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By admin, on March 6th, 2012 The world witnessed the Microsoft Azure cloud outage earlier this week documented in this eWeek article on cloud computing , the outage was attributed to human error associated with leap year settings. Problems and changes within any infrastructure are inevitable, even within cloud computing infrastructure.
Your company applications can leverage many different . . . → Read More: Cloud Computing: Managing Your Reliability, Availability and Scalability
By admin, on February 28th, 2012 Would you start a trek through a jungle without a map or GPS? Many companies are attempting content analytics with their new big data, petabytes of data generated from the web, mobile devices and other connections without a plan. These companies are trying to leverage their big data, but getting lost in billions of rows . . . → Read More: Content Analytics: Four Techniques to Make Your Big Data Project a Success
By admin, on February 21st, 2012 Organizational demands for application database availability, reliability and performance for petabytes of big data and 100s of billions of rows of information continue to rise. These trends are ramping up at a faster rate as web, mobile, social, unstructured and streaming transaction and analytical data flood the corporate data landscape. Unfortunately, the data administration team . . . → Read More: Three Ideas to Maintain Database Availability and Performance
By admin, on February 14th, 2012 Last week I discussed the IDAA session at the recent IBM’s System z Software Technical Sales Boot Camp at the Silicone Valley Lab I attended. Other sessions at the event detailed DB2 10 for z/OS and successful migrations. IBM showed charts showing the migration of DB2 customers and demonstrating that the DB2 10 adoption is . . . → Read More: DB2 10: Three Things to Guarantee Your Migration Success
By admin, on February 7th, 2012 IBM’s System z Software Technical Sales Boot Camp at Silicon Valley Lab was last week and I was one of the few Gold Consultants who was invited to attend. This event highlights IBM’s new technology features for the IBM sales and services teams. The event presents all type of information from software enhancements, scheduled updates . . . → Read More: Speed-of-Thought Data Warehouse Analytics
By admin, on January 31st, 2012 Thanks for all the emails about the DB2 10 and z/OS discussion. It’s always nice to hear the many points of view on a topic. The most interesting email I received was “Why aren’t there any DB2 10 or big z/OS systems in Italy?” I think there are z/OS and probably some DB2 10 systems . . . → Read More: Three Reasons DB2 and z/OS Are Key to Success in IT in 2012
By admin, on January 24th, 2012 The discussion of the z/OS platform and specifically the value of DB2 10 is very interesting. As I work with clients on both the distributed and the z/OS platforms, the z/OS value is extending its use within the enterprise. Based on these cost of z/OS and the value of DB2 10 discussion, I offer up . . . → Read More: DB2 10 for z/OS: Value for Years to Come
By admin, on January 17th, 2012 2012 has kicked off with a vengeance and everybody is back in the office and wants everything done right now. The crowded calendar continues and people want your DB2 migration to DB2 10 schedule as soon as possible. There is no time to get your existing applications and SQL improved before your DB2 migration, but . . . → Read More: Three Areas to Examine Before Your DB2 Migration to DB2 10
By admin, on January 10th, 2012 Thanks again for all the greetings and comments over the holidays, I really appreciate it. Best wishes and success to everyone this New Year 2012.
When we left off last year I was writing about the DB2 business analytics that could help your management understand the growth and hard work your DB2 systems and applications . . . → Read More: Business Analytics: Three Business Areas to Help Your Company’s Bottom Line
By admin, on December 20th, 2011 Thanks for all the comments this last week and throughout the year. I really appreciate it. The comments this week were related to additional business analytics areas that need to be communicated to management. Management needs to be aware of business analytics on maintenance activities, security/compliance efforts and the number of end-users helping make profits . . . → Read More: Analytics Is the Answer: Three More Business Analytics Areas Needed for Management
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