Archive - Oct 2011

Date

October 21st

Informix Warehouse Accelerator: Redirecting Messages (1)

 

October 20th

kmurthy's picture

Free prize from Intel Inside at IBM IOD.

IBM Informix group (as well as many other groups within IBM) have been collaborating with Intel to create and improve products.
I wrote earlier about the benchmark we did earlier with Nehalem and Westmere. Recently, Intel gave us a machine with 8 socket Nehalem (64 cores) and 2TB RAM.... It's been a great to do some performance measurements on this.. More on this as we progress.
 

October 15th

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Informix Chat with the Lab - Century Financials Software – “The Advantage For Informix Customers”

Title: Latest Informix Performance Features
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Central Time), 17:30h Germany
Presented By: Sanjay Menon, Director of Business Development (Century Software), Mark Rees, Chief Technology Officer (Century Software)
Registration: Century Financials Software – The Advantage For Informix Customers

Description:

 

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Informix Newsletter Oktober 2011

(german content)

Neue Ausgabe des IBM/Informix Newsletters

Im Newsletter-Archiv befindet sich die neueste Ausgabe des INFORMIX-Newsletters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ausgabe:

 

October 13th

October 10th

kmurthy's picture

Comparison of Oracle Exalytics with Informix Warehouse accelerator

2011 seems to be the year of in-memory analytics. Informix warehouse accelerator was released in March 2011, SAP HANA in June 2011, and now Oracle Exalytics.  So, the competition is expected to heat up with additional offerings.

 
Last week, Oracle announced their in-memory appliance, Exalytics.  
Naturally, many question on its features, performance, pricing abound. This quick comparison is based on public information Oracle has released.

 

October 7th

kmurthy's picture

Informix warehouse accelerator performance on Intel Nehalem and Intel Westmere processors

Earlier this year, we collaborated with Intel measure performance and scaling of IWA on Intel's latest processors: Nehalem and Westmere. The detailed report was published as article in IBM Data Management Magaine.Apart from the details of the technology, the core message is,  IWA exploits the latest features like SIMD, larger on-chip cache in Intel processors.