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Hyderabad lab played key role in five-year IBM project

Chennai , July 11

IBM has leveraged the IBM India Software Lab (ISL) in Hyderabad and Bangalore in developing its DB2 9 Viper software.

Viper enables clients to identify, consolidate, integrate, manage, secure, analyse, and store information in real time, said Mr Harish K. Grama, Vice-President, IBM India Software Lab.

"Viper is one of the most significant database technology enhancements in over two decades and DB2 9 marks the culmination of a five-year IBM development project," he told newspersons.

The share of ISL is around 30 per cent in the development of Viper, which will be globally launched on July 28.

The lab is part of a globally integrated Viper development team comprising members from eight IBM software labs worldwide, including the US, China, Germany, and Israel, he added.

Mr Grama said that ISL has about 2,400 employees, accounting for 10 per cent of IBM's global software lab team.

Some 400 members of the software group at ISL would have been involved in developing Viper at some time or the other. In developing Viper, the ISL was involved in SAP, security, performance and XML.

ISL also jointly worked with SAP - the German software major is a premium partner of IBM - in developing Viper at SAP Germany and testing at IBM centre in Canada, he said.

According to Mr R. Dhamodaran, Country Head of IBM India Software Group, IBM is adding Venom storage-compression technology to its Viper DB2 data server, which will help users cut storage requirements by 80 per cent.

Venom software

For instance, a bank may have two terabytes of data under normal circumstances. The Venom software in Viper DB2 can compress it by as much as 80 per cent and the bank can use the saved space for future needs. This reduces the storage cost, which could be Rs 50 lakh for one terabyte, he said.

Information on the IBM Web site says that the company will begin shipping DB2 9 worldwide on July 28 with prices starting at $4,874 per processor or $165 per user (minimum of five users) for DB2 9 Express.

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