InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse

The newly enhanced IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse C3000, C4000, and D5100 models help you achieve greater access to information and analytics, faster time to value, and reduced cost of ownership. Whether you are looking to jump-start a departmental reporting implementation or searching for an enterprise-warehousing platform at an exceptional price-to-performance ratio, IBM InfoSphere Balanced Warehouse has the answer.

At a Glance:

• Energy-smart designs using Intel® Xeon® processors (formerly know as Nehalem)
• New standby server pricing options to help reduce the cost of providing high availability and disaster recovery
• Windows® Server 2008 support for C3000 and C4000
• Numerous warehousing software features that provide:

• Application compatibility to help reduce the cost of data mart consolidation
• Simplified analytics, that help business users to discover revenue opportunities faster
• Operational insight with end-to-end support for XML documents
• Enhancing overall availability of information to business users
• Potential for greater storage and management cost savings with broadened use of deep compression technologies

Application compatibility to help reduce the cost of data mart consolidation

• Adaptable concurrency support to help improve portability and performance
• Broad range of data typing and casting functions including implicit type casting, to leverage many data development models such as PHP, Perl, etc.
• Extensive tooling for managing data migration and consolidation
• Integrated platform for developing OLTP and analytical applications

Simplified analytics that help business users to discover revenue opportunities faster

• Multidimensional analysis with enhanced security features enabling consolidated design and deployment of OLAP models to a wider audience
• Advanced features in C4000 and D5100:

• Data preparation and solution templates enable information as a service
• Data mining wizards to make information more accessible to more people

Operational insight with end-to-end support for XML documents

• Provides market leading scalability for managing and analyzing large volumes of native XML data
• Updates and queries XML data in its native format
• Helps improve performance when managing XML records

Enhancing overall availability of information to business users

• Enhanced manageability and self-management:

• Migrates data to new tables without loss of availability
• Enables robust operational BI with improved resiliency to errors

• C4000 and D5100 workload management features:

• More effective monitoring and ease of workload management through a graphical user interface
• Automated threshold workload management that reconfigures for peak workloads

Potential for greater storage and management cost savings with enhanced deep compression technology in D5100

• Index compression
• Temporary table compression
• XML compression
• Large object inlining