The Facts
Why IBM DB2 is simply better at data management:
- DB2 on Power Systems performs better across multiple workloads and platforms, lowering software license, support, and maintenance cost
- DB2 performs many data management tasks itself using autonomics features like self tuning memory manager (STMM), health monitoring and automatic maintenance, which frees up DBAs to work on higher value tasks
- DB2 compresses your data by as much as 80 percent, which could drastically reduce your storage costs, not to mention floor space, racks, cables, and power consumption
- DB2 pureScale™ is a cluster-based, shared-disk architecture that offers easy scalability and high availability to lower your infrastructure costs
- DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition offers an industry-leading database and rich administration and development tools - all at a low cost of entry.
How DB2 helps rationalise administration costs
- Often, administration costs are the single biggest component of overall IT budgets. Even a small reduction in administration costs can result in huge savings. DB2 can help deliver significant savings on administration costs by monitoring and optimising itself for greater performance without human intervention
- DB2 is self-optimising, self healing and self-configuring. It automatically reacts to changes in workloads by adjusting system resources dynamically. DB2 also automatically resolves a wide range of problems as they arise, and sometimes even before they arise.
IBM also offers other solutions to optimise your investment through better utilisation and integration, including:
- PowerVM, the industrial-strength virtualisation solution from IBM significantly reduces the complexity of systems administration and automate standard processes
- DB2 and WebSphere have a range of deployment options including the cloud, thus allowing clients to further reduce capital expenditure on IT infrastructure.
"We’re able to save on our administration costs, thus saving BJC Healthcare money on the bottom line, and the ongoing administration costs in the future." – Tom Holdener, BJC Healthcare.
How DB2 gives you reduced storage costs
Have you had to make the tradeoff between lower storage costs and better performance?
With DB2 you don’t have to choose. Unique DB2 compression algorithms have helped some customers lower their storage needs by more than 80 percent, while improving performance.
- All storage savings on production databases are doubled when you consider that backups and disaster recovery mirrors can also be compressed. This further reduces the time for backup and recovery operations.
- Many users have seen performance improvements thanks to the improved I/O performance and more efficient memory utilisation, thereby delaying hardware upgrades.
- Compressing data not only reduces data storage needs, it can also help reduce storage-related energy and infrastructure costs, impacting your environmental footprint.
“By choosing to implement DB2 compression right away, we have reduced the database size by around 40 per cent. This gives us faster backup and reduced storage costs, and makes the SAP technical upgrades easier and quicker.” - Andrew Juarez, SAP Lead Basis, CCBCC.
How you can retain your existing servers and still gain performance and cost saving improvements
Server costs are directly linked to database performance. When IBM database and middleware software outperform the competition, it means that you can typically run the software on less expensive servers and still enjoy better performance, thus deferring or eliminating new server purchases altogether.
- DB2 leads several key industry performance benchmarks on per core metrics. DB2 has significantly more days of leadership than all other vendors combined
- An ongoing Solitaire Interglobal study, covering more than 4,100 production systems, found that DB2 maintained a 15 - 37% performance advantage over Oracle
- DB2 has sophisticated workload management capabilities that help you optimise performance
- DB2 supports a number of virtualisation and cloud computing options.
"Our clients can take advantage of both the latest SAP capabilities and DB2 enhancements to further lower operational costs - such as storage and server expenses - using the latest DB2 9.7 data compression and performance management capabilities." - Mike Ellis, VP, SAP.
Move to DB2 today and enjoy these benefits, together with IBM’s strong tradition of reliability, resiliency, and availability.
Call Avnet today to speak to an advisor: + 44 (0)113 251 3051
Email: ibm-enquiries-uk@avnet.com
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