Automate small footprint,
embedded Informix Server deployments

Sreeni Paidi
Advisory Software Engineer IBM

Overview:

This tutorial shows you how to automate IBM® Informix® Dynamic Server (IDS) small footprint deployments by using the IDS deployment utility and the IDS embeddability toolkit. An important requirement of an embedded database system is that it be invisible to end users and administrators.

IDS is a perfect database system for application environments that require an embedded database because you can install, deploy, and administer the database silently. It is transparent to users that there is a robust and reliable database system catering to the database requirements of the application.

IBM RedBook 
Embedding IBM Informix

Abstract:

In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we discuss and describe the capabilities for embedding Informix® into applications and software. We introduce the technological architecture and describe several of the functions and features that support Informix as a robust and powerful embeddable DBMS. Many of these features are unique in the industry today, enabling clients to create a business advantage.

The Informix database server can support the requirements of an embeddable DBMS, and is doing so for many companies today. The low administration requirements of the Informix database server enable clients to deploy thousands of Informix instances, embedded in applications in locations where there are no technical resources to support the database. The real requirement is for applications with embedded databases that require little or no administration, take minimum storage resources, have excellent performance, and are highly reliable.

Cisco and IBM Informix Database Software
Enhancing Collaboration

Cisco chose to embed IBM Informix® database
software in their solutions because of the robust
embeddability, high reliability, and extreme
performance of Informix.

This white paper addresses a number of the features and techniques Cisco uses to embed Informix in its solutions, and why.
It also highlights some of Informix’s newer features. The white paper is divided into six sections, each corresponding to the different tasks involved in the embedding process.

Informix Enterprise Data Management
for the Internet-of-Things

Informix Chat with the Lab Webinar

The amount of technical devices which share data through a network rises explosively. Gartner predicts for the year 2020 30 billion connected devices. The different ways with which they communicate with each other will automatize our every-day-life further - accompanied by a flood of permanently new produced data that has to be hold in readiness.

The Informix Chat with the Lab Webinar of the 25.03.2014 deals in excellent manner with this topic. So we decided to make a part of the presentation accessible to you on our site.

Take a look into the basics of the Internet-of-Things (IoT). Experience which changes for companies - but also in the private environment - will appear through the proceeding automating and why Informix the predestined data base for IoT is.

To this topic two videos have been uploaded recently to the IBM Informix Channel to which we hint here: (YouTube IBM Informix Channel - Internet-of-Things with IBM Informix)
The Chat with the Lab recordings are published regularly by the IBM in the Developer Works Wiki. There you can access further presentations (Chat wih the Lab).