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The announcement last week of IBM’s new mainframe server z14 discusses how the new hardware brings more capacity and flexibility to computing than ever before. The new z14 mainframe server is a technology behemoth and has so many features that it takes a huge amount of documentation that details the specifics. Being the nerd that . . . → Read More: New z14 IBM’s Mainframe Server Over the years, I have developed many of my security practices and used many of the government security guidelines to perform security audits in client environments. The combination of the government guidelines and my experience helps me uncover and secure the desired client’s systems and applications against ever-changing hacker attack points. One of the resources . . . → Read More: DB2 LUW Security: More Ways to Secure your System Recently on the REDDIT DB2 forum someone raised a question (found here) about DB2’s future in application development. The question and answers talked about the database industry and the reason DB2 is positioned in the upper right quadrant in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrants found here. To address some of those concerns, here . . . → Read More: Five Ways to Make your DB2 Data Delicious Here is my trip report from the annual International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference held last week. The event was great because of the technical, real world, pragmatic, and easy-to-understand content, especially from the user speakers. The IBMers, consultants, and vendors also provided great material to help make everyone’s DB2 systems and applications perform better . . . → Read More: IDUG DB2 Trip Report Tuning DB2 LUW systems, databases, and applications can be sometimes a long drawn out research effort requiring examination of every variable involved. Sometimes the key to the performance is examining the DB2 LUW system installation, its configuration, and the database configuration. This why I call this blog “DB2 Install Next Steps” because if the SYSADMIN . . . → Read More: DB2 Install Next Steps: Part 1 Last month IBM provided more details about their new Watson Machine Learning Initiatives starting with System z (WMLz). Beginning a new initiative with the mainframe platform is an interesting move for IBM. The new WMLz offerings: Introduce an end-to-end enterprise machine-learning platform. Extracting core machine learning technology from IBM Watson, IBM is offering a new . . . → Read More: IBM Announces Machine Learning on System z Last week I was one of a few Gold Consultants who was invited to attend IBM’s System z Software Technical Sales Boot Camp at the Silicon Valley Lab. This event has many presentations highlighting IBM’s new technology and technology that is being developed. It is also a great time to catch up with other Gold . . . → Read More: DB2 12 and Other Technology Updates from the Silicon Valley Lab We have a new president in America. Some say he is bullying companies to build their factories in the USA, at the same time communist leaders Vladimir Putin in Russia and Xi Jinping in China are both saying they want to be globalists. While the terrible human rights and censorship issues from the communist countries . . . → Read More: Data Management in a Paradoxical World I want to thank all my readers for their support and comments this past year. It is your comments and emails that keep me writing, so please keep them coming in the New Year. Data management trends and predictions are always interesting since they are formed from the research, experience, and topics that impact, touch, . . . → Read More: Five Data Management Trends and Predictions for 2017 In the last blog (found here), I talked about the first five of the top 10 ways that can help make your systems bulletproof for holiday processing for reliability, availability, and scalability demands. This week I continue with reliability, availability, and scalability topics from my technology geeky background point of view. The next five . . . → Read More: Black Friday Lessons |    | ||
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