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Discover Informix 11.7: Smarter Data Management with Informix

Jerry Keesee

Informix World Wide Director

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Every VISA transaction authorization in U.S.

8 of the top 10 U.S. Retailers

Mission Critical Applications Rely On Informix

IBM badge entry systems (and many others)

United States “911” Emergency System

95% of all telco service delivery providers

20 of the top 25 U.S. Supermarkets

Informix Helps Build a Smarter Planet

We see hidden patterns

Traffic Master delivers Smart Traffic systems powered by Informix

We know the best way from A to B

We deliver smarter health care at lower cost

Woman’s Health USA provides physicians “back room” business support powered by Informix

We deliver packages faster

Unique Express manages driver and vehicle resources with a Smart Freight solution powered by Informix

We make sure you can buy tickets online

Ticketcorner delivers a Smart Ticketing system powered by Informix

Informix Flexible Grid for Smarter Availability and Scalability

“Informix Flexible Grid technology promises measurable IT cost

savings for any size business.“

Romana Opletalova, General Manager, d-Prog Ltd.

• Scale globally

• Manage easily

• Balance workloads

• Rolling Upgrades

• Heterogeneous

• Avoid platform lock-in

• Ideal for the Cloud

Smarter Transportation and Shipping

“By using the Flexible Grid feature of Informix 11.7, our IT department has saved administrative

time that can now be used to create new functionality and applications for our customers.” ~ Felipe Villegas, CIO, DHL Express Mexico

What’s smart? • Enhanced customer service with user

insight into 500,000 shipment

checkpoints

• Improved staff efficiencies with 12X

faster system backups/administration

• Reduced IT costs through

compatibility with multiple platforms

Smarter Business Outcomes • Reclaimed staff productivity enables

new customer services and

applications

• Rapid growth is matched by

performance and ease of scale-out

Smarter Gaming

Game Show Network meets growing user demand and enhances revenue

with around-the-clock game availability

What’s smart? • High performance for tens of thousands of

players per day enjoying 750,000 games

per day with a single DBA

• Projected 50-percent increase in analytics

to match players based on similar skill-

levels and to prevent fraud

Smarter Business Outcomes • No unplanned downtime for past two

years; avoidance of planned downtime

• Avoidance of $100,000 expenditure for

new server capacity

“The Flexible Grid feature of Informix enables us to perform rolling upgrades without any outages,

so players can go on playing with no interruption and no impact on our revenue. That’s worth its

weight in gold.”

~ Susan Marciano, Vice President of Technical Operations, Game Show Network

Smarter Cloud Computing with Informix

– Only database that can be utilized and provisioned in a cloud

model on heterogeneous, commodity hardware

– Easily manage the entire environment from a single console using

a comprehensive set of administration commands

– Modern development environment for cloud and mobile technology

deployments

– Provide around-the-clock services with virtually NO downtime, even

for routine maintenance and upgrades

– Manage workload utilization cost effectively for both OLTP and

Decision Support applications

Data Mart Reservations

Transactional DB HR DB

Operations DB

Informix Cloud

Console

•Manage Utilization

•Manage database provisioning

•Manage workloads

•Time to Value

•Time to Service

•DC optimization

•Reduced Costs

BI App

Transactional App J2EE Operations App

Informix for Cloud Computing Use Case - Direct to database cloud scenario

Informix Warehouse Accelerator for Smarter Business Intelligence

Analytics at the Speed of Thought!

What is it? How is it different?

The Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) is a

workload optimized, appliance-like, add-on, that

enables the integration of business insights into

operational processes to drive winning strategies.

It accelerates select queries, with unprecedented

response times.

Performance. Unprecedented response

times to enable 'train of thought' analysis

frequently blocked by poor query

performance.

Integration. Connects to IDS through deep

integration providing transparency to all

applications.

Transparency. applications connected to

IDS, are entirely unaware of IUWE

Simplified administration. appliance-like

hands-free operations, eliminating

database tuning tasks

Informix Warehouse Accelerator Proof Points Analytics at the Speed of Thought

Customer/Industry IWA

Current

Solution % Faster

Large retail customer 55 sec 700 min 76,000

Skechers 2 sec 45 min 135,000

Government agency 15 min 9 hr 40 min 3,800

European Agency 67 sec 90 min 8,000

Informix Warehouse Editions

Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition Informix Growth Warehouse

Edition (available Q4)

Components Informix Ultimate Edition

Informix Warehouse Accelerator

ISAO Studio

Informix Compression

Informix Growth Edition

Informix Warehouse Accelerator

ISAO Studio

Limits Max memory available

No core limits

Informix on 4 platforms:

AIX64, Sol64, HPUX64, Linux-Intel64

IWA on Linux-Intel 64

Informix Growth Edition

16 cores, 16 GB memory max

Informix on 4 platforms:

AIX64, Sol64, HPUX64, Linux-Intel64

IWA on Linux-Intel 64

48 GB Max, 16 core limit

Target > 300 GB of raw data < 300 GB of raw data

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Informix TimeSeries for Management of Interval Data

• Time Series (interval) data is:

– A set of data where each item is time-stamped

• Think of an array where each element is indexed by time

• Most useful when reading a range of data

– “Give me Jan 1st thru Jan 10th elements from time series “X”

• Access to one time series is usually completed before moving to the

next time series

A New Meter Data Management (MDM) Benchmark

• WHO

– IBM – AMT-SYBEX (IBM Business Partner; provider of

solutions for Energy & Utility companies

• WHAT

– Joint benchmark test of AMT-SYBEX’s MDM solution, Affinity MeterFlow, using IBM Informix TimeSeries software to manage smart meter data

– Tests conducted using a single IBM POWER7® system, utilizing 16 cores.

• WHEN and WHERE

– Performed at the IBM Power Systems Benchmark Center; Montpellier, France

– August 2011

Unprecedented MDM Benchmark Results

• 100 million meters!

– End-to-end processing time < 8 hours (30-minute intervals)

• 10 million meters!

– End-to-end processing time < 36 minutes (30-minute intervals)

• Linear results!

– Overall processing time remained constant with increased historical

data

– Storage usage remained linear with increasing data

• 31 days of meter data used < 4TB of standard storage

Informix Genero for Smarter Development of Mobile and Cloud-based Apps

• Deploy apps faster with easy, graphical tools

– Deploy in browser-based, GUI, Windows or mobile and cloud

environments

• Lower development costs

– Improve developer productivity

– Develop apps 5 to 10 times faster

– Modernize existing 4GL apps

Desktop, Web & Mobile

"Genero is enabling us to shift our entire business model to Software as a Service at a pace we simply could not

achieve with other tools. We have gone from green-screen to graphical desktop and now to cloud-based rich

internet applications, all while maintaining our core Informix 4GL business logic. ~ George Pepper, Senior Vice

President, Operations, SunGard Public Sector

Smarter Manufacturing

“Genero saved us from having to redevelop all our applications, which we would have been

forced to do with a Java or .NET solution.” ~ Ulrike Otersen, Manager of Software Development, Böckmann Fahrzeugwerke GmbH

What’s smart? • Two-week migration of 4GL

applications to Informix

Genero,

• 20 percent decrease in

errors and 20 percent

increase in productivity

Smarter Business

Outcomes • Retained 100% investment

in years of business logic

• Faster development enabling

faster time-to-market

Böckmann Fahrzeugwerke meets growing user demand and enhances

revenue through modernization of their applications.

Informix Deep Embed

• Self-Configuring – Build a package containing:

• Informix Server, • (Optional) pre-built database(s) • (Optional) applications

– Package compression – Deployment Assistant/Utility – Deploy, decompress, and install the package

on multiple systems – Can be used for media distribution, such as CDs

• Self-Maintenance – Automated storage allocation – Allows chunks to be extended automatically – Adds chunks automatically when space is low – Customized thresholds for events

• Self-Healing – Internal error handling and retries – Automatically timeout idle users – Automated storage optimization per custom settings – Automatically add CPU VPs to match hardware/licensing during start-up – Automated DB Scheduler tasks

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Informix is embedded in Cisco’s Key Products

• Informix was recognized as software vendor of the year at

Cisco for 2011

• Informix is currently included in over 25+ products at Cisco

• 100,000’s of customers run Informix – without Administration requirements

“Cisco is taking advantage of the fact that Informix is easily embeddable, and

also, the redundant capabilities that Informix has to allow us to use our

distributed architecture to scale for our customers.” Phil Harris, Senior

Director of Engineering, Cisco

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Informix V9.4

Informix on zLinux

Informix Workgroup Edition

Informix Red Brick V6.20

Informix V10

Column level encryption

Informix Express

Informix XPS V8.50

Informix .NET provider

Red Brick V6.3

Informix “Cheetah” V11.10

Database Encryption Expert

Active-active Clustering

Informix XPS 8.51

SQL Admin API

Common Criteria Certification

Web 2.0 drivers and support

Informix V11.50

OpenAdmin Tool

Informix Warehouse Feature, Editions

Compression

Infosphere CDC Support

Informix on Amazon, IBM Clouds

SQL Warehousing Tool

IBM Mashup Center

Embedability Toolkit

Informix System X cluster configurations

Informix “Panther” V11.70

Informix Warehouse Accelerator in 2 new editions

TimeSeries benchmark

Informix Genero

Default Content Store – Cognos Express Informix Choice Ed

Additional XPS features in IDS

Informix Open Source Project initiative

Expanded Sales Tiger team

Expanded Product Management team

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IBM has increasingly invested in Informix year over year since the acquisition

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Higher OLTP Performance compared to IDS 9.4

OLTP Excellence Improved Performance with linear scale-out

Warehouse Performance initiative Improved linear scale-out with read/write on all secondaries

OLTP and Warehouse Performance Excellence

Orders of Magnitude BI Performance gains with IWA Optimal mixed workload performance

IDS 10 IDS 11 IDS 11.5 Informix 11.7 IUWE 11.7

Exceeding 7.31 Performance Improved Efficiencies

IDS 9.4

… while lowering Total Cost of Ownership

10 Years of Performance Innovation …. (Business View)

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2011 New Offerings and Announcements!

Informix Ultimate Warehouse Edition

• Announced March 31st 2011

• Several PoCs in progress

• Single solution for mixed workloads

• Ground-breaking performance gains for Warehouse workloads

Informix Growth Warehouse Edition

• Mid-market version of IUWE

• Announced Oct 25, 2011

• Available at a fraction of the cost of IUWE

Informix Genero

• Business application dev platform for Informix

• IDE for legacy Informix 4GL and new biz app development for Informix

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Strong Partner Ecosystem – Adding new partners constantly!!

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Accounting, Financial,

CRM, ERP

Telecom, Govt, Security, Mobile

Energy Management,

Smart Metering

69 new partners recruited worldwide in 2011 65% have solutions ported, 30% already selling

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Informix vNext*

Warehouse/BI improvements

Benchmarks

Informix TimeSeries

enhancements

Informix for Cloud

Informix for Handhelds

Enhance Deep Embed

Industry specific

enhancements

Informix Genero

Enhancements

SQL Enhancements for Grid

Continued IBM S/W integration

Informix vNext+*

* Features and timeline Subject to change

Informix vNext++*

Informix Long Term Roadmap

Flexible Grid

Availability

Modernization

Security

Applications

Performance

Distributed

query processing on grid

Extend Grid to

non-database sources

Genero Enhancements

Cloud/Hadoop Enhancements

Continued IBM S/W integration

Continue to invest

in Informix to

increase its

strengths and to

open new markets

2012*

2014*

2016*

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Smart Data

Modernization

Warehouse Cloud

Embedability

Informix Centaurus (vNext) – Key Themes

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Informix Centaurus – Themes and key features *

Smart Data

•Enhanced SQL interface to timeseries data

•Expand the ability to replicate timeseries data

Modernization

•OAT option on server install for supported platforms (welcome screen)

•Graphically create demo db

•Guidance on basic tasks

•Start/Stop server

•Onconfig recommendations

•Multi-server dashboard

•OAT support for IWA

•OAT lite for mobile devices

Warehouse

•Support for trickle feed with fragment optimization

•Integration with OpenAdminTool - administration - estimation of how much acceleration can be achieved

•Data Concurrency - adding IWA clones for parallel query execution

Cloud

•Continued Enhancements for Amazon and IBM Smart Clouds

•Query at the Grid level

•Unified Connection Manager for Single or Cluster nodes

•SDS Failover when TCP connections are lost

Embedability

•Enhanced compression with Index, text/byte compression

•Table Purge by Time/Space

•Enhanced storage mgmt with Primary Storage Manager (replaces ISM)

•Enhance Private Server Replication

•Improved SQL Compatability (OLTP and OLAP)

•Additional SPL enhancements

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* Features and timeline Subject to change

Informix Early Access Program

• IBM Informix Early Access Program

– Get early access to new capabilities

– Prototype solutions in your environment for faster

deployment

– Access to IBM resources through lab advocates

– Assist the IBM Information Management team in defining the

product roadmap

Sign Up Now

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2012 IIUG Informix Conference April 22 – 25, 2012

San Diego California, USA

San Diego Marriott Mission Valley

The Board of Directors of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG) announces the IIUG 2012 Informix Conference, to be held at the San Diego

Marriott Mission Valley on April 22-25, 2012.

For more details visit the official conference web site www.iiug.org/conf

Attention Speakers: We are now accepting Presentation Proposals thru Nov. 1, 2012.

Details at the conference web site. http://www.iiug.org/conf/call_for_presentations/

Wherever you plan to go with your data in the next decade, IBM Informix software can help you get there.

Thank you!

Extras

Informix Warehouse Accelerator Performance Tests

• Queries faster by 100 times!

– Large retail customer reduces query times from 700 mins to 55 secs

– Shoe retailer reduces longest running query from 45 mins to 2 secs

– Government agency reduces report time from 9 hrs 40 mins to 15 mins

– European government agency reduces query time from 90 mins to 67

secs

• Scales up on latest Intel Hardware!

– IWA scales up in SMP and scales out in cluster

– IWA takes full advantage of Intel chips

– Double digit performance improvement on newer chips with no change

in software

Benefits of Informix Warehouse Accelerator

• 3rd generation database management technology utilizing in-memory, columnar

approach

• Provides predicate evaluation on compressed data

• Requires no change to queries submitted either directly or via 3rd-party tools

• Utilizes low-cost commodity hardware

• Eliminates time-consuming query tuning

• Eliminates building of cubes/summary tables

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Informix Helps German Aerospace Center (DLR) Assess Damage after Japanese Tsunami

German and European satellite missions rely on the archival and access services of DFD‘s Data

and Information Management System.

‘‘Informix with Geodetic technology provides us with the necessary performance and scalability

for ongoing and future satellite missions“

Eberhard Mikusch, Head of the Information Technology Department,

German Remote Sensing Data Center

The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) leverages Informix Grid and Geodetic technology to gather data to help assess damage.

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Informed Decision-making Add ‘intelligence’ in the Intelligent Utility Network

Phase A Current (AMPS)

NeutralMorristown StatusPhase C VoltagePhase B voltagePhase A Voltage

Phase B Current (AMPS) Phase C Current (AMPS) Intraday Phase Current

Phase A Angle Phase A Angle Phase A Angle

Morristown Status

Phase A Current (AMPS)

NeutralMorristown StatusPhase C VoltagePhase B voltagePhase A Voltage

Phase B Current (AMPS) Phase C Current (AMPS) Intraday Phase Current

Phase A Angle Phase A Angle Phase A Angle

Morristown Status

Information management with InfoSphere Warehouse, Netezza, and Informix Time Series integrates

disparate data and systems

Provide meaningful information and insights to the utility’s various stakeholders with Cognos Business

Intelligence and SPSS Statistical Analysis

Optimize business performance, organization and planning with iLog Optimization

Business event monitoring with WebSphere Decision Server helps visualize, detect, evaluate, correlate and

respond to business events and improves utility operations and planning

Asset, Device

and Service

Monitoring

Asset

Lifecycle

Management

Business

Process

Automation

Regulatory,

Risk and

Compliance

Management

Improved

Customer

Experience

Informed

Decision

Making

Security

Solutions

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Pricing & Packaging

Storage Provisioning

Mach 11ER

Autonomics

WarehouseSQL Updates

Auto-update Statistics

Dynamic Configurations

Non-blocking Checkpoint

Storage provisioning

Multi-page sizes

Big chunks

Compression

Re-pack & re-shrink

Online partitioning

Increased # chunks& dbspaces

Online everything

Intelligent Embed

Flexible HA

Extreme Performance

HDR/SDS/RSS

Flexible Grid

Connection Manager

New Informix Editions

Developer Edition

Free Downloads

IWA

IUWE

Star/Snowflake schema

Star/Snowflake joins

Online repair & templates

Embed enhancements

ER improvements

Multi-index processing

SQL Admin API

Transaction Survival

Most Under-appreciated

Non-blocking checkpoint

HDR/SDS/RSS

Packaging & Pricing

Performance with little effort

SQL enhancements

Transaction Survival

Celebrating 10 Years of Smarter Innovations

Offering Overview

• TerraEchos ADELOS S4 Sensor Array provides covert

surveillance capabilities to detect, classify, and act on

threats to critical infrastructure.

• Fiber Optic Acoustic sensor technology licensed from US

Navy and digital signal processing hardware built by S&K

Electronics

• Built using IBM Technology (InfoSphere Streams, Informix

with Spatial and TimeSeries)

Pain Points

S4 Security System

• Reliability and Stability are paramount and need to

function for years without significant upgrades

• Advanced functionality of Spatial & Time Series data

required

• Scalable, stream-based analytics required to handle

Gigabytes of data per second

Benefits

Critical Infrastructure Security

• Single strand of fiber optic cable buried covertly

• Ability to detect and track multiple targets along fiber

optic zones

• Zones are flexible and can be redefined

programmatically

• Advanced Signature Classification libraries

• Integrated detection into actionable workflow

Fiber Optic Acoustic Security

SWG Industry frameworks in IBM

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Meter Data Management (MDM) benchmark used Informix TimeSeries technology

built on top of high performing Informix database engine

MDM benchmark IWA performance tests demonstrate Informix can meet any

performance challenge across a broad spectrum of industries

Leverages Informix’s dynamically scalable multi-threaded architecture

Exploits efficient checkpoints, direct I/O, optimal disk fragmentation etc.

Exploits hardware capabilities (e.g. IWA benchmark) for maximum performance

The Benchmarks proved Informix database specifically solves a key data

management challenges which other database cannot solve without massive

hardware.

Expect to recruit new partners and win new business as result of interest generated

by these benchmarks

MDM Benchmark helped created visibility and re-vitalize Informix within IBM GBS

and S&D teams who are focusing on IBM’s Smarter Planet solutions

IWA Performance results are generating significant interest from Informix install base

for mixed workload applications

Informix Performance Benchmarks and Testing

Reducing risk Ensure the right levels of security and resiliency

across all business data and processes

Breakthrough agility Increase ability to quickly deliver new services to capitalize

on opportunities while containing costs and managing risk

Higher quality services Improve quality of services and deliver new services

that help the business grow and reduce costs

Doing more with less Reduce capital expenditures and operational expenses

Smarter Cloud Computing