IBM announced strong client and business partner support for the new version of its DB2 database software, now generally available. The new software—which represents the work of hundreds of IBM developers and researchers in labs around the world—adds innovative technology called BLU Acceleration that makes it simpler, more economical and faster to analyze the massive amounts of data generated by computers, mobile devices, sensors and social networks. The new IBM DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration aims for analytics at the speed of thought with a range of made-in-IBM-Labs advances to significantly speed analytic workloads for databases and data warehouses.
“I was quite anxious when I installed DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration on my Linux Intel server, which really does not have a large amount of RAM, nor does it have the latest processors,” noted Iqbal Goralwalla, head of DB2 Managed Services at Triton Consulting of Norwich, UK. “The results surprised me. My analytic workload ran 45 times faster. This is because with BLU Acceleration, not only can the data be larger than the amount of available RAM, but DB2 is also very effective at keeping the data in memory and was performing the data analytics directly on compressed data.” Read the full announcement here.