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IBM Helps Clients Reduce Data Management Costs With New IDS
Submitted by eherber on Tue, 2008-04-29 00:46. Under: cheetah2 | marketing | pressIBM Helps Clients Reduce Data Management Costs With New IDS
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"The new IDS 11.5, code-named "Cheetah 2," is tuned to enable customers to enhance business performance on cluster server environments using information management techniques inspired by IBM's mainframe systems. As a result, IDS is the first non-mainframe data server to provide clustered data centers with low-cost continuous data availability and disaster recovery -- regardless of geographic location or distance between backup data center sites."
IBM Uncages Cheetah 2 Data Server
Submitted by eherber on Tue, 2008-04-29 18:37. Under: cheetah2 | marketing | pressIBM Uncages Cheetah 2 Data Server
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"When the Informix team started on the continuous availability feature they already had a lot of experience with high availability and replication techniques," said Bernie Spang, director of data severs for IBM. "Likewise, the DB2/Z team had a long history of developing shared disk solutions. These two teams came together to think about how to get the best of both worlds. The result is the continuous availability feature … is now fully available in release 11.50."