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IBM collaborates with AWS to launch new cloud database to optimize data management for AI workloads
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IBM Db2 and Amazon RDS combine to deliver flexible, secure, and scalable data management to help you get more value from your data. [Armonk, New York, USA – November 27, 2023 (local time)]
IBM today announced at AWS re:Invent
(http://www.ibm.com/db2).
Businesses are turning to AI to make more informed decisions, automate repetitive tasks, and derive insights that lead to increased efficiency. These AI technologies leverage large amounts of data to provide scalability, cost optimization, performance improvements, business continuity, and more by leveraging modern data stores on cloud-native architectures. is required.
With Amazon RDS for Db2, customers can choose between on-premises, AWS, or hybrid cloud architectures to optimize their AI workloads. Amazon RDS for Db2 helps customers migrate their existing self-managed Db2 databases to the cloud and automate time-consuming database management tasks such as provisioning, backups, software patching, and monitoring. Masu.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with IBM to support our customers,” said Dinesh Nirmal, IBM senior vice president, software products. “Digital transformation is a strategic focus area for nearly all of our customers. By working with AWS to incorporate Db2 into Amazon RDS, both companies will be able to deliver the next generation of applications, analytics, and AI work that power the modern economy. “IBM and AWS are redefining the innovation potential of cloud databases, removing the complexity of modernization and enabling businesses to realize the full potential of their data.”
Amazon RDS customers are seeing significant business value by moving to a fully managed service. According to the results of a survey of RDS users conducted by AWS and IDC, survey participants who migrated to Amazon RDS managed databases were able to manage an average of approximately 60%*1 more databases per DBA over a three-year period. It is expected that database operating costs will be reduced by an average of 39%*1.
Jeff Carter, Vice President of Database and Migration at AWS, said: “By working with IBM, we are making it easy for our customers to manage and modernize their highly regarded and trusted IBM Db2 databases in the cloud. , security best practices, and best-in-class managed database services to hundreds of thousands of customers for their mission-critical workloads. , offload time-consuming database management tasks such as monitoring, and achieve high availability and high durability using Amazon RDS multi-AZ deployments.Customers also gain the ability to accelerate their generative AI efforts. You can easily take advantage of a broad portfolio of AWS services, including Amazon RDS for Db2 leverages the operational know-how and ease of use of Amazon RDS to automate database management, which IBM Db2 has cultivated over decades. Combined experience operating
mission-critical workloads. Many of our early trial customers are already seeing the value of this service and are looking forward to accelerating their productivity and modernization.
Frank Fillmore, owner of Fillmore Group, an IBM business partner who participated in the pilot, said: “IT leaders from customers across a variety of industries find this a compelling value proposition. Amazon RDS for Db2 combines IBM’s fundamental expertise in relational database technology with the cloud innovation of AWS. This combination delivers high deployment efficiency, flexible scaling, and cost reduction.”
As Amazon RDS for Db2 customers accelerate their modernization and AI journey, they can now take advantage of IBM’s unified data and AI capabilities on AWS to scale their data management and AI workloads. This includes IBM’s entire portfolio of commercial databases, data fabric solutions, WatsonX data management and AI, and select AI governance capabilities, all designed to help you build the next generation of trusted AI applications, We help you expand and execute. With Amazon RDS for Db2, customers can leverage Amazon RDS for Db2’s native integration with Db2 Warehouse and the watsonx.data open data lakehouse on AWS to integrate transactional data for AI. Now you can convert and share.
Learn more about how to deploy Amazon RDS for Db2 here:
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/db2/
For additional resources, please see:
Connect with an IBM and AWS expert on Amazon RDS for Db2 (
https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/en-en/signup?formid=urx-52489 ) #1 IDC report “IDC Amazon Relational Database Service Delivers Enhanced Database Performance at Lower Cost” can be viewed at the following URL
https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/IDC_Amazon_RDS_Delivers_Enhanced_Database_Performance_at_Lower Total_Cost.pdf This press release is an excerpt from a press release issued by IBM Corporation on November 27, 2023 (local time). Original article here (
https://newsroom.ibm.com/2023-11-27-IBM-Collaborates-with-AWS-to-Launch-a-New-Cloud-Database-Offering,-Enabling-Customers-to-Optimize -Data-Management-for-AI-Workloads).
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