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IBM Db2 Hosted The power of IBM Db2 software combined with the agility of cloud deployment — all under your control

IBM Db2 Hosted: Your fast, economical choice Highlights The IBM Db2 solution is a multi-workload relational system that can improve business agility and reduce costs by helping • Get the full-featured capabilities of you better manage your company’s core asset: data. And now, this IBM® Db2® Workgroup or IBM Db2 Advanced Enterprise Server system is available on demand as a cloud service, which provides the following advantages: • Support both transactional and analytics workloads • Rapid provisioning for nearly instant productivity • Migrate applications more easily thanks Avoid the usual lengthy wait for procurement and data center setup. to compatibility with IBM Db2 software and SQL • Monthly subscription-based licensing Pay for what you use and avoid upfront capital database management • Retain control with full database system (DBMS) expenditures. administrator (DBA) access of IBM hosted instance • Simplified administration You have full administrative control. Automatic provisioning, • Help protect your data with this advanced configuration and facilitated high availability disaster recovery security and single-tenant cloud platform (HADR) setup help lighten your workload. • Deploy IBM Db2 Hosted rapidly to • Deployment location flexibility over 30 IBM Cloud data centers around the world Help meet your data locality requirements and push data closer to where users need it by deploying to dozens of IBM Cloud data • Budget predictably with monthly centers around the world. subscription-based licensing IBM Analytics Data sheet

IBM Db2 Hosted use cases IBM Db2 Hosted features The IBM Db2 solution offers the same functionality as its and configurations on-premises equivalent, so it’s equally suitable for transaction Fixed monthly fee with no hidden charges processing and analytics data workloads. However, rapid Your monthly fee is based only on the price of the self-service cloud deployment and pay-as-you-go licensing configuration you choose. There are no extra costs make it especially useful in the following scenarios: for services such as data transfer.

• Cloud strategy adherence Easier migration thanks to Db2 and IBM Db2 Hosted helps you comply with mandates to Oracle compatibility deploy new projects to the cloud to reduce capital IT IBM Db2 Hosted SQL is compatible with on-premises expenditures and conserve on-premises data center versions of IBM Db2 software and with the Oracle Database. resources. This feature helps make it easier to migrate application code • Short-term database projects to and from IBM Db2 Hosted. IBM Db2 Hosted is ideal for proofs of concept and other short-term development or analytics projects —you only IBM hosting services and high availability pay for the time you use it. Although IBM Db2 Hosted is a hosted service, it gives you • Disaster recovery full DBA control over the system. Your on-premises Db2 instances can replicate data to IBM IBM specialists help make operations easier for you by: Db2 Hosted, which can serve as a fail-safe in the event of a –– Provisioning your IBM Db2 Hosted system primary data center disaster. so it’s preconfigured and ready to use • Geographic reach and regulatory compliance –– Keeping the underlying hardware and operating Deploy IBM Db2 Hosted to IBM Cloud data centers system running and up to date around the world to help meet requirements, regulatory or –– Facilitating database backups and otherwise, for hosting data in specific countries or regions. high-availability setup

Powered by the security-rich, Smooth integration high-performance IBM Cloud IBM Db2 Hosted can be accessed in the same way as The IBM Db2 solution includes all Db2 security features, on-premises versions of IBM Db2 software. In other words, including data encryption. In addition, your DBAs have full the database works with the same applications; security; control over database access and operation. IBM Db2 Hosted extract, transform, load (ETL); messaging; monitoring and is available on dedicated, single-tenant IBM Cloud servers. systems management tools you use today. This feature helps ensure performance will be better isolated and less affected by noisy neighbors.

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Db2 Hosted Standard compared to Advanced Db2 Hosted Standard is a hosted version of the Db2 Workgroup Server Edition, while the “Advanced” version is built on the Db2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition.

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Db2 capabilities and engine functionality Db2 capabilities and engine functionality JSON Db2 NoSQL P P Compression P Table partitioning P P Multi-temperature storage P IBM Mobile Database Sync P P Materialized query tables P IBM Mobile Database Support P P Multi-dimensional clustering P IBM pureXML® Storage P P Query parallelism P Time travel query P P Connection concentrator P Compression backup P P SolidDB and solidDB UC P Row and column access control P P Plan lockdown P Label-based access control P P Scan sharing P SQL replication P P Db2 Workload Management (WLM) P IBM WebSphere® MQ P P Continuous data ingest P High-availability disaster recovery P P MO replication /CDC P IBM Tivoli® System Automation P P Db2 Connect P Online reorg P P Deployment models available Advanced copy services P P BLU P Native encryption P P BLU shadow P Federation capabilities P P Data partitioning feature P

Small, medium, large and extra-large cloud instance types: Your choice of IBM Db2 Hosted engines can be run on the following cloud instance types to handle different-sized workloads:

Small Medium Large Extra-large

Node type Virtual private Virtual private Virtual private Bare metal private

Cores 2 x 2.0 GHz 4 x 2.0 GHz 8 x 2.0 GHz 12 x 2.4 GHz

Memory 8 GB 16 GB 32 GB 128 GB Storage I00 GB, 100 GB 100 GB 2 x 800 GB 500 GB and and SSD @ RAID 1 SAN 1 TB SAN 2 TB SAN (~800 GB) 100 GB @ 100 GB @ 100 GB @ or 500 IOPS 1,200 IOPS 1,600 IOPS 7 x 800 GB SSD @ RAID 6 (~4 TB) Network 1 Gbps public and 1 Gbps public and 1 Gbps public and 10 Gbps redundant private uplinks private uplinks private uplinks public and private uplinks OS RHEL 7.0 RHEL 7.0 RHEL 7.0 RHEL 7.0

* Flex plan allows customers to scale storage and compute resources from 1 virtual processor core (VPC), 4 GB RAM, and 100 GB storage up to 32 VPCs, 128 GB RAM, and 2 TB storage based on individual workload needs.

3 Custom clusters available on request If you have additional needs to support worldwide application deployments, let IBM know. IBM specialists can create custom IBM Db2 Hosted clusters to support your business needs. © Copyright IBM Corporation 2018

Getting started with IBM Db2 Hosted IBM Corporation With IBM Db2 Hosted, there’s no hardware or software IBM Analytics Route 100 to purchase and install. Simply sign up for an IBM Cloud Somers, NY 10589 account at .com/cloud and request an IBM Db2 Hosted instance. If you need assistance learning more Produced in the United States of America January 2018 about IBM Db2 Hosted or determining whether it’s a good fit for your application requirements, contact IBM at IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, Db2, pureXML, Tivoli, and WebSphere are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many [email protected] or visit ibm.com/cloud/db2-hosted jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be IBM is available to answer your questions or set up a trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list discussion with IBM technical specialists. of IBM trademarks is available on the web at “Copyright and trademark information” at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.

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