in-memory relational database technology that delivers extreme and predictable speed to data access, allowing applications to achieve tens of thousands of transactions per second with consistent response times measured in microseconds. The IBM solidDB product family offers two products: solidDB, the relational in-memory database; and solidDB Universal Cache, the industry's first in-memory universal caching software for IBM data servers Informix and DB2, and for Oracle databases. solidDB Universal Cache integrates the solidDB in-memory database with a powerful synchronization technology for flexible options of in-memory front end cache for in-disk databases, allowing you to achieve extreme speed for data residing on IDS, DB2 or Oracle.

Questions, comments: crarmstr@us.ibm.com

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Originally presented January 29, 2009

The Informix Chat with the Lab series starts off the brand new year with a view to the future. Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab, will provide a recap of recent Informix activities and deliver the roadmap for 2009 and beyond. Bring your questions to ask the Informix leadership team about new technology and product directions. Provide your input on current capabilities and what you need for the future. Find out how you can participate in early technology previews and 2009 events.

Questions, comments: lspina@us.ibm.com

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Originally presented December 11, 2008

As upgrades are a necessary ongoing process, choosing the time to upgrade is critical to business continuity and technology availability. This Chat is designed to provide answers to: Why to upgrade? How to upgrade? Best practices for a smooth and easy upgrade. What resources and references are available to guide you through the process? Start your upgrading plans to IDS 11.50 today. Our speakers for this session will be Jerry Keesee, Informix Lab Director and Deen Murad, IDS Advanced Technical Support.

Questions, comments: lspina@us.ibm

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Originally presented November 6, 2008

In 2008, IBM introduced in-memory database technology known as solidDB. This presentation will cover the key capabilities of IBM solidDB - micro-second response time, high transaction throughput, and instant failover – and how those capabilities address the real-time requirements for data access in key Informix markets including telecommunciations, financial services, healthcare, retail, and communications. The presentation will also provide details about how solidDB in-memory cache complements IDS to accelerate response times and increase transaction throughput, achieving extreme speed for data residing in IDS. Use cases will be explored. There will also be good opportunities for technical Q&A. Our speakers will be Jerry Keesee, Informix Lab Director and Ari Valtanen, Director of solidDB Technology (CTO). Ari comes to IBM from the acquisition of Solid Information Technology, where he was Co-Founder, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. As a member of the founding team at Solid, Valtanen spent 7 years as an Architect in core product development in Helsinki, Finland.

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Originally presented October 14th, 2008

Using the IBM Mashup Center, you can easily deliver web 2.0 solutions using your Informix data as a source. The Infosphere Mashup Hub includes virtual tools for creating, storing, transforming, and remixing data feeds to be utilized in mashup and situational applications. This session will provide an overview of the capability in chart format and then point you to websites where you can view demos. Our speakers for this call will be Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Chris Gruber, Product Manager, Infosphere Mashup Hub.

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Originally presented September 8th, 2008

The Continuous Availability Feature of IDS 11.5 offers easy and seamless deployment of applications on cluster solutions, providing a rich set of options for high availability (HA) with seamless scalability and lower hardware costs. Cluster nodes can be added dynamically, on demand, as workload increases on the cluster with client connections routed dynamically to any node in a cluster. Configuring, managing and adding cluster nodes are simplified with enhancements to the Open Admin Tool (OAT) that was discussed in the August Chat. Our speakers will be Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab and Madison Pruet, Senior Technical Staff Member and Informix Replication Architect.

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Originally presented August 20, 2008

Join one of our most popular speakers, John Miller, as he explores the capabilities and architecture of OAT, the OpenAdmin Tool. This will be an overview of the capabilities of OAT, highlighting such things as SQL Explorer, Performance History Graphs, Auto Update Statistics, and Space Management along with many other capabilities. Highlights of the architecture and what open source components are utilized within OAT conclude this talk. Jerry Keesee, Director of the Informix Lab will introduce the call and John Miller, Senior Technical Staff Member, will be our technical speaker.

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