By Lindsay Clark
Publication Date: 2025-12-08 16:53:00
IBM has topped an autumn flurry of Db2 updates with new features for its Intelligence Center console, promising to let users manage deployments of the 42-year-old database across on-prem, cloud, and containerized environments from a single place.
IBM said its unified database management console was “AI-powered” to support refreshes across high-volume monitoring pages and reduce installation time with containerized deployments. It also promises enhanced monitoring of IBM’s Db2 PureScale, a clustering technology for on-prem and cloud deployments, speeding up diagnosis and improving continuous availability.
The update is part of a string of announcements following the Db2 12.1.3 enhancements in October. It is only a little more than three years since IBM announced a cloud-first strategy for Db2. That lagged other popular relational databases, which are already widely offered as managed services by hyperscalers and specialist cloud providers.
