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Washington Area Informix User GroupTurning Data into Knowledge at the Speed of Thought and Actually Using Smart Sensors and Other Time Sensitive Data with TimeSeries Informix Roadshow by Carlton DoeA series of free one-day, technical events designed to give you hands-on experience with proven IBM® Informix® technology to solve some of the toughest business problems in the world today. The IBM Informix Technical Deep-Dive Roadshow will be making a stop in Washington, DC on July 19-20, 2012. The sessions will be led by renowned author and speaker Carlton Doe. The event will feature one day each on Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) and Informix TimeSeries. The event is free, but registration is required. For more details and registration Are you an Energies and Utilities company with smart meters, or in manufacturing, science or technology with a myriad of sensors and gauges, or the financial industry trying to track and analyze patterns in real-time? You're undoubtedly struggling to process and store the avalanch of data generated by this new generation of smart meters and senors. TimeSeries is your answer. A unique technology to IBM, recent customer proofs and wins include the ability to provide linear scalability up to 100 million meters to load and process meter data at 30-minute intervals in less than 8 hours. The time required for 10 million meters took less than 36 minutes. In addition to a marked increase in ease of use and speed, using TimeSeries usually provides customers with storage savings of 30 to 60 percent or more when compared to storing this type of data in relational database systems. Are you faced with the requirement to produce better business insight from your existing data warehouse environment in less time? Would you like to reduce your report generation time from minutes or hours to mere seconds? Warehouse Accelerator is a software solution incorporating an in-memory, columnar system with a proven track record of providing hundreds to thousands percent improvement in report performance. Using this technology will give you the ability to get the knowledge you need from your data faster than ever before; almost at the speed of thought! This roadshow is designed to help you gain fresh, innovative ideas for optimizing your business performance and creative competitive advantage. Each day will begin at 9:00 A.M. and conclude between 4 and 5 P.M. There will be a combination of educational presentations and hands-on exercises where you will use the technology. Lunch will be provided. Register for the event or events you're interested in by clicking here: Washington Area Informix User Group TimeSeries Hands on LabThe last Washington Area Informix User Group event was a one-day Hands on Lab on the Informix TimeSeries technology that is being used in the IBM Smarter Planet initiative with Metering Data and Smart Grid.
Informix is a market leader in the integration of what are called “extensibility” features that enable the database architect to natively create, store, and manipulate complex User-Defined Data Types (UDTs) with User-Defined Routines (UDRs) as though they were built-in data types in the database engine. With this capability, Informix can solve very complex problems with simple SQL statements. As a result, Informix is the perfect database engine to help create a Smarter Planet. This lab will expose participants to one of these extensibility features -- the Informix TimeSeries technology. A "time series" is any set of data that is accessed in sequence by time and can be processed and analyzed in a chronological order. Informix TimeSeries can be used in financial, scientific, utility, manufacturing, and other industries where data is captured over time and needs to be analyzed quickly and easily. Informix introduced some enhancements in the Informix 11.70.xC3 release and this lab will be based on that release. In this Proof of Technology, participants will get hands-on with Informix TimeSeries technology to create and use regular and irregular times series, containers, calendars and more. Data will be loaded using Informix TimeSeries Virtual Tables and a bulk load routine. The student will use several Informix TimeSeries functions to hide/reveal data, perform complex calculations and more. Finally, participants will use an application that combines Informix TimeSeries and Informix Spatial technology to track vehicle movement as well as location and condition exceptions within a vehicle fleet. User Group 2011 Technical RoadshowDate - December 1 and 2, 2011 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location - IBM, 600 14th St NW, Washington DC
Folks, we had a great User Group meeting and lab by Scott Pickett, IBM Informix Worldwide Technical Sales lead. He lead us through the presentations and hands on labs on the new features in Informix 11.70. This was a great opportunity to try out the new version and learn the latest features. Link to Download the PresentationsFREE Technical Training and Information for Informix UsersWhat is the Informix Technical Roadshow? The 2011 Informix Technical Roadshow is a two-day, deep-dive technical event that gives you hands-on experience with the latest IBM® Informix® releases and Informix Warehousing technology. This roadshow is designed to help you gain fresh, innovative ideas for optimizing your business performance and creative competitive advantage - and it is absolutely free to attend these events. The Roadshow topics include:
March User Group EventIn March Carlton Doe, IBM Informix Technical Specialist and author of "Administering Informix Dynamic Server: Building the Foundation", presented at our user group meeting and conducted a 2 day Informix Hands-on-Lab.
At the recent IBM Information on Demand Conference, IBM announced the latest in a continuing series of updates and enhancements to IBM Informix Dynamic Server -- version 11.7! This new release continues to enhance and extend the market leading technology of Informix in a number of key areas; including data replication and clustering, ease-of-use, security, and scalability. To help you learn more about what Informix 11.7 has to offer, IBM is sponsoring a FREE, 2-day hands-on seminar. In this seminars you'll get a full explanation of all the latest technologies and features including Informix Flexible Grid, Informix Automatic Storage Provisioning, application development enhancements, migration assistant, instance cloning and more. The hands-on labs will give you the ability to use these technologies in real-world conditions. Informix Tech Day was held on Tuesday, November 9, 2010We had an exciting deep dive into Informix 11.70 on November 9, 2010 by John Miller III, STSM, Embedability Architect from IBM. Art Kagel and Lester Knutsen shared the results of their hands on tests with the beta pre-release of Informix 11.70, and its great performance improvements. Agenda: (Link to PDF Flyer)
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