Future-proof your data environment

The Future of Data Management

In an increasingly interconnected world, organizations need a simpler, more holistic approach to manage the volume, variety and velocity of data that flow through every business channel. In addition to traditional relational systems, you need a flexible, scalable platform that can accommodate the future with ease.

IBM DB2 gives you the reliability, extreme performance and consistency of a relational environment with the rapid development, deployment and agility of a NoSQL environment. Furthermore, DB2 is equipped with next-generation administration, performance and migration capabilities.

Simple to implement and manage, IBM DB2 enables you to streamline your critical processes and leverage analytics and data management to enable better decision-making and push innovation across the organization.

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Cost-Efficient Database

Organizations can rely on the simplified, yet powerful capabilities of IBM DB2 to increase operational efficiencies across the organization. With a fully optimized IT infrastructure, DB2 delivers cost-saving benefits, including high overall performance4 with decreased energy consumption and increased staff productivity.

  • Unparalleled automation reduces administrative costs
  • Multi-temperature data management and other workload-balancing techniques help maximize efficient use of storage resources and ensure critical business requests are processed before less urgent matters
  • Few to no code changes for Oracle database applications mean reduced risk and cost of database migration
  • Expert-integrated systems like PureDataTM System for Transactions,
    which include DB2, help optimize IT economics

We've saved more than a million dollars over the past four years by migrating to DB2.

Tom DeJuneas, IT Team Manager,
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC)

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Adaptive compression has provided 7x or greater overall space savings for more than one client, with some tables achieving 10x space savings3

Adaptive compression

We switched from Oracle Database to IBM DB2 and cut our data management costs in half, while improving performance and reliability of business applications.

Sandro Reátegui, Systems Architect,
Banco de Crédito del Peru

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DB2 on Power delivers up to 3x the performance per core
of Oracle Database
on SPARC 2

Costs for power and cooling, hardware maintenance, software licensing and support will all be reduced.

We have estimated a five-year cumulative run rate reduction of about $8MM with the server consolidation and virtualization project.

Leroy Hill, Manager of Midrange Engineering, Fiserv

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People-Efficient Database

Because people are the second part of the IT cost equation, IBM DB2 helps organizations make the most of their IT staff. DB2 is easy to maintain and equipped with well-integrated tools that require fewer people to manage and operate, while intelligent administration features enable your teams to apply their skill sets to high-value initiatives that drive innovation within your organization.

  • Automatically perform memory tuning and optimization for faster processing
  • High availability and disaster recovery features provide business continuity while drastically reducing unplanned downtime
  • Self-tuning and self-healing capabilities resolve common database issues with no staff intervention
  • An average of 98% compatibility with Oracle PL/SQL enables staff to leverage existing skills and shorten time to productivity 5

Improve data quality for exceptional business accuracy & compliance.

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DB2 on the cloud is ready when you are.

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Take the easy path to improve performance and lower database costs.

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Is your database ready for your company's future?

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The introduction of the Time Travel Query feature greatly simplifies the development & maintenance of time-aware application code, resulting in up to nine times coding cost savings.

Pradeep Naik, Wipro Technologies

DB2 provides the scalability, stability & processing capabilities we need by migrating to DB2.

Nitin D., Senior Director, Engineering, Subex Limited

Innovation Driving Efficiency

Accelerate IT innovation with reliability to drive higher performance in your organization. DB2 is integrated with technologies that help streamline operations and drive efficiencies and flexibilities across the organization. With industry-leading compression technologies, clustering technology with DB2 pureScale® and Time Travel Query, IBM can help increase productivity and optimize your existing resources — helping you work smarter.

  • Data compression reduces disk space and storage infrastructure requirements while improving overall system performance with fewer
    I/O workloads
  • IBM DB2 pureScale delivers high availability and exceptional scalability transparent to applications
  • Time Travel Query and time-aware tables enable easy analysis of historical trends and predict future demands

With the help of IBM, our SAP suite can now support approximately 4,000 concurrent users, and the whole user base amounts to over 10,000 individual accounts accessing some 22 TB of data.

Our IT infrastructure is fully integrated across our business.

José Evaristo, IT-Operations Manager, Votorantim Grou

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DB2 on Power delivers up to 3x the performance per core
of Oracle Database
on SPARC2

Make your IT infrastructure smarter with IBM DB2 pureScale®.

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Deliver cost-effective business continuity with extreme capacity.

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We switched from Oracle Database to IBM DB2 and cut our data management costs in half, while improving performance and reliability of business applications.

Sandro Reátegui, Systems Architect,
Banco de Crédito del Peru

Build a strong foundation for a dynamic, data-intensive infrastructure.

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DB2 provides the scalability, stability & processing capabilities we need by migrating to DB2.

Nitin D., Senior Director, Engineering, Subex Limited