IBM itself is using the BLU components of DB2 10.5 as a cornerstone for its DB2 SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS), to add computational heft for data reporting and analysis jobs.

IBM’s newly released DB2 9.1 (previously code-named “Viper”) sheds many of the limitations of DB2 8, boosting performance, scalability, and security. But one feature in particular, the ...

What’s an AI database? If you were to ask IBM executives, they would point you to Db2, the 36-year-old database that’s used by tens of thousands of companies around the world to power transactional ...

IBM has announced version 9.7 of DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse software, focused on transactional performance improvements in the DB2 database, and on expansion of analytics to XML data in the ...

To help organizations unlock the full potential of their data for the AI era, IBM is unveiling IBM Db2 12.1.2, the latest iteration of its flexible, AI-powered database. With enhancements to security, ...

DB2 is optimized for the cloud, SAP, Intel’s Xeon processor and IBM POWER. This expansion has brought the power of the relational database to a variety of businesses worldwide.

IBM also intends to bring out a version of DB2 9 for its System z mainframe before year’s end, he added. DB2 9 Enterprise Edition, a full-blown version of the database, is priced from US$36,400 ...

Meanwhile, IBM said Db2 11.5 has a shared code base with three editions: Db2, Db2 Standard and Db2 Advanced. Db2 is a trial download for developers with a single application to prototype and test.

While the computing giant has no immediate plans to open-source DB2, market conditions may make it unavoidable, according to Chris Livesey, IBM's U.K. director of information management software.