1. © 2006 IBM Corporation Information On Demand Informix – What Next! Lim Kok Yew Information Management Technical Sales

2. ©2006 IBM Corporation Agenda  Information as a Service  Informix Strategy & Roadmap  2005 Informix Business Highlights  IDS v10.0 Overview

3. ©2006 IBM Corporation Agenda  Information as a Service  Informix Strategy & Roadmap  2005 Informix Business Highlights  IDS v10.0 Overview

4. ©2006 IBM Corporation Standards-based e.g., XQuery, JCR, JDBC, Web Services... Information On Demand Moving From a Project-Based to a Flexible Architecture Master Data, Entity Analytics, Information Warehouses, Industry Models Extracted or Real-time

5. ©2006 IBM Corporation On Demand Infrastructure Software Service Oriented Architecture for an agile business

6. ©2006 IBM Corporation IBM Information Management software Unmatched product portfolio DB2 IDS U2 Cloudscape IMS Information Server Industry Models Product Center Customer Center Content Manager Record Manager Document Manager CommonStore Workplace Forms Alphablox Entity Analytics OmniFind Content Discovery

7. ©2006 IBM Corporation Data is the Most Valuable Business Asset  Client, employee, product and financial data…  Availability and performance impacts results  Secure, private access affects brand value A Fundamental Control Point  Not a commodity in most use cases  Unique advantages for solution developers  Cross platform integration = competitive advantage Needed by Every Business Application  No business solution works without data  Essential elements of an application platform  Requirements span a broad spectrum IBM Data Services Secure and efficient management of structured information Lower cost through an optimized infrastructure

8. ©2006 IBM Corporation Agenda  Information as a Service  Informix Strategy & Roadmap  2005 Informix Business Highlights  IDS v10.0 Overview

9. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS release roadmap IDS 7.31 7.31.UD10 7.31.UD11 IDS 9.4 9.40.UC8 9.40.UC9 IDS 10 10.00.UC510.00.UC610.00.UC7 2006 2008 2005 2007 2010 IDS vNext 10.00.UC510.00.UC610.00.UC7 vNext vNext+ vNext DataBlades & CSDK

10. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS: Then, now, and what’s to come IDS 10 2005 OLTP Performance 2006 Enhanced Data Services 2007 – Cheetah* Hands Free, Secure & ALWAYS ON!!! Panther*  Fastest, most- available Informix OLTP engine ever  IDS Express  PHP driver  Baan benchmarks  Continuous advances in OLTP engine solidify market position  Enhanced memory management  Enabled for sub-capacity  Improved spatial & geodetic support to support location- based services  Performance and High Availability enhancements  Significant security certification meets Common Criteria specifications  Further reduction in TCO with improved administration functions  Enhanced support for unstructured data  Customizable footprint on installation  Intelligent administration and monitoring  Enterprise security enhancements  Enhanced enterprise data management  Matrix-based replication  Enhanced administration functions * Subject to change

11. ©2006 IBM Corporation Key differentiators for new markets  Leverage existing applications development skills  SQL compatibility (data types, function, SQL Dialect)  Application behavioral compatibility  Application API compatibility  Dramatically lower TCO (improve DBA experience)  Improved disk space management  Intelligent monitoring and anticipation of problems  Smarter query optimization  Policy driven configuration

12. ©2006 IBM Corporation Future development will continue to focus on key pains  Meeting security & regulatory requirements  Minimizing downtime  Ease of embeddability  Improved application development environment  Improving DBA productivity

13. ©2006 IBM Corporation Pain Point #1: Security & regulatory compliance  Federal/State/Country requirements for government contracts  LSPP (B1), CAPP (C2)  HIPPA/SOX/GLBA  Auditing capabilities  Who can see what data and who has seen what data  System vulnerabilities  Add additional encryption for bolstering data security

14. ©2006 IBM Corporation Pain Point #2: Minimizing downtime  Planned vs. unplanned outages  Which takes greater time in your organization?  For planned upgrades  Is it database vs. application upgrade?  Improving on long running operations  Like HDR upgrade where whole backup is needed  ER – even easier to deploy and manage, embedded applications  Faster recovery  Has the effect of minimizing downtime  System failure (transaction recovery) vs. media failure (backup/restore)  More tasks online (vs. offline)  In place alters & space management

15. ©2006 IBM Corporation Pain Point #3: Ease of embeddability  Configurable footprint (choosing components)  Eliminate external software dependencies  Reducing configurable parameters  Easy and silent installs  Enhanced ER node deployment

16. ©2006 IBM Corporation Pain Point #4: Application development environment  SQL standards  Open up API’s for application development  PHP, admin tasks, DRDA support  Integration with IDE’s .NET Visual Studio, Rational  4GL to EGL migration tool and integration with Rational Application Development Suite products for expanded application development capability  Migration tools for conversion from other database vendors

17. ©2006 IBM Corporation Pain Point #5: Increasing DBA productivity  Reduce manual intervention for:  Choosing index  Performance tuning  Query drill down  Update stats  Monitoring disk usage for increasing size and reclaiming space  Intelligent backup and restore selection  Admin tools  # of configurable parameters

18. ©2006 IBM Corporation Agenda  Information as a Service  Informix Strategy & Roadmap  2005 Informix Business Highlights  IDS v10.0 Overview

19. ©2006 IBM Corporation 2005 was a busy year for Informix @ IBM February  IDS v10.0 Introduced April  IDS Express Introduced August  RAD 6.0.1 w/ capabilities for 4GL to EGL migration October  PHP Level 5 Driver for IDS December  Oracle to IDS MTK

20. ©2006 IBM Corporation Feb 2005: Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS) v10.0 Largest Informix release since 1999  Faster than ever!  Does more with less hardware! Reliability Performance Scalability  Keep information current anywhere on your network, where and when you need it, even during application upgrades!  Maintain operations even when disaster strikes!  Handles the smallest workloads efficiently  Scalable enough to handle the most demanding workloads to keep pace as your business grows! Manageability Security  Helps business meet regulatory compliance without costly application modifications  Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA  Provides lowest Total Cost of Ownership  Over a thousand remote instances can be handled by a single DBA.  Frees critical resources for business critical tasks!

21. ©2006 IBM Corporation Oct 2005: PHP Driver Informix is supported in most major development environments  PDO (PHP Data Objects) abstraction layer driver  Provides developers a light-weight, consistent interface for accessing Informix Dynamic Server += development partnership PHP 5.x Informix driver for PDO Download PDO_INFORMIX:  http://pecl.php.net/package/PDO_INFORMIX http://pecl.php.net/package/PDO_INFORMIX Read the installation guide:  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/informix/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/informix/ Learn how to use IDS & PHP with the Google Maps API  http://www- 128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm- 0602lurie/ http://www- 128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm- 0602lurie/

22. ©2006 IBM Corporation Dec 2005: Migration Toolkit from Oracle to IDS  IBM Migration Toolkit (MTK 1.4) now helps you migrate from Oracle and Sybase to IDS v10.0 IDS v10.0 MTK 1.4

23. ©2006 IBM Corporation 2006: The first IDS 10 Redbook!  Covers all aspects of IDS 10  Overview / Architecture  Installation / Configuration  SQL Features / Extensibility  Security / Encryption  Backup / Restore  Administration / Dev. Tools and  One chapter on SOA with IDS  Lots of step-by-step examples  Availability: Q4 2006  Download for free at: http://www.ibm.com/redbooks  Redbook ID: SG24-7299

24. ©2006 IBM Corporation Agenda  Information as a Service  Informix Strategy & Roadmap  2005 Informix Business Highlights  IDS v10.0 Overview

25. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 Performance Blazing OLTP performance for your mission-critical applications  Fully exploits hardware resources  Dynamic Scalable Architecture  Hardened cost-based optimizer  Easily handles mixed workloads  Does not require application changes as data volumes increase  Partition data to increase performance  Oracle requires additional Partition Option feature, partitioning data and modifying the application IDS v10.0 Enhancements  External optimizer directives  Improves support of ISV applications  Configurable page size  Improves performance of large keys  Improves performance of large rows

26. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 Reliability Eliminates costly downtime saving businesses time and money  IDS can be tuned online  Add/remove system resources to handle load changes  Built-in utilities can validate and repair indexes without dropping  Rolling application upgrades with Enterprise Replication IDS v10.0 Enhancements  Online index creation and rebuild  Can reduce scheduled downtime by half

27. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 Scalability Scales “without limits” in any direction to meet increasing workloads  Storage capacity  Loading at 1 gigabyte per minute  250 years to reach IDS capacity  Linear scalability  As resources on a system are doubled, processing capacity should double (application overhead usually prevents 100% linear scalability)  Competitive products tested didn’t provide the performance or scalability of IDS  Number of users  IDS is capable of handling thousands of concurrent users. deployment distributed across 1000s of sites types of data no limit to new data types transactions 1000’s of concurrent users huge data volumes

28. ©2006 IBM Corporation Bigger Storage  The 2 GB limit on chunk size is too painful  So we’ve removed it  New upper limit per chunk is 4 TB.  For 2 KB pages  Could be doubled to 8 TB later  Good through about 2010.  And increased the number of chunks  New upper limit is 32767  Could be doubled to 65535 later  The new upper limit on the size of an IDS instance is:  128 petabytes (128 * 10 15 bytes)

29. ©2006 IBM Corporation Bigger Storage  How big is 128 PB?  Very big!  US Library of Congress holds about 10 TB printed material.  128 PB is about 12,800 times the material in the LOC.  At current prices, it would cost about $3B to buy the disks.  Before mirroring or RAID is added in  At a load rate of 1 TB per hour, it would take about 15 years to fill a 128 petabyte database. VERY BIG!

30. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 Security Meets the demands of new regulatory and compliance requirements  Provides secure encrypted communications  Client-Server  Server-Server IDS v10.0 Enhancements  Column-level encryption  Helps support Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, HIPAA  Secure environment  Initialization ensures environment is secure at startup  DataBlade registration restrictions  Ensure DataBlades cannot be registered by hostile individuals

31. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 Manageability Lowers the cost of administration  Utilities  Online backup  High performance loader  Administrative support  Fast deployment and upgrade  Diagnostic tools  Scripting capabilities IDS v10.0 Enhancements  Table-level point-in-time restore  Can restore a single table or portion of a table from a backup  Create/drop index online  Install improvements  Backup and restore enhancements

32. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 Availability Offers industry-leading data availability options High-Availability Data Replication (HDR)  Creates a duplicate copy of an IDS server  Useful for:  Disaster Recovery  Off-loading reports/queries  Secondary server can be local or remote Enterprise Replication (ER)  Replicates data to any other IDS system on your network  Allows enterprise systems to feed departmental systems  Allows enterprise systems to feed regional or local systems  Allows operations across thousands of nodes

33. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 HDR High-Availability Data Replication for maximum availability Two Active Machines  Primary  Processes transactions  Ships log entries to the other machine  Secondary  Cloned from the primary  Receives and stores log entries from the primary  Re-applies the transactions  Can be used for reporting  If primary fails, the secondary takes over Primary HDR Secondary

34. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 ER Enterprise Replication for maximum enterprise synchronicity  Can replicate any portion of a database  Bi-directional replication  Supports complex topologies  Supports thousands of nodes  Supports WANs  Useful for departmental or hierarchical applications  Works transparently with High Availability Data Replication (HDR) IDS v10.0 Enhancements  ER templates reduce administration  Simplifies set up  Speeds deployment  Re-Sync tables improves availability  Repair a system where some replicated changes failed  Alter table support  Supports rolling upgrades of applications  Not available with competitive products

35. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS DataBlades Extends the power of IDS to create customized solutions  Object-relational server extensions integrated into the database engine core  Delivers unparalleled application functionality and outstanding performance  Spatial  Geodetic  TimeSeries  TimeSeries Real-time Loader  Excalibur Text Search  MQseries  Image Foundation  Video Foundation  Web  C-ISAM DataBlade Corner on developerWorks: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/informix/corner_dd.html IDS DataBlades

36. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS Version Comparison A track record of continued investment in Informix technology Feature IDS v7.xIDS v9.4IDS v10.0 Object Relational Database XX Detached Indexes XX Fuzzy Checkpoints XX Dynamic Logging XX Chunk size 2GB4TB, max db size 8PB Restartable fast recovery XX HDR & ER interoperability XX Buffer Manager XX B-tree Scanner XX Dynamic lock manager XX Configurable page sizes X Column-level encryption X Point-in-time table-level restore X Shared memory segments > 4GB X Rename dbspaces X Performance enhancements 15-20% greater than v7.x5-10% greater than v9.4 Online Index creation X

37. ©2006 IBM Corporation IDS v10.0 Extensive Platform Support Windows 2000, 2003 and XP on x86 AIX on pSeries Linux on xSeries, zSeries, pSeries and iSeries IRIX HP-UX on PA-RISC and Itanium Tru64 on Alpha Solaris on SPARC

38. ©2006 IBM Corporation  Informix Product Family Homepage - http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/  Informix Platform Roadmap - http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/pubs/roadmaps.html  Informix Product Life Cycle (PLC) Roadmap - http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/support/plc/ http://www.ibm.com/software/data/informix/support/plc/  Informix Developer’s Homepage - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/zones/informix / n Informix International User Group (IIUG) – http://www.iiug.orghttp://www.iiug.org Informix Resources

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