This document discusses IBM's Integrated Analytics System (IIAS), which is a next generation hybrid data warehouse appliance. Some key points:
- IIAS provides high performance analytics capabilities along with data warehousing and management functions.
- It utilizes a common SQL engine to allow workloads and skills to be portable across public/private clouds and on-premises.
- The system is designed for flexibility with the ability to independently scale compute and storage capacity. It also supports a variety of workloads including reporting, analytics, and operational analytics.
- IBM is positioning IIAS to address top customer requirements around broader workloads, higher concurrency, in-place expansion, and availability solutions.