IBM has announced new versions of DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse software. Code-named "Cobra", the new version of DB2 introduced reduces an even greater amount of space needed to store data, helping clients save up to 75 per cent on related energy costs -- more than any other available database software, IBM claims reports efytimes.
The new software includes workload management and autonomic computing features that improve the performance of key applications such as closing quarterly financial reports and helping IT staff more efficiently manage their growing data, leading to a time savings of up to 35 per cent. This savings enables companies to refocus highly skilled employee time on driving better business results rather than on administrative and performance tuning tasks.
According to IBM, new innovations in the new version of IBM's database software will help clients combat these issues by gaining greater insight from valuable XML data used in high performance transactions -- an industry first. The software will also help companies better utilise hardware, improve administration efficiency, easily run applications written from other database software and generate new intelligence
To enable companies to cost effectively analyse more of their valuable information and make smarter decision faster, DB2 9.7 adds XML warehousing support to the transactional performance of DB2 pureXML
DB2 9.7 and InfoSphere Warehouse 9.7 will be available in June. Customers, developers and partners can test drive DB2 9.7 by taking advantage of IBM's Early Access Program.
