Using IBM Informix on the Cloud

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IBM Informix on Cloud
26 Sep 2016

© 2016 IBM Corporation2
Agenda
Chetan Chaturvedi - (chetan.chaturvedi@uk.ibm.com)
 Market Trends
 Business Requirements
 How does IBM Informix on Cloud fit into existing IT investments?
Nicholas Geib - (njgeib@us.ibm.com)
 Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud
 What is IBM Informix on Cloud
 Using IBM Informix on Cloud

Cloud is the future
IBM Ranked #1 in Hybrid Cloud
> 80% of enterprise IT
orgs will commit to
hybrid cloud by 2017
(IDC)
70% of IT decision
makers say they will
always have a blend of
Traditional IT and Cloud
(IBM Center for Applied
Insights Survey, 2016)
Hybrid Cloud now
makes up ~65% of
the total Cloud
Opportunity and is
growing at 33%
CAGR through
2018
In January 2016, IBM was ranked #1 in Hybrid and positioned as a leader
Hybrid Cloud Management Solutions (Synergy Group Research and
Forrester, respectively)
The hybrid cloud
market is estimated
to grow from USD
33.28 Billion in
2016 to USD 91.74
Billion by 2021
(According to
Marketsandmarkets
research firm )

Cloud Agility Accelerates Innovation
Outthink The Economics
Development
Infrastructure
Public Cloud
Hosted Private
Cloud
Dedicated
Environment
• Simplified development process
• Portable and collaborative
• Reimagine your business
• Application development for apps with mission critical
data
• Business process automation, secured
More
Productivity
Greater
Flexibility
Better
Economics
Continuous
Innovation
Risk
Mitigation
Hybrid Cloud End Game for Most
Enterprises
• Business process applications stay intact
• Managed / new applications on the cloud
• Ubiquitous data management software

Business Requirement
How can I reduce my ongoing
business cost?
How can I analyze the data in IoT
and in the edge?
How do I reduce time to market?
Desired outcome
 Informix on Cloud is aimed for enterprise who are wanting to
innovate to save costs by choosing a cloud deployment for their
workloads but do not want to compromise on enterprise level
security and performance, and need a robust and proven
technology choice.
• IT infrastructure platform cost is
the biggest recurring cost for
enterprises
• On-prem RDBMs represents one
of the most expensive recurring
expenses for enterprise IT
organizations.
• It is necessary to innovate and to
be able to innovate you look at
different deployment options ie
cloud

• IBM Informix on cloud offers the rich enterprise performance available
in the cloud (without the cost, complexity and risk of managing your
own infrastructure)
• Informix on Cloud brings Infrastructure as a service economics to data
infrastructure, while preserving control, performance, security, and
availability expectations needed to run enterprise businesses
How IBM Informix on Cloud can help

Nicholas Geib
njgeib@us.ibm.com

 As a CTO, I need to be able to quickly and inexpensively add additional development and test
instances of Informix to support our product development and release goals.
 As a software engineer, I need another large instance of an Informix database for stress testing our
new application. None of our current test environments are large enough to effectively test this
application.
 As a manager, I want my team to try the latest version of Informix without impacting any of my
current systems and without going through a long budget approval process.
 As a developer, I want to try out new features in Informix like NoSQL and the REST API, but I
currently don’t have access to a version with these features.
 As a DBA, I want to experiment with Informix’s clustering, replication, and sharding technologies to
see how they might help my business.
Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud

What is IBM Informix on Cloud
The latest Informix server
on a machine in a SoftLayer data center,
fulfilled quickly,
billed monthly,
accessible on the Internet,
dedicated to you,
entirely in your control.

Sizes
 Price/month: $1,250 $2,200 $4,000 $8,000

Decisions & Responsibilities
 What decisions do I need to make?
 the size
 the DataCenter, e.g Dallas, London, Sydney
 how many machines
 requested delivery date
 You don’t get a choice about the version of Informix, OS, etc.
 What is IBM responsible for?
Fulfilling the order; IBM provides you with an account on Bluemix if necessary, obtains the machine from
SoftLayer, installs and configures Informix, and makes the machine accessible to you.
 What am I, IBM’s customer, responsible for?
Any and all administration of the OS, network, database, etc.
Installing, configuring, and/or running applications, creating a schema, etc.
You have complete control over and flexibility to use the system to serve your business.

Upon receiving the machine: access documentation on Bluemix

Upon receiving the machine: Log in for the first time
 When logging into the machine for the first time, you will immediately be required to change your
password.
 You’re the only one that knows the password now. You have complete control over the system.
IBM does not log in.
$ ssh root@1.2.3.456
root@1.2.3.456's password:
You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)
Changing password for root.
(current) UNIX password:
New password:
Retype new password:
[root@myinformixhost ~]#

Ongoing use of the machine: administration
 You have full power and responsibility to administer the machine.
 Administer the machine just like you do machines in your current data center/office. This includes:
 Applying patching to the OS
 Backing up the machine and the Informix server
 Installing and/or updating any software
 Configuring the firewall
 Managing OS accounts
 Upgrading Informix
 Transferring data to/from the system
 Configuring clients to connect to Informix
 Changing ONCONFIG settings, adding db/sbspaces, etc.

Initial Configuration of Machine
 We’ve made some decisions about the initial configuration of the OS, Informix, etc. This is your
machine, so change whatever you like to fit the needs of your business.
 Informix version: 12.10.FC7W2AEE
We plan to fulfill orders using the latest available Informix release. So at some point new orders will be
fulfilled using 12.10.FC8.
 OS: CentOS 7 (currently 7.2.1511)
 File system:
 / for os
 /data for dbspaces, logs, etc.
 OS accounts:
 root, only customer knows password
 informix, initially configured without a password

Initial Configuration of Machine
 Product locations
 $INFORMIXDIR /home/Informix/server
 WL /opt/ibm/wire_listener
 IWA /opt/ibm/iwa Only .tar; not configured
 Firewall à la iptables allows traffic:
 SSH (22)
 SQLI over SSL (9089)
 DRDA over SSL (9091)
 Mongo over SSL (27018)
 REST over SSL aka HTTPS (443)
 Informix and Wire Listener configured with a self-signed certificate
 Informix also listens for non-SSL traffic:
 SQLI (9088)
 DRDA (9090)
 Mongo (27017)
 REST, aka HTTP (80)

Configuring Remote Client Connectivity
 All traffic goes over the internet
 Highly recommend that all traffic be encrypted
 Documentation for using SSL with SQLI, DRDA, Mongo, and REST at Bluemix

All the Good Stuff We Love About Informix
 SQL-processing speed machine
 Low administration
 Full spectrum of replication solutions
 Cluster with three secondary types
 Enterprise Replication
 TimeSeries for efficient storage and querying
 Accelerate queries with in-memory, columnar IWA
 REST API
 NoSQL functionality that developers love
 JSON data
 MongoDB client compatibility
 Embeddable, even on ARM and Intel/Quark

Getting help
 View documentation on Bluemix – coming soon!
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/InformixOnCloud/InformixOnCloud.html
 Use the forums
 Stack Overflow – tags “informixoncloud” and “bluemix”
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=informixoncloud+bluemix
 IBM developerWorks dW Answers – tags “informixoncloud” and “bluemix”
https://developer.ibm.com/answers/smartspace/bluemix/
 Open a Bluemix ticket

Getting help
 Have a problem with Informix (e.g. AF)?
Have a problem with physical infrastructure (e.g. disk, memory, network)?
Open a Bluemix ticket
 Different than opening a PMR, if you are
familiar with that process
 SLAs
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/sla/bm-6605-08

 As a CTO, I need to deploy our solution in a distant geography we’ve never done business in
before.
 As a project manager, I need to have an Informix database environment that both my developers
and individual beta customers can easily access. My developers are creating a Proof of Concept
and my customer will access it.
 As a DBA, I need to have an offsite copy of our Informix database for the purpose of disaster
recovery.
 As an architect, I want to prototype Informix Warehouse Accelerator with my application as my
customers are asking for performance improvements on various queries in our application. With
our Workgroup Edition, I don’t have access to IWA.
Why consider IBM Informix on Cloud continued

Want something more? Something different?
Do you want something else from this IBM offering?
Please give us your feedback!
For example:
 Can I order a multi-machine cluster?
 Can IBM help me transfer data to and from the machine using e.g. Aspera?
 I’d like IBM to be responsible for backing up the Informix server.
 I wish this would integrate with technology xyz.
 I’d like faster fulfillment.

Learn more
Coming soon!
 Documentation in the Bluemix catalog
https://console.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/InformixOnCloud/InformixOnCloud.html
 Videos
http://ibm.biz/Informix-learning
 Karen Qualley kqualley@us.ibm.com
General Questions?
 Coming soon! Through Bluemix @ www.bluemix.net
 Contact your Americas Call Centers (800-426-2255), local IBM representative, or your IBM
Business Partner. To identify your representative or partner call 800-426-7968.
 Steve Shoaf shoafs@us.ibm.com
Order today

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