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

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Administration
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Storage
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Development
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Server
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Move to
costs costs costs costs DB2 easily
If administration is eating Data compression Use IBM solutions to Optimizing database Database migrations
up your IT spending, technology doesn’t just help boost developer performance can help have been redefined.
look at database save disk space—it can productivity and you postpone pricey Moving is easier than
features that increase cut backup times and alleviate bottlenecks. hardware upgrades and you thought.
DBA productivity. power costs, too. lower power costs.


Bottom line = top priority
You’ve been directed to do more with developers’ projects, depending on how
less—like every IT manager in this business easy—or difficult—it is for them to work
climate—and you’re looking for the smartest with it.
way to do it. But reducing costs is only
half the challenge; the other half is doing Given its role as the foundation for
it without cutting performance, reliability, your entire software infrastructure, your
scalability or IT’s capacity to support your enterprise database has a significant
organization’s objectives. influence on costs. In this e-book, we’ll
examine the ways that your enterprise
It may not be immediately obvious, but database can help or hinder the bottom
your enterprise database affects all those line. We’ll also show how IBM® DB2®
variables. Are database administration can help you uncover cost savings while
expenses a large part of your IT budget? delivering performance, automation,
All databases are not created equally in productivity, green IT benefits and more.
this regard. Is your storage infrastructure Finally, if you’re evaluating your IT expenses
growing by leaps and bounds? The way and looking for changes with the biggest
your database handles data could be possible systemwide impact, we’ll show
the culprit. Your database might even you why moving to DB2 should be at the
be layering additional time onto your top of your list.

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


Evaluate your administration costs
Until recently, costs US$300

for management Power and cooling expense
and administration Server management and administration—virtual servers
US$250
represented the largest Server management and administration—stand-alone servers
Server spending
percentage of total IT
spending. However, that US$200
Billions of dollars

is no longer the case.
Many companies are
US$150
taking advantage of new
products and features to
significantly reduce the US$100
amount of time and effort
spent on management
US$50
and administration. Is
your organization doing
the same? US$0
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Year
Source: Three Data Centers—One Vision? Datacenter Trends and Strategies, by Michelle Bailey, IDC, March 2010 (Doc.# DR2010_T2_MB)

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Your database can help cut administration DB2 can help reduce costs for staffing
costs by taking care of itself as much as and maintenance by automating a range
possible. A database that automates and of administrative tasks, such as memory
intelligently performs tasks that would management, storage allocation and
otherwise be performed by database configuration management. In fact, DB2
administrators (DBAs) frees those staff has so many capabilities for automating
members to focus on more strategic tasks—automated storage, business policy
initiatives, thus delivering a stronger return maintenance, lock visualization, built-in
on investment. It can also increase IT monitors, automatic settings for most of
bandwidth for other support functions your parameters and more—that you can
without increasing headcount, decrease put it on autopilot in many cases. The
total cost of ownership, and even help end result is a database environment that
reduce the percentage of database requires much less DBA oversight and
outages related to human errors. allows a small number of DBAs to manage
a large application/database environment.

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“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

Take Self Tuning Memory Manager (STMM), STMM helps improve performance and
for example. It responds to significant helps dramatically reduce the database’s
changes in workload by dynamically total cost of ownership for small and
distributing available memory resources large businesses alike. Internal IBM
among several memory consumers for testing shows that it is effective at tuning
the database. STMM can help you avoid database memory in performance-sensitive
resource-overload situations that negatively environments, with complex workloads
impact database response times and and in the presence of fluctuating system
threaten service-level agreements (SLAs). resource availability. Additional internal tests
Its advanced tuning algorithms predict have shown that STMM can make DB2
memory usage to help tune the system perform slightly better than an experienced
for maximum performance, making it DB2 DBA—which can translate into huge
especially valuable in industries where administration cost savings.
workload memory requirements can
change dramatically over time.

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DB2 helps reduce administration costs with The DB2 Health Advisor Service complements
the following capabilities: DB2’s extensive automation, making a DBA’s
job easier still. With this free, on-demand “It is much easier to
• Self-configuring: Automatically sets service, IBM will perform an automated maintain DB2 as
up the system and manages
configuration settings
health check on your DB2 system. A single
command triggers the health check, which is
compared to Oracle
• Self-healing: Automatically helps based on insights and best practices gleaned Database. It is the
resolve problems as they occur
• Self-optimizing: Reacts to changes in
from thousands of DB2 configurations. A equivalent of adding
report with recommendations is sent to the
workloads and adjusts memory and email address you specify.
half a DBA to
other facets of the software to my team.”
continuously improve performance
• Self-protecting: Addresses external — Tom DeJuneas,
security threats to the system by detecting IT Team Manager,
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated
and preventing unauthorized access

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Optimize your storage
The volume of data that organizations
create, store, back up and replicate “Our original migration from Oracle Database to DB2
continues to expand, so it’s no surprise that
storage growth is outpacing server growth
brought us a 40 percent storage savings. Upgrading to DB2 9.7
and costs for storage hardware are steadily and utilizing index compression saved us another 17 percent
increasing as a percentage of IT budgets. in storage, bringing our average savings to 57 percent. Now,
DB2 incorporates Deep Compression
using Adaptive Compression, we’ve seen an additional 20 percent
technology, which can help reduce storage savings, bringing our average compression savings for our
requirements for database tables, indexes, databases to 77 percent, a dramatic storage savings!”
log archives and temporary space. In
addition, all these savings extend to backup —Andrew Juarez, Lead SAP Basis/DBA, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated
systems and disaster recovery systems.

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Compression and optimization features and cooling, too—freeing up precious
can help reduce the amount of storage you IT resources that can be allocated to
need, which helps control IT infrastructure other projects.
costs in several ways. When data occupies
less space on primary storage systems, Combined with the storage savings on
it also occupies less space on other a disaster recovery site, backup storage
devices where it is held for backup or savings, floor space, electrical and other
disaster recovery. For example, the DB2 infrastructure costs associated with
Adaptive Compression feature helped some storage, moving to DB2 can result in
companies achieve more than 7 times overall significant savings to your entire business.
space savings, and some tables achieved
Some DB2 compression technology users
more than 10 times space savings.1
also enjoy performance improvements
In addition, compressed data volumes take thanks to enhanced I/O performance and
less time to back up, reducing network more efficient memory utilization. Such
traffic and decreasing the amount of time performance improvements can help
spent administering backup processes. you save additional money by delaying
Fewer storage devices require less power hardware upgrades.

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Assess development costs
Given staffing budget constraints and an
increasing workload, developers have “The introduction
less time than ever to meet a growing
demand for applications. IT departments
of the Time Travel
are understandably focused on large-scale Query feature
enterprise projects and system availability, greatly simplifies
which leaves little time for developing the development
applications for small groups of line-of-
business (LOB) users. This mismatch
and maintenance
between resources and need has created of time-aware
a growing gap—the “quick applications application code,
gap”—between the pressing need of LOB resulting in up to
staff for such applications and the ability
of IT departments to develop them.
nine times coding
cost savings.”
What’s required are strategies that boost
productivity for developers so they can —Pradeep Naik
give business users the applications they Wipro Technologies
need to do their jobs better.

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IBM offers a portfolio of solutions that foster 2. IBM DB2 pureXML® helps developers
cross-role collaboration to help lower costs, reduce the amount of effort typically
reduce development time and improve involved in managing XML data. For
the quality of service for new and existing instance, UCLA Health System reported
applications. They include the following: a 70 percent reduction in the number of
staff needed to add new schemas and
1. DB2 Time Travel Query is a collection data into their system.2
of management capabilities that allow 3. IBM Data Studio and IBM
data querying at current, past or future InfoSphere® Optim™ pureQuery™
times—easily and transparently, without Runtime together provide an integrated
application changes. It helps reduce development environment to help speed
the need for a complex infrastructure to data access design, development and
address compliance and other point- deployment while increasing data access
in-time query and reporting needs. efficiency and performance.

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Server costs: Focus on infrastructure
DB2 can help reduce hardware acquisition TPC-H: 10 TB results SAP 3-tier SD

Days of benchmark leadership from Jan. 1, 2003 to April 19, 2012
3,200
costs by optimizing the performance of
3,189
servers and postponing costly hardware 3,000

upgrades. It is consistently a top performer 2,800

on standard industry benchmarks that 2,600 IBM
Teradata
measure database performance on 2,400 Oracle
2,366
transactional and warehousing systems. 2,200
Microsoft

In addition, DB2 has held two industry 2,000
benchmarks for more days than all other 1,800
vendors combined between January 1,
1,600
2003 and April 19, 2012.
1,400

1,200

1,000

800

600
425
400

200
225 207
0 0 0
0

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Those high levels of performance mean Another way to cut server costs is to with few equals on UNIX or x86 systems.
you can run DB2 using fewer servers, increase scalability, availability and utilization. It enables your database to continue
which can reduce hardware costs, IBM DB2 pureScale® software does processing through most unplanned
maintenance costs, support costs and just that. From reliability and virtualization outages and provides extreme capacity
even the number of software licenses features inspired by IBM’s success in for any transactional workload. The cluster-
you need to purchase and maintain. mainframe systems to unique energy-saving based, shared-disk architecture of DB2
All of those reductions can add up to capabilities, DB2 pureScale delivers levels pureScale also helps reduce costs through
significant ongoing cost savings. of database scalability and availability 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 Making the decision to move to DB2
“We switched from Oracle IT costs, consider the fact that changing your becomes easier when you consider its wide
database will give you more bang for your range of performance- and efficiency-
Database to IBM DB2 and buck than just about anything else you can boosting features and capabilities. Plus, the
cut our data management do. Other changes in hardware, software, cost benefits of moving to DB2 have been
costs in half, while improving staffing or facilities may affect one or increasing with every release. For example,
performance and reliability of another cost factor, but your choice of DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition
database affects them all, and can have a provides even more value: it includes the
business applications.” cumulative effect that quickly brings you DB2 database, additional storage and
closer to your budget goals. performance optimization features, and
—Sandro Reátegui
Systems Architect advanced database management solutions
Banco de Crédito del Peru for administrators and developers—all at
one low price.

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DB2 recently added several features that migration efforts from Oracle Database.
make it easy to move from Oracle Database Plus, DB2 can cost as little as one-third the
to DB2. For example, DB2 supports many cost of Oracle Database.4 Contact IBM to
of the application programming interfaces see for yourself how easy it is to move to
(APIs) familiar to Oracle Database users, DB2 and enjoy cost savings.
including SQL, procedural languages,
scripting languages, packages and more. In To help reduce administration, storage,
DB2 10 Early Access Program testing, development and server costs and give
users found that on average, 98 percent of your users the best possible database to
their Oracle PL/SQL code was compatible support their critical applications, conduct
with DB2,3 which greatly simplifies the your own analysis and see for yourself that
process of moving from Oracle Database to there’s a compelling case for moving to
DB2. As a result, IBM clients and partners IBM DB2—now.
are reporting significantly reduced database

“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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Resources
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Based on client testing in the DB2 10 Early Access Program. IBM products are warranted according to the terms and conditions of the
agreements under which they are provided.
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“UCLA Health System cuts information processing times from weeks to hours using IBM DB2 9 with pureXML. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/
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applicable to it. IBM does not provide legal advice or represent or warrant
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Based on internal tests and reported client experience from September 28, 2011 to March 7, 2012.
that its services or products will ensure that the client is in compliance with
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PERFORMANCE: www.tpc.org as of 4/3/2012 [IBM Power 780 (3 x 64 C)(24 Ch/192 C/768 Th); 10,366,254 tpmC; $1.38/tpmC; avail 10/13/10 v. Oracle any law or regulation. Statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent
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 are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and
Transaction Performance Processing Council. www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/ as of 4/3/2012 [IBM Power 795 (32 P/256 C/1024 Th); 126063 objectives only.
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 Please Recycle
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