IBM is basically trying to get a good bite into the storage market leaders like EMC.
By it adding Venom to its Viper DB2 database server, the new storage-compression technology will allow users to cut storage needs by more than half. That's good news if your storage goes into the Terabytes range and its designed for Windows, Linux and Unix systems.
The company's new compression technology, code-named "Venom," allows database administrators to compress rows in database tables by scanning tables for repetitive, duplicate data in rows and building dictionaries that assign short, numeric keys to those repetitive entries. According to IBM, this compression can provide disk, I/O and memory savings, and beta testers of the technology have been able to reduce storage needs by more than 50 percent.
IBM reported sales from its middleware brands, which include WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational products, of $3 billion, up 6 percent compared to the first quarter of 2005.
DB2 Viper provides leading edge XML technology removing traditional boundaries of relational databases. It provides ‘native’ storage for XML data, rather than requiring the data to be forced into a column and row format or requiring it to be stored as a large object.
Venom storage-compression technology by IBM on the Viper DB2 database server source
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