What is Informix on Cloud?

The IBM® Informix® on Cloud offering provides an Informix database on IBM Cloud®. It offers customers the rich features of an on-premises Informix deployment while helping reduce the cost, complexity and risk of managing your own infrastructure. Informix on Cloud brings you a high-performance engine that integrates time series, spatial, NoSQL and SQL data together with easy access through MQTT, REST and MongoDB APIs.

Informix on Cloud benefits

Accelerated deployment

Accelerate and simplify your cloud deployments with Informix on Cloud and take advantage of the high-performance Informix engine that integrates time series, spatial, NoSQL and SQL data.

Lower total cost of ownership

Help reduce the cost and complexity of infrastructure maintenance using flexible hosting and software licensing options. Choose the size that meets your business needs, with always-on support.

Enterprise security

Gain total control of your data at rest and in flight with native encryption for all configurations.

Analytics for IoT solution

Easily replicate your time series and other data from the edge into Informix on Cloud to perform deeper analytics, including predictive analytics.

Informix on Cloud features

Optimized for OLTP

Gain optimization for online transaction processing (OLTP) with the included preconfigured instance. Or create your own instances for analytics or mixed workloads.

Informix Warehouse Accelerator

Configure in-memory query acceleration using the Informix Warehouse Accelerator and improve predictive insights.

Infrastructure as a service

Experience flexibility and control to tailor your environments with the database provisioning system included in this automated infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

Informix flexible grid

Scale capacity when and where you need. Schedule upgrades or maintenance when you want, with little or no downtime and without using temporary hardware or cloning your databases and applications.

Case studies

Hilscher

See how IBM Business Partner Hilscher used Informix to help retail clients deliver new layers of insight from IoT sensors and edge analytics.

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SmartAxiom

Explore how SmartAxiom worked with IBM to build a decentralized security solution using Informix, providing device-to-cloud security within IoT ecosystems.

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Petrosoft

See how retail technology solution provider Petrosoft uses Informix to help its clients harness IoT data for faster insight into their fuel and retail operations.

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Informix training

Introduction to Informix Terminology and Data Types

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This course introduces students to basic Informix terminology, system access, and data types.