Reliability, Availability, and Scalability Lessons for Holiday Peak Processing

Operational performance is always paramount for applications, websites, and order systems during the busy Christmas holiday shopping season. Keeping holiday peak processing going with good performance is a pains-taking ordeal. Even with the best laid plans of continuous improvement builds, application code freezes, massive end-to-end testing, and continuous monitoring of systems application and programs fail, . . . → Read More: Reliability, Availability, and Scalability Lessons for Holiday Peak Processing

Analytics Lessons from the Election

I have been doing analytical systems for many years, starting with my first data warehouse database design and application for E F Hutton in 1988. This election followed many analytics lessons that I have learned and experienced with several analytical data warehouse projects over the years.

First, don’t believe the early estimates or the first . . . → Read More: Analytics Lessons from the Election

5 Important Ideas from IBM World of Watson Conference

The rebranded IBM Insight conference (now the World of Watson conference) was last week. This year’s conference was noticeably improved with a wide variety of tried and true DB2 z/OS and DB2 LUW presentations along with new Spark, innovative data management techniques, big data activities, embedded technology, and industry specific solutions for the more than . . . → Read More: 5 Important Ideas from IBM World of Watson Conference

Process to Justify an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Part 4

Every mainframe DB2 shop should investigate reducing their costs by offloading workload to an IDAA appliance. By following the steps in this blog series, you can understand how to evaluate and justify an IDAA appliance for your existing environment workloads at no cost. After investigating my daily SQL workload, I discovered millions of mainframe CPU . . . → Read More: Process to Justify an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Part 4

Process to Justify an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Part 3

Every mainframe DB2 shop should investigate reducing their costs by offloading workload to an IDAA appliance. By investing in an IDAA appliance and sending your SQL workloads to it, you can speed up your processing without making any application changes. After investigating my daily SQL workload, I discovered millions of mainframe CPU MIPS that could . . . → Read More: Process to Justify an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Part 3

Process to Justify an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Part 2

The benefits of having an IDAA appliance is something that every mainframe DB2 shop should investigate. Investigating and justifying an IDAA appliance can be done at no cost. In the previous blog, I talked about the set up steps for getting an IDAA Virtual Server configured and deployed within your environment.

In this blog, . . . → Read More: Process to Justify an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Part 2

Process to Justify an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Part 1

Unbelievably, the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) has been available for many years, helping all types of customers improve overall processing, especially their analytical processing.

Many companies do not have an IDAA appliance helping their DB2 for z/OS environments. Since most every shop’s processing would benefit tremendously from an IDAA appliance, every company needs to . . . → Read More: Process to Justify an IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) Part 1

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

Cubicle Humor

Over the years I have seen some great posters and interesting items in client cubicles. Below is an example of one.

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Dave Beulke is a system strategist, application architect, and performance expert specializing in Big Data, data warehouses, and high performance internet business . . . → Read More: Cubicle Humor

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