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10.4.2.23 Information Server on Cloud
As the previous service, IBM Information Server on Cloud provides IBM InfoSphere Information Server functionality
on IBM SoftLayer global cloud infrastructure. It offers the rich features of the on-premises Information Server
deployment without the cost, complexity, and risk of managing your own infrastructure.
Features
• Flexible packaging
• Separate products:
• Information Governance Catalog on Cloud: encourages a standardized approach to discovering IT
assets and defining a common business language, and manages and explore data lineage to create
trusted information that supports data governance and compliance efforts.
• DataStage on Cloud: provides powerful and scalable ETL platform, supports near real time
data integration, uses a high performance parallel framework and supports extended metadata
management and enterprise connectivity.
• Information Server on Cloud Data Quality: cleanses data and monitors data quality in batch and in
near real time.
• Information Server on Cloud Enterprise Edition packages the three above products
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10.4.2.24 Informix on Cloud
Is a fully managed relational database, similar to DB2, but it has a few NoSQL features which allow to combine
structured as well as un-structured data, and allow to store JSON in store engine.
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10.4.2.25 Lift
Lift is a fully managed data and database migration service. Use Lift to quickly, easily and securely migrate data
from your on-premises data sources to the cloud. When migrating between heterogeneous database engines, an
integrated schema compatibility assessment walks you through the process of converting your source schema
to your target engine.
Features
• Can migrate your data from and to the IBM dashDB cloud
data warehouse and IBM DB2 on Cloud.
• Secure migration: Any data movement across the internet requires strong encryption so that your data is
never compromised.
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