IIUG 2017 – The Premier Informix Event

April 23 - 27, 2017
Marriott City Center, Raleigh, NC, USA

The largest gathering of Informix DBAs, Developers and Business Partners in the world.
3 Full Days of Educational Sessions to meet all of your Informix DBA and Developer needs.

Developers

The IIUG conference enables developers to find the newest and most powerful ways to utilize Informix.

DBAs

The best technical information to maximize your Informix potential.

Managers

Learn why Informix has the lowest TCO in the industry while having some of the most powerful tools available for your business.

Visit www.iiug2017.org for more information
IIUG 2017 Conference Planning Committee

IBM Informix on Cloud

White Paper by Bloor
Author Philip Howard
Publish date January 2017

This paper discusses the latest release of IBM Informix, which offers the ability to host Informix on the IBM Cloud (SoftLayer and Bluemix).

Informix, one of the databases offered by IBM, has a long and illustrious history. It is well known as a platform for supporting applications developed by third parties and ISVs, primarily for use in transactional environments.

This is because Informix is a robust offering that combines high performance and functionality with minimal administrative requirements. However, this paper does not discuss these features of the product in any detail.

Instead, we are here concerned with the latest release of IBM Informix, which offers the ability to host Informix on the IBM Cloud.

View White Paper on IBM Website

IBM Announces Informix on Cloud
speed innovation and save costs

(IBM Announcement ENUSZP16-0499 - 27.09.2016)

IBM Informix on Cloud gives you the ability to speed innovation and save costs by choosing a cloud deployment for your workloads

At a glance

IBM Informix on Cloud delivers all of the capabilities of the Informix Advanced Enterprise server deployed in on-premises configurations but without the time and expense of a hardware purchase, system administration, and management. The cloud-delivered Informix server will be configured for OLTP workloads and also includes entitlement to Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) that delivers incredible query acceleration through columnar, compressed, in-memory technology.

Provides database as a service on the IBM SoftLayer global cloud infrastructure
Comes with an OLTP preconfigured instance
Includes IBM Informix Warehouse Accelerator entitlement
Supports cloud deployments of applications that will need JSON/BSON and SQL apps simultaneously in the same database, in the same queries
Allows for faster deployment of innovative cloud applications due to REST interface and MQTT

Key features and benefits of Informix on Cloud are:

Accelerates and simplifies deployment: Reduces costs and time required to take advantage of the high-performance Informix engine that integrates TimeSeries, Spatial, NoSQL, and SQL data.
Seamless integration of application data:
Delivers high-performance operational and analytic processing across the
boundaries of cloud environments and on-premises configurations.
Native encryption with all configurations.
Secure your data at rest and in flight.
DBMS servers sized to meet your business demands:
S, M, L, and XL configurations.

Read full Annoncement online here ...

69. IUG Workshop und Mitgliederversammlung (20.10.2016)

Die Informix User Group ist ein unabhängiger Verein, mit der Aufgabe Informix Anwender im deutschsprachigen Raum zusammenzuführen. Die Ziele sind ein aktiver Erfahrungsaustausch, gemeinsame Problemlösung und konstruktive kritische Anregungen zu IBM Informix in einer starken Gemeinschaft.

Thema des Workshops: Wandel in der IT, Keyplayer Informix

IUG Mitglieder und Interessenten können sich bis zum 13.10.2016 auf der IUG Homepage anmelden:

Anmeldung zur IUG Mitgliederversammlung 2016

Anmeldung für den 69. IUG Workshop

Erik Stahlhut und Andreas Seifert von der CURSOR Software AG, werden im Rahmen des 69. IUG Workshops den Admin-Scout für Informix vorstellen.

Nutzen Sie die Gelegenheit den Admin-Scout life kennenzulernen. Sehen Sie wie die Administration durch aussagekräftige Dashboards und automatisiertes Reporting vereinfacht wird, wie Sie durch vorausschauendes Monitoring und Alarmierung Engpässe und Ausfälle vermeiden und wie Sie durch die Kombination von System- und Datenbankmonitoring mehr Sicherheit gewinnen. Besprechen Sie mit den Kollegen Ihre Herausforderungen und prüfen Sie gemeinsam, wie unsere Best-Practice Toolbox Sie in der Administration unterstützen kann.

Kommen Sie nach Köln,
wir freuen uns auf das Gespräch mit Ihnen!

IBM Informix
and the Internet of Things

White Paper by Bloor
Author Philip Howard
Publish date July 2016

Informix, one of the databases offered by IBM, has a long and illustrious history. In particular, it is well known as a platform for supporting applications developed by third parties and ISVs, primarily for use in transactional environments. This is because Informix is a robust offering that combines high performance and functionality with minimal administrative requirements.

However, this paper does not discuss these features of the product in any detail. Instead, we are here concerned with the use of IBM Informix within Internet of Things (IoT) environments. Indeed, we can start by saying that IBM Informix is IBM’s database of choice for IoT deployments, which should be reassuring to any existing users that might have been concerned about continuing investment into this database product.

View White Paper on IBM Website

Using IBM Informix on the Cloud - Webcast (26.09.2016)

Summary

Does your business depend on core database solutions for mission critical operations?
Are you considering or are you already doing business with systems in the cloud?
Join this webcast and learn about IBM's latest offerings for using Informix in the cloud.

Date: Monday, September 26, 2016

Time: 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time / (MESZ 18:00 - 19:00)

Duration: 1 hour

Speakers

Nicholas Geib
Solution Architect IBM Analytics

Nicholas develops software in and related to the IBM Informix database. He has contributed to Informix's high-availability and replication functionality and more recently helped bring Informix to the cloud.

Link to registration: http://bit.ly/2cf3KIq