Data Management category

IBM Cloud Databases: Hosting model changes and predictable performance 

4 min read - The IBM Cloud® Databases team focuses on providing hassle-free availability, reliability and security. In accordance with these values, we are making improvements to our hosting model to align with industry practices and improve the predictability of performance for our clients. This will apply to all IBM Cloud Database instances.  Those familiar with our databases know that when provisioning, users can select between a database with dedicated cores allocated to their instance, or a database placed on a multi-tenant machine, where…

Six new Db2 capabilities DBAs must try today with Db2 11.5.9

2 min read - In late 2023, IBM® introduced Db2®  version 11.5.9, a significant update packed with new features and improvements to enhance your database management experience. From expanded table maintenance capabilities to simplified disaster recovery setups to streamlined watsonx.data™ integration, this release aims to empower database administrators (DBAs) with greater efficiency and flexibility. Let's take a closer look at these top new capabilities brought by Db2 11.5.9 and how they can benefit your database operations.  1.     Automatic table maintenance (ATM) extension beyond base tables   ATM users can…

IBM watsonx.data’s integrated vector database: unify, prepare, and deliver your data for AI 

2 min read - We’re excited to announce that IBM® watsonx.data™ has recently launched an integrated vector database, based on the open source Milvus, in the data lakehouse. Now, IBM watsonx™ customers can unify, curate and prepare vectorized embeddings for their generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications at scale across their trusted, governed data. This enhances the relevance and precision of their AI workloads, including chatbots, personalized recommendation systems and image similarity search applications.  There is no AI without data  The emergence of gen…

Top 20 most-asked questions about Amazon RDS for Db2 answered

5 min read - The new Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 offering allows customers to migrate their existing, self-managed Db2 databases to the cloud and accelerate strategic modernization initiatives. In our recent webcast, IBM, AWS, customers and partners came together for an interactive session. In this session:    IBM and AWS discussed the benefits and features of this new fully managed offering spanning availability, security, backups, migration and more.  AWS ran a live demo to show how to get started in just a…

Failed to load data

IBM Newsletters

Get our newsletters and topic updates that deliver the latest thought leadership and insights on emerging trends.
Subscribe now More newsletters