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Last week IBM announced the zEnterprise with its new integrated IBMPOWER7 and IBM System x blades environments. This provides users with the ability to run traditional mainframe applications alongside any UNIX and Intel based applications. These new capabilities provide a one-stop cloud environment for businesses to deploy and scale any application from any platform. . . . → Read More: New DB2 pureScale on Linux Expands DB2 Family Capabilities Within the recent zEnterprise announcement there were several exciting comments about the new query performance within the IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer. This smart system leverages the integrated platform, providing industry leading scalability for data warehouse and business intelligence capabilities. Queries that scanned entire terabytes of data that were previously avoided can now be executed . . . → Read More: Smart Analytics Optimizer with zEnterprise—Your Private Cloud The new zEnterprise IBM computer was announced last week and it can run any workload. Yes any workload! Your company can now run mainframe, UNIX and some Windows applications within the new environment. The new zEnterprise is designed with performance and capacity for large-scale consolidation of any workload. As has been done recently with consolidating . . . → Read More: True Performance within the New zEnterprise Within all database systems there are tables that hold transactions or some type of data based on time. These transactions unfortunately build up over time to handle regulatory compliance, infrequent access or support development of historical and trending reports. Within your database design, this time-based transaction data builds up quickly and managing it so the . . . → Read More: DB2 10 Temporal Tables Improve Performance IBM’s DB2 10 beta testing continues. Earlier this year in April, Roger Miller and I did a webcast that highlighted the functions and features within the new DB2 10 for z/OS. Now I have put all my research and all the discussion of the new DB2 10 features into a DB2 10 White Paper. . . . → Read More: DB2 10 White Paper Now Available The 2010 North American IDUG Conference and the IOD EMEA conference the last two weeks have really highlighted all the new functionality and features within DB2 10. The more you hear about these functions and features, the more you realize they are really going to save your company money right away. Justifying a DB2 upgrade . . . → Read More: Make More Money with DB2 10 Last week I wrote a blog talking about what items your shop can work on now to help prepare for DB2 10. It morphed somehow into a DB2 upgrade debate talking through many issues such as the merits of upgrades, release costs, management ideas and other opinions. DB2 upgrades are not the same in any . . . → Read More: Maximizing Your DB2 10 Upgrade ROI Whether you are currently using DB2 Version 8 or Version 9, getting ready for all the CPU efficiencies in DB2 10 is easy. Your company may not be thinking about migrating to DB2 10 for a couple of more years, but DB2 10 is going to get huge industry wide support once the cost savings . . . → Read More: Getting Ready for DB2 10: The Competitive Advantage It seems that last week’s blog struck a chord with many readers. Many people commented on how their management is increasingly out of touch with the mainframe. Also, comments also stated that the System Z environment is really processing almost all of the transactions in their company and how all the Windows platform systems continue . . . → Read More: Saving Money and the Planet with the Most Open System – System Z Within the recent IBM Z Summit road show, there were several presentations detailing the mainframe platform advantages over UNIX and Windows platforms such as the lowest total cost of ownership, the best availability and unparalleled scalability. These presentations cut through the rumors with detailed facts and figures of the different platform configurations. Download these presentations . . . → Read More: Reminding Management of the Advantages of System Z |
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