IBM has introduced a new version of its database software, the IBM DB2 V11.1, which will help developers in easing development of on-premises applications to cloud.
The new version of IBM’s DB2 V11.1 is a multi-workload database software that can power next generation applications including mobile, advanced analytics, cognitive and highly available transactions.
The software also offers a security-rich environment which is a perquisite for the hybrid world. It has been designed to protect data both during transmission and at rest.
IBM claims that it was the first database which has been enabled with in-memory technology that can be easily deployed across, a massively parallel processing architecture and can help in dramatically improving responses.
IBM Analytics development vice president Rob Thomas said: "In today’s world, clients need to leverage a truly hybrid data infrastructure that reduces the boundaries of where they can build and deploy efficient, resilient and highly scalable applications.
"DB2 is the best choice for mission critical, multi-workload applications, regardless of where you deploy them, on premise or in the cloud. This agility helps our clients accelerate innovation for competitive advantage."
The use of common features, accessibility, security and tooling offers a uniform experience, which in turn gives fast and reliable data the customer expects, despite deployment options.
IBM says that this feature will help in ensuring that moving or extending applications to the cloud will not hamper a customer’s business.
With IBM DB2, data can be made simple so that developers can focus on building new apps that manage "born in the cloud" data, moving data workloads back and forth between data centre and cloud, delivering short-term database projects and developing off-premises disaster recovery fail-safes.
Apart from this, IBM says that DB2 is SQL-compatible, which makes it easy to use existing SQL skills to move applications from Oracle and DB2, whether on premises or in the cloud.
