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Timely, trusted information is the currency of success at all levels of business. But increasing data volumes are making it more difficult to deliver that information. And as data volumes go up, so do the costs of data management. For more than a decade, IBM and Intel have collaborated to optimize enterprise solutions: Complete, cost-effective, performance-optimized stacks of IBM® Information Management software running on servers powered by Intel® processors. Our relentless pursuit of performance has led to some impressive results. Compared to what customers could purchase just over a decade ago, they can now benefit from over 600 times the transaction performance from IBM DB2® on Intel-based servers at nearly 99 percent less cost per transaction.
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Customer Testimonials
"Wherescape was founded about 11 years ago in 1998 entirely for the purpose of helping customers expedite the process of creating, building, and managing their data warehouses."
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Mark Budzinski
VP & GM
WhereScape USA, Inc.
Data Warehousing
"We had a customer last year who purchased a bigger server for their data warehouse because they needed more bandwidth for daily processing and couldn’t put it into their datacenter because it wouldn’t physically fit into the room."
Jason Laws
Chief Architect
WhereScape Inc.
"They say the most expensive server you’re gonna purchase is the one that causes you to build your next datacenter. A lot of people are looking to take their existing datacenter foot print, try and cost reduce it as much as possible."
Shannon Poulin
Director, Xeon Platform Marketing
Intel Corp.
Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
The way that you do that is you put in these new Xeon 5500 series servers that consume lower energy.
Energy Savings
or the same energy as the ones they were replacing but deliver more performance.
Intelligent Performance
"The intelligent performance of the chips saves energy by turning off processors when they’re not being used. Power isn’t being used unnecessarily to run processors that are doing nothing."
Jason Laws
Intel-IBM Relationship
"We have a long history of working together of creating unique innovation where we can get the best of DB2 working together with the best of Intel. We have delivered a whole new level of innovation with DB2 9.7 on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series."
Berni Schiefer
Distinguished Engineer
IBM, Inc.
"The Xeon 5500 series, that provides almost 80% better performance over the previous generation of processors –producing outstanding results, lowering the cost of operation for our clients."
Sal Vella
VP Development DB2
IBM, Inc.
"And we’ve been able to do that at nearly a 50% improvement in performance per watt."
Shannon Poulin
"We’ve shown not only that you can achieve superb performance results by combining the DB2 product with the Intel processor but we were able to do that with an absolute minimum amount of tuning."
Berni Schiefer
"We have a self-tuning memory manager that looks at the system memory and says, where should I allocate it for best performance depending on the kind of workload? So terrific technology automating things that normally the database administrator would have to do themselves."
Sal Vella
Solution Migration
"This migration is actually pretty easy. We have a partner in China called NewSoft. The sizing to build the solution was 25-person years which is pretty significant. We did it over a weekend with one guy. That is how easy it is to get to DB2 9.7."
Boris Bialek
Program Director, Data Management Solutions
IBM, Inc.
Compression Technologies
"We are industry leading in terms of our compression technologies and capabilities. In DB2 9.7 we’ve really extended that to a whole new level. The rule of thumb for a data warehouse is that a third of the size of the database is in your data tables; another third is in your indexes; another third is in temp space. So in 9.7 we’ve addressed the other two-thirds, really, of that triangle. We’ve introduced compression for indexes and compression for temporary tables and have gotten fantastic results."
Richard Hedges
Dir. of New Development – DB2
IBM, Inc.
"And when we did some tests with compression we found the new DB2 9.7 and the new Xeon 5500 series processors were a lot faster during compression on large tables."
Jason Laws
Increased Performance
Every test we did was faster. In fact some of the tests they ran twice as fast.
"It’s a huge cost savings for our clients, in many cases resulting in millions of dollars of savings."
Sal Vella
Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
IBM DB2® 9.7
Energy Savings
Intelligent Performance
Compression Technologies
Ease of Use
"And when you really consider what’s going on now with Intel’s intelligent performance, you consider that with what IBM is up to with 9.7 DB2, goodness, this is not business as usual. This is really game changing technology. That when appropriately applied you can get the performance gains that are truly remarkable but do it in such a way that you are managing your power requirements and your other costs as well. "
Mark Budzinski
