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Cloud Computing
Strategic View
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Topics
Cloud Computing
IBM Academic Skills Cloud
(Pilot)
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What is cloud computing?
Cloud services
Cloud computing
model
Cloud computing is a
new consumption
and delivery model inspired by consumer
Internet services.
Cloud enables
:
– Self-service
– Sourcing options
– Economies of scale
Cloud represents:
– The
industrialization
of delivery
for
IT-supported services
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To improve the economics of business and IT workloads,
virtualization, standardization and automation have to come together
=
Cost
VIRTUALIZATION
+
STANDARDIZATION
+
AUTOMATION
Flexibility
… to free budget for
new investment
and speed
deployment of
new capabilities.
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End
Users
Service Portal
Service Request
Catalog
Provisioning Engine
Workflows
Expert Systems
Scripts
Optional Service
Modules
e.g. Metering/
Usage Billing,
Monitoring, etc.
Virtualized Cloud
Infrastructure
Benefits
:
Lower cost
Ease-of-use and access
Process transformation
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Cloud is different in many dimensions
Weeks or Months
Seconds to Minutes
Time to Deploy a Server
Negotiate & Commit Year-long Contract
Select from Catalog & Pay As You Go
Commitment to use Service
$K-$M in Infrastructure → $$ per IT hour
No or Low Upfront → ¢ per IT hour
Necessary Upfront Investment
© 2010 IBM Corporation Hardware Costs ( - 89%) Hardware Costs ( - 89%) Labor Costs ( - 81%) Labor Costs ( - 81%) Deployment (1-time) Deployment (1-time)
Liberated
funding for new
development,
transformation
investment or
direct saving
Liberated
funding for new
development,
transformation
investment or
direct saving
Strategic
Change
Capacity
Hardware, labor & power savings reduced annual cost of operation by 84%Hardware
Costs
(
annualized)
Hardware
Costs
(
annualized)
New Development New DevelopmentIBM Technical Adoption Program (TAP)—ROI Analysis
Innovation Cloud for 100,000 Subscribers
Current IT Spend 100%
Labor Costs
(
Operations and Maintenance)
Power Costs (- 89%) Power Costs Software Costs Software CostsReduced Capital Expenditure
Reduced Operations Expenditure
Additional Benefits
Reduced risk, less idle time, more efficient
use of energy, acceleration of innovation
projects, enhanced customer service
Business Case Results:
Annual savings: $3.3M (84%)
from $3.9M to $0.6M
Payback Period: 73 days
Net Present Value (NPV): $7.5M
Internal Rate of Return (IRR): 496%
Return On Investment (ROI): 1039%
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The IBM Cloud Delivery Models
Enterprise
Enterprise Enterprise D a ta C e n t e r Private Cloud Enterprise D a ta C e n te r IBM operated Managed Private CloudIBM owned and operated
IBM owned and operated Hosted Private Cloud User A User B User C User D User E P u b lic C lo u d S e r v ic e s Enterprise A Enterprise B Enterprise C S h a r e d C lo u d S e r v ic e s
1
2
3
4
5
• Enterprise owned • Either enterprise operation or 3rd party• Fixed price or time and materials services • Internal network • Dedicated assets • 3rd party owned and operated • Centralized, secure delivery center
• Fixed price, time and materials, or pay as you go • Internal network • Dedicated assets
• Mix of shared and dedicated
resources
• Shared facility and staff • Pay as you go • VPN access or public internet • Shared resources • Elastic scaling • Pay as you go • Public internet
Private
Public
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IBM Cloud Services Portfolio
Development and Test
– IBM Smart Business Test Cloud
– IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud
Information Workloads
– IBM Smart Analytics Cloud
– IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud
Desktop Workloads
– IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud
– IBM Smart Business End User Support - IBM Service Assist
Collaboration
– IBM LotusLive (BPM BlueWorks)
– IBM LotusLive iNotes
Infrastructure Services
– IBM Computing on Demand (CoD)™
Business Services
– Business Continuity and Resiliency Services (BCRS)
– BCRS Information Protection Services
Cloud Consulting Services
W hich clou d
offerings are
ap p licable to
A cadem ic
Initiativ e?
W hich offerings
p rov ide the best
op p ortu nity to
“im p rov e ou r
serv ice deliv ery ”
of softw are /
technology to
F acu lty ?
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IBM Academic Initiative
© 2010 IBM Corporation
The IBM Academic Initiative
Our mission
Partner with academic institutions to better educate millions of students
for a smarter planet and more competitive IT workforce
Our offerings
No-charge access to IBM technology
& tools (
thousands
of software titles)
No-charge access to course materials
and curriculum
(hundreds
of modules)
Skills enhancement supported by
a worldwide community of IBM volunteers
www.ibm.com/academicinitiative
A SMARTER PLANET
WILL BE INSTRUMENTED, INTERCONNECTED, INTELLIGENT
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Benefits and Offerings include….no-charge Software
IBM Software
Access to
thousands
of full-function,
leading-edge software applications available for faculty
to download at no charge.
Faculty can:
-
Make copies of the software for their students;
-
Install the software on lab machines their
students access; and
-
Make the software available on a private
network their students can access
Virtual Computing
-
SOA Sandbox
-
System Z Sandbox
-
Remote access to large and mid-range
systems
-
On-demand demos
-
Rational Developer Sandbox for System i
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Courseware Repository
IBM Courseware
More than 250 no-charge course modules
created by IBM to help clients get the
most from their IT investment. Faculty can
use them to enrich their students’
classroom experience.
Covering topics such as:
– Software Development Lifecycle
– Business Process Modeling and SOA
– Enterprise Systems
– Data Management
– Social Networking and Collaboration
– I/T Service Management/Monitoring
– Service Science
– ….and much more……
…hundreds of industry-leading courses, all at no charge
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Cloud Computing & The IBM Academic Skills Cloud
Cloud
Academic
Skills Cloud
C lo u d c o m p u tin g is a n e m e r g in g s ty le o f c o m p u tin g w h o s e fo u n d a tio n is th e
delivery of services
software
a n d
processing capacity
u s in g
private or public networks
C lo u d e n a b le s th e
dynamic availability of IT applications
a n d in f r a s tr u c tu r e , r e g a r d le s s o f lo c a tio n
IB M h a s a n n o u n c e d a n A c a d e m ic S k ills C lo u d p r o je c t to d y n a m ic a lly d e liv e r p r o v is io n e d v ir tu a l
s e r v e r im a g e s o f s o m e o f it’s le a d in g s o f tw a r e fo r u s e b y C o lle g e /U n iv e r s ity F a c u lty to m o r e e a s ily
te a c h IT r e la te d s k ills , v ia c lo u d c o m p u tin g s e r v ic e s .
T h e g o a l is to e x p e d ite th e s e r v ic e d e liv e r y o f s o ftw a r e u s e d to te a c h IT s k ills a t
c o lle g e s /u n iv e r s itie s th r o u g h a h ig h ly a u to m a te d , h ig h ly v ir tu a liz e d , v e r y d y n a m ic , a n d f le x ib le s e lf
s e r v ic e c lo u d e n v ir o n m e n t.
Value
IB M A c a d e m ic C lo u d , d e liv e r e d b y
IBM Development Test Cloud
d e liv e r s a b r o a d p o r tf o lio o f e a s y
to c o n s u m e , r e a l-tim e p r o v is io n in g a n d e n te r p r is e s o f tw a r e s e r v ic e s
R e d u c e s th e n e c e s s ity o f fa c u lty to c o n d u c t tr a d itio n a l a n d tim e c o n s u m in g s o f tw a r e d o w n lo a d ,
in s ta lla tio n , d e p lo y m e n t a n d c o n f ig u r a tio n r o u tin e s to le v e r a g e o u r s o f tw a r e f o r te a c h in g p u r p o s e s .
F a s te r d e p lo y m e n t o f IB M d e v e lo p m e n t to o ls f o r u s e in c la s s e s .
In c r e a s e s f a c u lty tim e f o c u s in g o n te a c h in g c o n te n t, le s s tim e o n lo g is tic s , a n d a d m in is tr a tio n .
P r o v id e s f a c u lty a n d s tu d e n ts p a r tic ip a tin g in c la s s e s p r e c o n f ig u r e d v ir tu a l s o f tw a r e im a g e s
e m b o d y in g b e s t p r a c tic e s .
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A c a d e m ic S k ills C lo u d
IBM Academic Initiative: Member Faculty Experience
Download software from Academic Initiative site
Identify available hardware for class use
Purchase, or secure lab hardware resources
Install
Configure
Deploy
Teach Using IBM Software
Un-install / Decommission With assistance from Academic Initiative Ambassador volunteer*
Traditional Academic Initiative
Member Faculty Experience
No
Yes
Identify software from Academic Initiative site
Provision Image on Cloud
Teach Using IBM Software
Close Image Instance
New Academic Initiative Member
Faculty Experience via Cloud
© 2010 IBM Corporation A c a d e m ic S k ills C lo u d
•
W e b /J 2 E E D e v e lo p m e n t
•
S o f tw a r e E n g in e e r in g
•
R e q u ir e m e n ts M a n a g e m e n t
•
S o f tw a r e A r c h ite c tu r e
•
D a ta b a s e M a n a g e m e n t
•
W e b In f r a s tr u c tu r e
•
Q u a lity M a n a g e m e n t
•
C o lla b o r a tiv e S o ftw a r e D e v e lo p m e n t
•
S o f tw a r e D e liv e r y A u to m a tio n
•R a tio n a l R e q u ir e m e n ts C o m p o s e r •R a tio n a l A s s e t M a n a g e r 7 .2 .0 .1 •R a tio n a l T e a m C o n c e r t •R a tio n a l In s ig h t •R a tio n a l B u ild F o r g e A g e n t•R a tio n a l A p p lic a tio n D e v e lo p e r
•R a tio n a l B u ild F o r g e •R a tio n a l A s s e t M a n a g e r •R a tio n a l Q u a lity M a n a g e r •R a tio n a l S o f tw a r e A r c h ite c t •W e b S p h e r e s M a s h •W e b S p h e r e A p p lic a tio n S e r v e r a n d R a tio n a l A g e n t C o n tr o lle r •W e b S p h e r e P o r ta l a n d W e b C o n te n t M a n a g e r •In fo r m ix D y n a m ic S e r v e r •D B 2 E x p r e s s -C V 9 .7 •ID S 1 1 .5 0 .x C 5 D E •L o tu s T u r b o F o r m s •S U S E L in u x •Im a g e L ib r a r y •S e lf P r o v is io n in g •P e r s o n a liz e d C o n tr o l P a n e l •C o m m u n ity F o r u m s •G e ttin g S ta r te d G u id e s •G e ttin g S ta r te d D e m o s
IBM Academic Skills Cloud
A self service cloud delivery model of key IBM
software for teaching purposes to build skills via
highly virtualized cloud environment.
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Getting Started with IBM Academic Initiative Cloud
REGISTER
Create Account
IBM Development Cloud
Watch Demonstration
1
REVIEW ASSET CATALOG
Identify Image(s) of interest
Identify Product
Review default topology
2
TEST
Add an Instance
Create Virtual Server
Provision Server
Access and Test
Getting Started Materials
Demo Video
Samples
Provide Feedback
3
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Thank you!
For more information, please visit:
ibm.com/cloud
Or, contact me:
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New Cloud Offering for Academic Initiative Members
IBM Academic Skills Cloud
– IBM has announced an Academic Skills Cloud project to dynamically deliver provisioned virtual server
images of some of it’s leading software for use by College/University Faculty to more easily teach IT
related skills via cloud computing services.
– Academic Skills Cloud is designed to augment and enhance software delivery capabilities. Unlike
traditional environments, member faculty will be able to log on to IBM Cloud and get
access to
customizable virtual machines in minutes.
– With this new pilot program, Academic Initiative is offering choices to deploy workloads that will assist
faculty in teaching with IBM software with greater efficiency, productivity and control to benefit students.
– This new environment provides compute and storage as a service, IBM Rational Software Delivery
Services, Rational, WebSphere and Information Management software to help speed the delivery of
software applications for teaching purposes.
Goal
– To expedite the delivery of key IBM software for teaching purposes via a highly automated, highly
virtualized, very dynamic, and flexible self service cloud environment.
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“Cloud” is a new consumption and delivery model inspired by
Internet services – a definition broadly accepted
High Quality User
Experience
Easy access to “best
in class” functions
Flexibility and choice
Lower costs
Enhanced security
and reliability
Rapidly Provisioned
Significantly
Improved Supply
Economics
Lower operating
costs via standards
and automation
Improved capital
efficiency
Rapid, flexible
services
enhancements
Enabling Technology
Open, standards-based
Common components and processes
Elastic scaling and fault recovery
Enabled by dynamic Infrastructure
Compute
Storage
Network
Cloud Services
Changes in
Consumption
Changes in
Delivery
User provisioned
Self service model
Tiered, flexible pricing
Standardized offerings
Virtualized and
automated
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Source: IBM Corporate Strategy analysis of IDC data 2008
To make progress, delivery organizations must address the server,
storage and network
operating cost
problem, not just CAPEX
A crisis of complexity – the need for progress is clear
Steady CAPEX spend
Global Annual Server Spending
(IDC)
Uncontrolled management
and energy costs
$0B
100
200
300
19
96
19
97
19
98
19
99
20
00
20
01
20
02
20
03
20
04
20
05
20
06
20
07
20
08
20
09
20
10
New system spend
Management and admin costs
Power and cooling costs
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By 2011, the world will be 10 times more instrumented then it was in
2006. Internet connected devices will leap from 500M to 1 Trillion.
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
1,400
1,600
1,800
E
xa
b
yt
e
s
RFID,
Digital TV,
MP3 players,
Digital cameras,
Camera phones, VoIP,
Medical imaging, Laptops,
smart meters, multi-player games,
Satellite images, GPS, ATMs, Scanners,
Sensors, Digital radio, DLP theaters, Telematics,
Peer-to-peer, Email, Instant messaging, Videoconferencing,
CAD/CAM, Toys, Industrial machines, Security systems, Appliances
10x
growth in
five years
Approximately 70% of the digital universe is created by individuals,
but enterprises are
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Scale
Unit
cost
Traditional
Infrastructure
Internal
Cloud
Service
Provider
Cloud
(cost)
Large enterprises can significantly reduce costs for
some workloads compared with traditional IT.
Standardization and optimization by
workload enables economies of scale
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IBM.com/cloud
IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud:
A c c e le r a te y o u r s o f tw a r e
a p p lic a tio n d e v e lo p m e n t a n d
te s t e f f o r ts w ith th is a f f o r d a b le
a lte r n a tiv e , f e a tu r in g IB M
S o f tw a r e D e liv e r y S e r v ic e s .
E lim in a te p r o v is io n in g d e la y s ,
im p r o v e s o ftw a r e u tiliz a tio n ,
a n d lo w e r d e p lo y m e n t c o s ts f o r
y o u r a p p lic a tio n s .
IB M S m a r t B u s in e s s
D e v e lo p m e n t a n d T e s t C lo u d :
N o w a v a ila b le fo r in s ta lla tio n
b e h in d y o u r c o r p o r a te f ir e w a ll.
R e a liz e c o s t s a v in g s a n d f a s te r
tim e to v a lu e in y o u r s e c u r e
c lo u d e n v ir o n m e n t.
IBM Smart Analytics Cloud:
D is c o v e r
r e a l-tim e b u s in e s s in s ig h ts . A c c e s s
a n d a n a ly z e m u lti-s o u r c e d a ta w ith
th is o n -s ite a n a ly tic s s o lu tio n f o r th e
e n te r p r is e .
IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud:
M a n a g e m a s s iv e in f o r m a tio n
d e m a n d s w h ile r e d u c in g c o s ts a n d
e n a b lin g e n te r p r is e -w id e f ile s h a r in g
a n d c o lla b o r a tio n .
IBM Information Archive:
A r c h iv e a ll
ty p e s o f in fo r m a tio n (e .g ., r e g u la to r y )
c o n tr o llin g IT c o s ts , m a n a g in g r is k
a n d im p r o v in g p r o d u c tiv ity .
IBM LotusLive
™ :
U n le a s h
e m p lo y e e p o te n tia l w ith w o r ld
-c la s s s o -c ia l n e tw o r k in g
s e r v ic e s a n d o n -lin e
c o lla b o r a tio n to o ls in c lu d in g
f ile s h a r in g , w e b c o n f e r e n c in g
a n d in s ta n t m e s s a g in g .
IBM LotusLive iNotes™ :
E n a b le th e e n tir e e n te r p r is e
w ith s e c u r e , c lo u d -b a s e d
s e r v ic e f o r e -m a il, s c h e d u lin g
a n d c o n ta c t m a n a g e m e n t.
IBM Smart Business Desktop
Cloud:
P r o v id e s a n y tim e ,
a n y w h e r e a c c e s s to
a p p lic a tio n s , in f o r m a tio n a n d
r e s o u r c e s . A r e s ilie n t a n d
s e c u r e d e s k to p e n v ir o n m e n t
b e h in d y o u r f ir e w a ll o r o n th e
IB M C lo u d .
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IBM Cloud Services Portfolio
Smart business on the IBM cloud
IBM Smart Business Services
IBM Smart Business Systems
Standardized services on the IBM cloud
Preintegrated, workload-optimized systems Private cloud services,
behind your firewall, built and/or managed by IBM
IBM Lotus Live IBM Lotus® iNotes® IBM CloudBurst ™ family IBM Smart Business Test Cloud IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud IBM Smart Business Storage Cloud
Analytics Collaboration Development and test Desktop and devices Infrastructure storage IBM Smart Analytics System Smart Business for Small or Midsize Business (backed by the IBM Cloud) Infrastructure compute IBM Computing on Demand IBM Information Protection Services Business services BPM BlueWorks (design tools) IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud IBM Smart Analytics Cloud Smart business expense reporting on the IBM cloud
IBM Information Archive Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud (beta)
Global Technology Services
Smart Business End User Support
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IBM Academic Skills Cloud Press Release &
Webcast
IBM Press Release
NEW YORK, NY - 10 Feb 2010
:
Today at a
conference in New York, IBM (NYSE:
IBM
)
announced it will make key parts of its
software portfolio available in a cloud
computing environment to more easily allow
professors around the world to incorporate
technology into their curricula.
Webcast Replay
Available
Contact the IBM Academic Initiative Team
with inquiries:
–
Academic Skills Cloud
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Great selection of software images with affinity to computer science
– Rational, WebSphere, Information Mgt, SUSE Linux
Automated Image/Instance Creation
Configuration
Community / Forums
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Image Descriptions
Image
Summary
Rational
Requirements
Composer
Requirements definition solution that provides easy-to-use elicitation and definition capabilities. It includes visual and collaborative tools that enable the capture and refinement of business needs into unambiguous requirements that drive improved quality, speed and alignment across the IT life cycle. The capabilities leverage the extensible architecture of the Jazz platform. It reduces risk by eliciting, organizing and connecting information that enables the definition, clarification and elaboration of business goals and objectives and the solution requirements into which they are translated.
Rational Asset
Manager
A collaborative software development asset management solution that gives organizations the ability to identify, manage, and govern the design, development, and consumption of services as part of an SOA initiative or other reusable development assets. It can be accessed from an easy-to-use Web client, as well as a Web services-enabled Eclipse client extending the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform portfolio. This makes it easier for globally distributed teams to collaborate on assets. It is a development asset management repository, and it uses the reusable asset specification to define, create, and modify assets. It delivers asset-type-specific search and governance capabilities, and measures asset reuse in development. It handles any kind of asset, including applications, components, patterns, software that runs systems and products, services, frameworks, templates, and so on.
Rational Team
Concert
Provides a collaborative software development environment that allows project teams to simplify, automate, and govern software delivery. Rational Team Concert integrates source control, work item, and build capabilities to improve
software quality and accelerate software delivery. Rational Team Concert supports the collaborative infrastructure of the Jazz Team Server.
Rational Insight
A performance measurement and management solution, helps you improve project and process performance. It delivers measurement best practices to help organizations reduce time to market, improve quality, and take greater control of software and systems development and delivery. It provides objective dashboards and measures for transparency and control into risks, status, and trends.Rational Build
Forge
provides a high-performance, reliable, repeatable, automation engine to streamline software delivery throughout the development lifecycle. It enhances rapid troubleshooting and error resolution capabilities to increase quality and reduce time to market. It also gives developers controlled, self-service access to production build processes from within their integrated development environment.
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Image Descriptions
Image
Summary
Rational
Application
Developer
A comprehensive integrated development environment, with full support for the J2EE programming model including Web, Java, Web services and EJB development that accelerates application development. With integrated Portal development, UML visual editing, code analysis, and automated test and deployment tools, Application Developer includes everything developers need to be productive and to help ensure their code is well designed, scalable and ready for production. Built-in version control and team tools enable developers working on complex projects or within large teams to coordinate
versioning and to protect team assets. It is optimized for WebSphere software and provides capabilities for development on other technology platforms. Rational software helps organizations become more responsive, resilient, and focused by improving their software development capability.
Rational Quality
Manager
Includes the first centralized test management offerings on the Jazz Technology Platform and is a collaborative, role-based business-driven software quality environment. It is designed for test planning, workflow control, tracking and metrics reporting that is capable of quantifying how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives and outcomes.
Rational Software
Architect for
WebSphere
An integrated design and development tool that leverages UML based model-driven development for creating well-architected applications and services. With it, you can unify all aspects of IT software design and development to develop applications more productively, exploit the latest in modeling language technology, review and control the structure of Java applications, leverage an open and extensible modeling platform, deliver applications for WebSphere Application Servers and WebSphere Portal Servers, simplify design and development tool solution and integrate with other facets of the lifecycle.
DB2 Express
Is the ideal entry level data server. Suitable for transaction processing or complex query workloads on servers with up to four processors. It includes all core DB2 capabilities, installs quickly and easily, automates administration, keeps data protected and available 24/7, cuts costs with unique workload management capabilities, and powers the next generation of agile SOA applications with pureXML.© 2010 IBM Corporation
Image Descriptions
Image
Summary
Informix Dynamic
Server Developer
Edition
Delivers legendary reliability and blazing fast Online Transaction Processing, and reduces the total
cost of ownership. It delivers new features that address the needs of today's mission critical business with near 24 x 7 x 365 global
availability and scalability, delivering continuous business information across the worldwide enterprise. At the same time, it helps
meet the challenges of optimizing IT investment and lowering cost of maintaining databases with nearly invisible administration. This
product includes features that speed application development, increase performance, and improve data security. IDS provides a
secure, resilient, and agile information management system for valuable information assets
