Take the easy path to improve performance and lower database costs

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Take the easy path to improve performance and lower database costs

Proven strategies for uncovering cost savings with IBM DB2

1 2 3 4 5Administration costs If administration is eating up your IT spending, look at database features that increase DBA productivity.

Storage costsData compression technology doesn’t just save disk space—it can cut backup times and power costs, too.

Development costsUse IBM solutions to help boost developer productivity and alleviate bottlenecks.

Server costsOptimizing database performance can help you postpone pricey hardware upgrades and lower power costs.

Move to DB2 easilyDatabase migrations have been redefined. Moving is easier than you thought.


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Bottom line = top priority

You’ve been directed to do more with less—like every IT manager in this business climate—and you’re looking for the smartest way to do it. But reducing costs is only half the challenge; the other half is doing it without cutting performance, reliability, scalability or IT’s capacity to support your organization’s objectives.

It may not be immediately obvious, but your enterprise database affects all those variables. Are database administration expenses a large part of your IT budget? All databases are not created equally in this regard. Is your storage infrastructure growing by leaps and bounds? The way your database handles data could be the culprit. Your database might even be layering additional time onto your

developers’ projects, depending on how easy—or difficult—it is for them to work with it.

Given its role as the foundation for your entire software infrastructure, your enterprise database has a significant influence on costs. In this e-book, we’ll examine the ways that your enterprise database can help or hinder the bottom line. We’ll also show how IBM® DB2® can help you uncover cost savings while delivering performance, automation, productivity, green IT benefits and more. Finally, if you’re evaluating your IT expenses and looking for changes with the biggest possible systemwide impact, we’ll show you why moving to DB2 should be at the top of your list.

1 Administration costs 2 Storage costs 3 Development costs 4 Server costs 5 Move to DB2 easily 6 Resources


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Evaluate your administration costs

Until recently, costs for management and administration represented the largest percentage of total IT spending. However, that is no longer the case. Many companies are taking advantage of new products and features to significantly reduce the amount of time and effort spent on management and administration. Is your organization doing the same?


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Your database can help cut administration costs by taking care of itself as much as possible. A database that automates and intelligently performs tasks that would otherwise be performed by database administrators (DBAs) frees those staff members to focus on more strategic initiatives, thus delivering a stronger return on investment. It can also increase IT bandwidth for other support functions without increasing headcount, decrease total cost of ownership, and even help reduce the percentage of database outages related to human errors.

DB2 can help reduce costs for staffing and maintenance by automating a range of administrative tasks, such as memory management, storage allocation and configuration management. In fact, DB2 has so many capabilities for automating tasks—automated storage, business policy maintenance, lock visualization, built-in monitors, automatic settings for most of your parameters and more—that you can put it on autopilot in many cases. The end result is a database environment that requires much less DBA oversight and allows a small number of DBAs to manage a large application/database environment.


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Take Self Tuning Memory Manager (STMM), for example. It responds to significant changes in workload by dynamically distributing available memory resources among several memory consumers for the database. STMM can help you avoid resource-overload situations that negatively impact database response times and threaten service-level agreements (SLAs). Its advanced tuning algorithms predict memory usage to help tune the system for maximum performance, making it especially valuable in industries where workload memory requirements can change dramatically over time.

STMM helps improve performance and helps dramatically reduce the database’s total cost of ownership for small and large businesses alike. Internal IBM testing shows that it is effective at tuning database memory in performance-sensitive environments, with complex workloads and in the presence of fluctuating system resource availability. Additional internal tests have shown that STMM can make DB2 perform slightly better than an experienced DB2 DBA—which can translate into huge administration cost savings.

“The return on investment for the database migration project is less than one year. Saving costs in these difficult times is exactly what we were aiming for.”

—Holger Rosenberg, Director and Head of the SAP Competence Center, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG


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DB2 helps reduce administration costs with the following capabilities:

• Self-configuring: Automatically sets up the system and manages configuration settings

• Self-healing: Automatically helps resolve problems as they occur

• Self-optimizing: Reacts to changes in workloads and adjusts memory and other facets of the software to continuously improve performance

• Self-protecting: Addresses external security threats to the system by detecting and preventing unauthorized access

The DB2 Health Advisor Service complements DB2’s extensive automation, making a DBA’s job easier still. With this free, on-demand service, IBM will perform an automated health check on your DB2 system. A single command triggers the health check, which is based on insights and best practices gleaned from thousands of DB2 configurations. A report with recommendations is sent to the email address you specify.

“It is much easier to maintain DB2 as compared to Oracle Database. It is the equivalent of adding half a DBA to my team.”— Tom DeJuneas,

IT Team Manager, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated


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Optimize your storage

The volume of data that organizations create, store, back up and replicate continues to expand, so it’s no surprise that storage growth is outpacing server growth and costs for storage hardware are steadily increasing as a percentage of IT budgets.

DB2 incorporates Deep Compression technology, which can help reduce storage requirements for database tables, indexes, log archives and temporary space. In addition, all these savings extend to backup systems and disaster recovery systems.

“Our original migration from Oracle Database to DB2 brought us a 40 percent storage savings. Upgrading to DB2 9.7 and utilizing index compression saved us another 17 percent in storage, bringing our average savings to 57 percent. Now, using Adaptive Compression, we’ve seen an additional 20 percent savings, bringing our average compression savings for our databases to 77 percent, a dramatic storage savings!”

—Andrew Juarez, Lead SAP Basis/DBA, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated


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Compression and optimization features can help reduce the amount of storage you need, which helps control IT infrastructure costs in several ways. When data occupies less space on primary storage systems, it also occupies less space on other devices where it is held for backup or disaster recovery. For example, the DB2 Adaptive Compression feature helped some companies achieve more than 7 times overall space savings, and some tables achieved more than 10 times space savings.1

In addition, compressed data volumes take less time to back up, reducing network traffic and decreasing the amount of time spent administering backup processes.Fewer storage devices require less power

and cooling, too—freeing up precious IT resources that can be allocated to other projects.

Combined with the storage savings on a disaster recovery site, backup storage savings, floor space, electrical and other infrastructure costs associated with storage, moving to DB2 can result in significant savings to your entire business.

Some DB2 compression technology users also enjoy performance improvements thanks to enhanced I/O performance and more efficient memory utilization. Such performance improvements can help you save additional money by delaying hardware upgrades.



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Assess development costs

Given staffing budget constraints and an increasing workload, developers have less time than ever to meet a growing demand for applications. IT departments are understandably focused on large-scale enterprise projects and system availability, which leaves little time for developing applications for small groups of line-of-business (LOB) users. This mismatch between resources and need has created a growing gap—the “quick applications gap”—between the pressing need of LOB staff for such applications and the ability of IT departments to develop them.

What’s required are strategies that boost productivity for developers so they can give business users the applications they need to do their jobs better.

“The introduction of the Time Travel Query feature greatly simplifies the development and maintenance of time-aware application code, resulting in up to nine times coding cost savings.”

—Pradeep Naik Wipro Technologies


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IBM offers a portfolio of solutions that foster cross-role collaboration to help lower costs, reduce development time and improve the quality of service for new and existing applications. They include the following:

1. DB2 Time Travel Query is a collection of management capabilities that allow data querying at current, past or future times—easily and transparently, without application changes. It helps reduce the need for a complex infrastructure to address compliance and other point-in-time query and reporting needs.

2. IBM DB2 pureXML® helps developers reduce the amount of effort typically involved in managing XML data. For instance, UCLA Health System reported a 70 percent reduction in the number of staff needed to add new schemas and data into their system.2

3. IBM Data Studio and IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ pureQuery™ Runtime together provide an integrated development environment to help speed data access design, development and deployment while increasing data access efficiency and performance.


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Server costs: Focus on infrastructure

DB2 can help reduce hardware acquisition costs by optimizing the performance of servers and postponing costly hardware upgrades. It is consistently a top performer on standard industry benchmarks that measure database performance on transactional and warehousing systems. In addition, DB2 has held two industry benchmarks for more days than all other vendors combined between January 1, 2003 and April 19, 2012.

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Those high levels of performance mean you can run DB2 using fewer servers, which can reduce hardware costs, maintenance costs, support costs and even the number of software licenses you need to purchase and maintain. All of those reductions can add up to significant ongoing cost savings.

Another way to cut server costs is to increase scalability, availability and utilization. IBM DB2 pureScale® software does just that. From reliability and virtualization features inspired by IBM’s success in mainframe systems to unique energy-saving capabilities, DB2 pureScale delivers levels of database scalability and availability

with few equals on UNIX or x86 systems. It enables your database to continue processing through most unplanned outages and provides extreme capacity for any transactional workload. The cluster-based, shared-disk architecture of DB2 pureScale also helps reduce costs through efficient use of system resources.

“IBM and Intel have collaborated over a decade to optimize DB2 performance with Intel Parallel Studio 2011, software development suite on Intel Xeon processors. We are excited to see a ~10x improvement in query processing performance using DB2 10 over the previous DB2 version, running on IBM System x3850 using Intel Xeon processor E7. Customers can now realize dramatically greater performance boost at lower cost per query running IBM DB2 10 on servers powered by Intel Xeon processors.”

—Pauline Nist, GM Software Strategies, Intel


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Make the move

As you examine options for efficiently cutting IT costs, consider the fact that changing your database will give you more bang for your buck than just about anything else you can do. Other changes in hardware, software, staffing or facilities may affect one or another cost factor, but your choice of database affects them all, and can have a cumulative effect that quickly brings you closer to your budget goals.

Making the decision to move to DB2 becomes easier when you consider its wide range of performance- and efficiency-boosting features and capabilities. Plus, the cost benefits of moving to DB2 have been increasing with every release. For example, DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition provides even more value: it includes the DB2 database, additional storage and performance optimization features, and advanced database management solutions for administrators and developers—all at one low price.

“We switched from Oracle Database to IBM DB2 and cut our data management costs in half, while improving performance and reliability of business applications.”

—Sandro Reátegui Systems Architect Banco de Crédito del Peru


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DB2 recently added several features that make it easy to move from Oracle Database to DB2. For example, DB2 supports many of the application programming interfaces (APIs) familiar to Oracle Database users, including SQL, procedural languages, scripting languages, packages and more. In DB2 10 Early Access Program testing, users found that on average, 98 percent of their Oracle PL/SQL code was compatible with DB2,3 which greatly simplifies the process of moving from Oracle Database to DB2. As a result, IBM clients and partners are reporting significantly reduced database

migration efforts from Oracle Database. Plus, DB2 can cost as little as one-third the cost of Oracle Database.4 Contact IBM to see for yourself how easy it is to move to DB2 and enjoy cost savings.

To help reduce administration, storage, development and server costs and give your users the best possible database to support their critical applications, conduct your own analysis and see for yourself that there’s a compelling case for moving to IBM DB2—now.

“The total cost of ownership with DB2 running on IBM Power servers is almost half the cost of Oracle Database on Sun systems.”

—Anuprita Daga, Chief Manager, IT, Reliance Life Insurance

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For more information about IBM DB2 and uncovering cost savings, please explore these resources:

• Break free to DB2 • DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows • DB2 pureScale• DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition• Database Management Solutions for DB2

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SPARC SuperCluster w/T3-4 Servers (27 x 64 C)(108 Ch/1728 C/13824 Th); 30,249,688 tpmC; $1.01/tpmC; avail 6/1/11]. TPC-C is a trademark of Transaction Performance Processing Council. www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/ as of 4/3/2012 [IBM Power 795 (32 P/256 C/1024 Th); 126063 users/2-tier SAP ERP 6.0 pack4/AIX 7.1 + DB2 9.7; cert 2010046 v. Oracle SPARC Enterprise Server M9000 (64 P/256 C/512 Th); 39100 users/2-tier SAP ERP 6.0/Solaris 10, Oracle 10g; cert 2008042]. SAP is registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. Any price comparisons made by IBM are not based on the specific benchmarks listed here.

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