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Im Nachgang zum 53. Workshop der Deutschen Informix User Group (IUG) möchte ich hier auf zwei interessante Einträge zum Thema Cloud Computing mit Informix verweisen:

• Informix application development and testing on the cloud

Reminder

This could be an interesting event for all of us who are interested in Cloud Computing. Good to see that IDS is part of this joined IBM/Amazon event. IDS with it's small footprint, great scalability and unmatched high availability architecture is probably the best suited commercial database for Cloud Computing:

Join us at this cloud computing virtual workshop for developers, professors, 

There is a new video on YouTube that describes the use of the IDS Developer Edition Virtual Appliance on the IBM Cloud:

• YouTube - IDS on the Cloud Demo
• Development and Test on the IBM Cloud

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In der aktuellen Ausgabe der Zeitschrift DatabasePro, die ab 07.07 offiziell am Kiosk erhaeltlich sein wird, ist ein Artikel zum Thema INFORMIX zu finden.

Dr. Jakob Jung beschreibt die neuen Funktionalitaeten und Angebote der IBM zu den Themen Datawarehousing und Virtualisierung/Cloud Computing mit Informix Dynamic Server.

• Date: Thursday, July the 15th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Compression and Storage optimization support in IDS
• Speaker: Kevin Cherkauer

You can register for the webcast here...

This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be related to Smarter 

• Date: Thursday, June the 11th
• Time: 1 hour -- 8:30 AM PST, 10:30 AM Central, 11:30 AM Eeastern, 4:30 PM London, 5:30 PM Paris, 5:30 PM Berlin
• Title: Virtualization and Cloud Computing with IDS
• Speaker: Guy Bowerman

You can register for the webcast here...

This month's Informix Chat with the Lab will be on the popular 

This is a live webcast hosted by Amazon. It is not Informix specific but discusses the the use of various IBM products (including IDS) on the Amazon EC2 platform:

• Date: Thursday, May the 7th
• Time: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 5:00 PM London, 6:00 PM Paris, 6:00 PM Berlin
• Title: Introduction to Amazon EC2 Running IBM

Excerpt:

Amazon Web Services and IBM have recently joined forces to 

The Amazon Web Services Blog has an interesting new article about using IBM Informix Dynamic Server in the Amazon EC2 Computing Cloud. The blog entry has links to flash presentations discussing the following topics:

1. Getting started with IDS and Amazon Web services
2. High Availability Demo

Today IBM announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver pay-as-you-go instances of IDS 11.50 Developer Edition and other IBM Software Group products running in the AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The IDS 11.50.UC3 Developer Edition instances, running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2, are available now to purchase and use at the Amazon base rate of 10c/hour.

Guy Bowerman has the details!

I found a very interesting article here:

A lot of noise is currently being generated around Cloud Computing and flexible IT infrastructures based on virtualised platforms.

There is no doubt that the technologies to be found at the heart of these types of solutions have matured considerably over the course of the last couple of years. However, both face significant challenges before any of the currently available offerings can be fully exploited by organisations.

For Cloud computing, chief amongst these concerns is the readiness of mainstream organisations to trust significant proportions of their essential, and hence incredibly valuable, corporate information to platforms and suppliers over whom they have little control and who might hold the data wherever they wish. Such a leap of faith is today beyond consideration in many business scenarios.