Informix Managed Services
Expert, around-the-clock management for your Informix estate, so your databases stay fast, available, and secure while your team gets on with the business.
Challenges we solve
Informix is a capable engine, but keeping it healthy takes scarce, specialist skills. Here are the pressures we take off your plate.
Specialist skills are hard to find
Informix expertise is scarce, and losing a key DBA can leave your estate exposed. You need reliable cover without carrying the cost of a full in-house team.
Out-of-hours risk
Databases do not keep office hours. When something fails overnight or at the weekend, you need someone watching and ready to act, not an alert no one sees until Monday.
Performance creeping the wrong way
Stay on Informix, move to a newer release, or replatform entirely? Each path has trade-offs, and the wrong call is expensive to unwind.
Ageing, unsupported versions
Running an older Informix release brings security and support risk. You need a partner who keeps you patched, supported, and ready for what comes next.
What is Informix Managed Services?
Informix Managed Services gives you a dedicated UK team to look after your Informix databases day and night. We monitor, patch, tune, back up, and support your estate, so you get the stability of an expert in-house function without the cost and recruitment headache of building one.
We work the way your business works. Whether your Informix runs on-premises, on Unix or Linux, or in the cloud, we take on the routine operational load and the awkward small-hours problems, while you keep ownership and control. You always know what is running, how it is performing, and what we are doing to keep it healthy.
It is a partnership built on real Informix depth. Our team has supported Informix alongside Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Db2 for years, so we understand both the engine and the wider data estate it sits in.
Key Benefits
- 24×7 monitoring and incident response
- Patching, backups, and tested recovery handled for you
- Cover across on-premises, Unix, Linux, and cloud
- Proactive performance tuning and capacity planning
- A named UK team that knows your environment
- Clear reporting, so you always know your estate’s health
Why Claranet?
A UK team that has delivered database upgrades and migrations across mixed estates for years.
Technical capabilities
What we actually do to keep your Informix estate healthy and well-run.
Proactive monitoring
Continuous monitoring of availability, performance, replication, and storage, with alerting tuned to your thresholds so we act before your users notice.
Performance tuning
Regular review of slow SQL, indexing, storage layout, and workloads. We tune the database first, before reaching for more infrastructure and more cost.
Backup and recovery
Managed backups with tested restores, so recovery is a known quantity rather than a hope. We rehearse failover so you can be confident it works when it matters.
Patching and upgrades
We keep your Informix release patched and supported, and plan version upgrades with you to reduce risk and avoid nasty surprises.
High availability
Design and management of replication and failover, so a single component failure does not take your data offline.
Security and compliance
Access control, encryption options, and configuration hardening, aligned to your compliance obligations and reviewed as they change.
Accreditations & partnerships
A selection of the standards and partnerships that back our database services.
Ready to take the load off your team?
Let us look after the day-to-day, the out-of-hours, and the awkward problems, so your Informix estate stays healthy and your people stay focused. Tell us about your environment and we will show you how we would run it.