Draft Version: IBM Redbook - IDS 11.5: Extending Availability and Replication

• IDS 11.5: Extending Availability and Replication

The new draft is based on the already published Redbook IDS 11: Extending Availability and Replication which covered IDS 11. The following chapters contain updated and additional information regarding IDS 11.5:

• Chapter 7 - Updatable Secondary servers

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Kostenloser Workshop zu IDS 11.5 (Cheetah 2)

Das sagenhafte Comeback der Kultdatenbank geht mit IDS 11.5 in die nächste Runde. Hierzu bietet die IBM Deutschland einen weiteren, kostenlosen Workshop an, der einen Überblick zu den neuen Informix Funktionalitäten bietet:

IT Week: IBM 'Cheetah 2' mauls data costs

Excerpt:
The upgraded IDS, version 11.5 can deliver low-cost continuous data availability across clustered data centers. It can be configured to give high availability using commodity hardware set up as a cluster, and automatic workload balancing to optimise network connections to additional servers wherever they are located.

Read the complete press release here...

Intelligent Enterprise: IBM Informix Upgrade Enhances Clustering, Database Management

IBM Uncages Cheetah 2 Data Server

Excerpt:
"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."

IBM Helps Clients Reduce Data Management Costs With New IDS

Excerpt:
"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."

ZIFF Davis presents: Get the Scoop on IBM/Informix Cheetah 2

Update 2008-05-07

For those of you who didn't had the chance to attend this eSeminar, there is now a replay available at the following URL:

Replay: "Get the Scoop on IBM/Informix Cheetah 2"

You might need to register in order to be able to view the replay.

Time to Migrate: IDS V7 to IDS V11

There hasn't been a better time to upgrade old IDS V7 installations to IDS V11. IDS V11 comes with a whole bunch of new functionality, enhancements and "under the hood" improvements that will certainly boost your transaction throughput as well as increase the availability of your data.

The commitment of IBM to IDS is serious and rock solid, no doubt about that. The german "IBM Informix Infobahn" event, having been held this week in three different locations (Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg), demonstrated that IDS is an absolutely strategic data server for IBM. IBM invests a bulk of development resources to make IDS the absolutely first class data server for extreme OLTP and continuous availability.

Webcast: Optimizing IDS Performance

Update 2008-04-09 - Presentation download

The presentation can be downloaded thru the following URL:

Optimizing IDS Performance

• Date: Tuesday, April the 8th
• Time: 1.5 hour -- 8 AM PST, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eeastern, 4 PM London, 5 PM Paris, 5 PM Berlin
• Title: Optimizing IDS Performance

Webcast: Geographic Mashups

• Date: Wednesday, Feb 27th, 2008
• Time: 1.5 hours -- 8 AM PST, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eeastern, 4 PM London, 5 PM Paris, 5 PM Berlin
• Title: Geographic mashups: Bringing a spatial dimension to your Web applications
• Speaker 1: Robert Uleman, Consulting IT Specialist, IBM
• Speaker 2: Alan Caldera, Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Do your enterprise applications include the next level of information for business 

IDS 11.5 (Cheetah 2) Open Beta started

IBM has started the open beta for the 11.5 version of IDS (codename Cheetah 2):

You will find detailed download instructions on this site:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/open-beta.html