Informix for Cloud Computing

Many IT service providers face common infrastructure challenges of scalability, flexibility, interoperability and quick access. Capital investments, disaster recovery, and managing complex environments incur considerable cost. Even scheduled downtime for application upgrades can negatively impact multiple departments and users. Hence todays’ businesses are embracing the virtualization and automation of cloud computing to decrease costs and increase the deliverables of their IT departments.

The time-tested characteristics of Informix – high performance, reliability, ease of use, and low cost of ownership, combined with the latest features such as Informix Flexible Grid, make it an excellent fit for cloud computing.  Informix provides the ability to:

• Leverage existing investments and avoid vendor lock-in since Informix can be deployed and provisioned on heterogeneous hardware and operating systems
• Minimize capital investments thanks to Informix optimal use of commodity hardware, enabling superior performance with fewer servers, less space, less power, and less cooling
• Easily manage the entire environment from a single console using a comprehensive set of administration commands. Dynamically scale capacity when and where needed, including the ability to add and drop servers, perform DDL operations on all servers, and even target a subset of servers for some operations as needed.
• Automatically sense and respond to changes without human intervention
  • Self Maintaining means you avoid over provisioning or idle resources
  • Automated storage and memory management
  • Self Configuring and Self Healing mean maximizing DBA resources
  • Automated install and mass deployment of server instances
• Provide around-the-clock services with virtually NO downtime, even for routine maintenance and upgrades
  • No temporary hardware required
  • No database or application cloning required
• Manage workload utilization cost effectively for both OLTP and Decision Support applications