Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates

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.

Nonetheless, Big Blue is striving to catch up. The 12 ...