Informix Enterprise Replication is a powerful way to replicate data assets across distributed installations and keep them consistent.
Customized use of the Admin-Scout thanks to the new role concept
With the ONCONFIG Explorer, Admin-Scout 3.2 offers a completely new module for managing ONCONFIG variables.
The entire storage administration clearly arranged in one module!
Admin Scout 3.2 offers a long-awaited feature: easy comparison of the databases' structures in different instances.
Development
Revised user interface
We asked the question, which areas of an Informix database system have to be administered manually and where is it possible to set up an automated administration? The goal is to achieve increasing automation and independent optimization of the system through an interaction of sensors and tasks.
Already in the last versions many improvements were introduced for the security of the Admin Scout. It was very important for us that during a login no more passwords are transferred between Admin-Scout and the browser.
Important features for cluster configuration and better analysis of instances in a group
The Admins-Scout Dashboard is an extremely powerful and informative tool that gives you an overview of the state of your Informix servers
An Admin-Scout feature for fast analysis of DBSpaces
Comparing IBM Informix and Oracle Database for High Availability and Data Replication
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Executive Brief January 2014
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Conclusions
The capabilities of Informix 12 provide clear-cut value as an alternative to Oracle database and RAC in distributed as well as centralized deployments. They also however have broader implications.
Growth in conventional data volumes and the emerging world of Big Data are making replication an increasingly critical feature of the IT landscape. At the same time, pressures to accelerate collection, interpretation and delivery of information are placing new stress on database and date warehouse infrastructures.
These trends make integrated database and replication architecture — which is unique to Informix — increasingly attractive. Organizations may accelerate data management and movement process while minimizing use of server resources and network bandwidth, reducing administrative complexities, maintaining availability and operating transparently across diverse hardware and software bases.
Organizations with longstanding Oracle commitments may argue that Oracle is their database standard. However, as far as costs are concerned, "sole source" procurements seldom represent a best practice in the IT world. Informix 12 offers an opportunity for great cost-effectiveness.
Costs are not the only issue. Legacy data structures leave organizations ill equipped to deal with the challenges of data growth and sophistications, as well as real-time delivery of information. Even where these challenges can be met with new add-ons and overlays, software stacks will grow increasingly complex and inefficient, and costs will escalate.
Where database infrastructure must meet the challenge of the future, Informix is an obvious candidate.
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Informix go’s NoSQL
IBM Informix NoSQL (2013-09)
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