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User Group 2011 Technical Roadshow

Date – December 1 and 2, 2011 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location – IBM, 600 14th St NW, Washington DC

Folks, we had a great User Group meeting and lab by Scott Pickett, IBM Informix Worldwide Technical Sales lead. He lead us through the presentations and hands on labs on the new features in Informix 11.70. This was a great opportunity to try out the new version and learn the latest features.

Link to Download the Presentations

FREE Technical Training and Information for Informix Users

What is the Informix Technical Roadshow? The 2011 Informix Technical Roadshow is a two-day, deep-dive technical event that gives you hands-on experience with the latest IBM® Informix® releases and Informix Warehousing technology. This roadshow is designed to help you gain fresh, innovative ideas for optimizing your business performance and creative competitive advantage – and it is absolutely free to attend these events.

The Roadshow topics include:

  • Latest features of IDS 11.70 Flexible Grid
  • Technology Storage Provisioning
  • Time Series
  • Smart Metering
  • Informix Warehouse Accelerator Autonomics

March User Group Event

In March Carlton Doe, IBM Informix Technical Specialist and author of “Administering Informix Dynamic Server: Building the Foundation“, presented at our user group meeting and conducted a 2 day Informix Hands-on-Lab.

  • Washington Area Informix User Group Meeting – New Informix Ease of Administration, Informix Flexible Grid, Informix Automatic Storage Provisioning by Carlton Doe

    • Date – Friday, March 11, 2011 9:00am – 12:00 noon.
    • Location – IBM, 600 14th St NW Washington, Washington DC
  • Informix Hands-on-Lab – Informix Flexible Grid and Informix Automatic Storage Provisioning by Carlton Doe (limited to 15 people)

    • Date – Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:00am – 5:00pm (part 1)
      • and Friday March 11, 2011 1:00pm to 5:00pm (part 2)
    • Location – IBM, 600 14th St NW Washington, Washington DC

At the recent IBM Information on Demand Conference, IBM announced the latest in a continuing series of updates and enhancements to IBM Informix Dynamic Server — version 11.7! This new release continues to enhance and extend the market leading technology of Informix in a number of key areas; including data replication and clustering, ease-of-use, security, and scalability.

To help you learn more about what Informix 11.7 has to offer, IBM is sponsoring a FREE, 2-day hands-on seminar. In this seminars you’ll get a full explanation of all the latest technologies and features including Informix Flexible Grid, Informix Automatic Storage Provisioning, application development enhancements, migration assistant, instance cloning and more. The hands-on labs will give you the ability to use these technologies in real-world conditions.

Informix Tech Day was held on Tuesday, November 9, 2010

We had an exciting deep dive into Informix 11.70 on November 9, 2010 by John Miller III, STSM, Embedability Architect from IBM. Art Kagel and Lester Knutsen shared the results of their hands on tests with the beta pre-release of Informix 11.70, and its great performance improvements.

Agenda: (Link to PDF Flyer)