CopperEye Announces Availability of its New Datablade, Offering Major Performance Improvements for IBM's Informix Customers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2004 CopperEye solution enhances database performance by delivering speeds up to 10 times faster than possible today CopperEye today announced the general availability of the CopperEye Datablade for Informix, delivering significantly enhanced database performance for Informix customers. Developed jointly with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , the CopperEye Datablade incorporates CopperEye's proprietary data indexing technology that obliterates long-standing data indexing limitations to achieving superior database performance. Joint benchmarks conducted with IBM have established the enhanced performance in a laboratory environment, and beta customer implementations have confirmed the results in real-world operations. "The CopperEye Datablade represents an innovative solution for Informix customers to significantly enhance the performance and value of their IBM solutions," says Barbara Stanley, business executive for IBM DB2 Information Management Software. "As the first commercially available new Datablade since IBM's acquisition of Informix, we are particularly excited to see this level of innovation by an IBM partner." The new Datablade -- which has now gone through Beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the with IBM customers -- dramatically improves overall database performance through CopperEye's revolutionary indexing technology, providing increased availability of information at speeds unprecedented in the marketplace today. Joint benchmark tests with IBM have shown over a 10-fold improvement in transactional performance. "Some of the world's largest corporations rely on IBM's Informix platform to run their businesses, and the CopperEye Datablade is an exciting product that can potentially help many of them handle the growing volume of data generated by business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets ," said Stuart Litel Stuart Litel (1961-) is the founder of the New England Informix User Group (NEIUG) and has been an active member of the International Informix Users Group (IIUG), which he joined in 1997. He is now the president of IIUG [1]. , president of the International Informix User Group. "CopperEye indexing is a unique innovation that strikes at the heart of database performance for high volume environments and the CopperEye Datablade is an attractive solution for the Informix community." The Datablade has recently been tested successfully with Oninit, an IBM reseller. During the tests they achieved dramatic improvements in database operations and can testify to "experiencing clearly superior maintenance performance of over four times faster when compared to the standard options," said Paul Watson
Paul Watson (born December 2, 1950) is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and is a significant, albeit controversial, figure in the environmental , technical director at Oninit. Duncan Pauly, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of CopperEye said, "Indexing is at the core of many areas of database performance and CopperEye's proprietary indexing technology is the key innovation driving the performance improvements made possible with the CopperEye Datablade. While it offers superior performance in virtually all situations, the CopperEye Datablade truly excels in the most demanding high transaction environments with databases containing millions to hundreds of millions of rows." The CopperEye Datablade leverages the power of the Informix architecture to seamlessly replace standard Informix indexing with CopperEye's own indexing capability, delivering greatly improved performance without requiring any other system modifications. Benchmark tests conducted jointly with IBM during the development of the Datablade demonstrated a consistent, dramatic improvement in data load performance in multiple fragment, high concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking scenarios, with comparable query performance even at relatively low volumes. The CopperEye Datablade is immediately available in Europe and will be available in the U.S. later in the year. The CopperEye Datablade runs on Informix v9.3 and up, and supports all major tier one platforms including AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , and Solaris. Pricing will vary by customer environment, but typically ranges from GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 30k -- GBP 360k. About CopperEye CopperEye Ltd provides software solutions that manage high-performance data stores suited to high-transaction volume business environments. The solutions eliminate the traditional trade-off between real-time operational performance and powerful analytics. CopperEye's underlying technology is a new, patented indexing approach that delivers a quantum leap quantum leap n. An abrupt change or step, especially in method, information, or knowledge: "War was going to take a quantum leap; it would never be the same" Garry Wills. in performance over traditional indexing alternatives. This technology is available as part of the CopperEye Software Development Kit and The CopperEye Datablade for IDS. CopperEye has offices in Bath, UK, and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , US. For further information, please visit www.coppereye.com. CopperEye is a registered trademark of CopperEye Ltd. All other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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