5 Data Management Predictions for 2019

Hi everyone, I am back after taking a blogging break in 2018. It was nice seeing everyone during the year at data management and Db2 conferences, user group presentations, and various other functions. During 2018, I continued to enjoy the dynamic problem solving of challenging consulting assignments. Thank you to all my clients.

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Five Data Management Predictions for 2018

Happy New Year! I hope everyone has their 2018 filled with good health, happiness and prosperity. Once again I am offering you my data management predictions for 2018. Thank you all for great support in 2017 and countless emails regarding my conference, user group presentations and blogs last year.

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3 Consideration for Enjoying the Data Lake

With all the outside activities with friends and family, summer vacations are always wonderful. Being outside at the lake enjoying the warm weather and cooling off in the lake are a wonderfully relaxing great times. This is the safe, content image that everyone thinks about when discussing the new “Data Lake” concept. Unfortunately, there are . . . → Read More: 3 Consideration for Enjoying the Data Lake

Helping Millennials Understand the Mainframe

Being a consultant specializing on performance issues exposes me to a wide variety and types of systems and platforms. Focusing on performance issues on a variety of platforms, cloud, distributed, and mainframe, I’ve realized they all have wonderful uniqueness and plenty of issues to keep me mystified, curious, and entertained. It is always interesting to . . . → Read More: Helping Millennials Understand the Mainframe

Five Data Management Trends for 2016

I want to thank all my readers for their support and comments this year. It has been a great year speaking at many of the user group meetings and, as always, a pleasure and honor working/hearing from all of you throughout the year. I believe information technology is going through another transformation which will especially . . . → Read More: Five Data Management Trends for 2016

5 Important Ideas from IBM Insight Conference

The IBM Insight conference was last week and on the long flight home I was thinking how this year’s conference was different from previous years’ events. Here are my five big takeaways from this year’s conference.

There is way too much open source. With open source the landscape of file managers, DBMS, and other products . . . → Read More: 5 Important Ideas from IBM Insight Conference

z/13 IBM’s New Mainframe Built for the Mobile, Cloud and Analytic Future

On January 13th IBM unveiled its new mainframe, the z/13. IBM mainframe System z’s world-leading reliability, availability, and scalability, coupled with its security and virtualization capabilities are needed more than ever as mobile applications take over as the most prominent and important corporate workload. Today’s corporations are embracing mobile workloads that grow at a much . . . → Read More: z/13 IBM’s New Mainframe Built for the Mobile, Cloud and Analytic Future

Five Data Management Trends for 2015

‘Tis the holiday season, and I want to thank all my readers for their comments and encouragement. It has been a pleasure and honor working/hearing from all of you. I enjoy the challenges of data management too much, and my curious nature has me continuing to explore and write about all its aspects. Data management . . . → Read More: Five Data Management Trends for 2015

Five Areas to Verify to Stay Safe in Your Cloud

There are a number of considerations for every company as they begin to conquer their new cloud projects, including several technology challenges such as data security, data placement segregation, and data access coordination to name a few. There are several other areas that can bring the business to struggle with any type of cloud project, . . . → Read More: Five Areas to Verify to Stay Safe in Your Cloud

Apple and IBM Partnership to Leverage BLUMix Synergies

The recent partnership between IBM and Apple combines the expertise of the enterprise and user-friendly mobile application devices. The partnership takes advantage of the expertise of both companies along with leveraging the new IBM BLUMix Cloud infrastructure, the various software platforms and package choices, and many application development options offered. Within the new BLUMix cloud . . . → Read More: Apple and IBM Partnership to Leverage BLUMix Synergies