Upgrading to Informix 11.7

The latest release of IBM® Informix® is an exceptional relational database that offers outstanding flexibility and reliability so you can rest knowing that it just works! With more performance and efficiency than ever, businesses of all sizes can do more and spend less by taking advantage of significant enhancements including:

• Lower cost of ownership — Do more with less hardware and resources. Analytical workloads are up to 50 percent faster and transactional workloads up to 10 percent faster than Informix 11.5. Additional automated features increase team productivity and optimize your environment without manual intervention.
• Continuous availability — Achieve up to 99.999 percent data availability with the industry's most comprehensive set of high-availability options, available in a platform independent environment. Automatically recover from system failures, and eliminate planned downtime with the new Flexible Grid.
• Easier administration — Manage Informix Flexible Grid from a single location to scale capacity when and where needed, on demand. You can even have different hardware and operating systems from one cluster to another.
• Reduced time and effort to compliance — New security enhancements include much more granular auditing, improved authentication, trusted context, and hard-drive encryption using Encryption Expert.
• Increased developer productivity — Serve modern business needs through new interoperability with popular open source tools such as Drupal, Hibernate, Geronimo, iBATIS, Mediawiki, Tomcat and Xwiki.

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• Which Informix Edition is right for you?

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