| By Dave Beulke, on August 2nd, 2022 After too many virtual meetings, IDUG North American Conference 2022 in Boston was held as the first in person IDUG conference in a long time. First a big thank you and congratulation has to go out to the IDUG volunteers, Board of Directors, the Conference Planning committee, and all their conference vendor sponsors. It was . . . → Read More: IDUG Conference 2022 North America — 5 Great Themes By Dave Beulke, on August 24th, 2016 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 By Dave Beulke, on August 14th, 2014 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 By Dave Beulke, on May 29th, 2014 The International DB2 User Group (IDUG.org) conference is always great for exposing the latest DB2 Family technology news. This year was even better with everyone talking about their successes with DB2 Version 11 and the many advantages of IBM BLU acceleration and its industry leading performance. In addition to all of the DB2 information at . . . → Read More: IBM BLU Cloud: Three Reasons to Try Innovation By Dave Beulke, on April 10th, 2014 These days, flexible computing power, application functionality, and data accessibility are paramount. Having the best application is only part of winning the constant IT battle of applying technology to increase the company’s bottom line. Through cloud computing initiatives companies are hoping to reduce their infrastructure costs, especially storage costs, along with achieving a flexible CPU . . . → Read More: IBM BLU Acceleration: Five Reasons Why It’s Perfect for Your Next Cloud Project By Dave Beulke, on June 11th, 2013 Last week SalesForce.com bought Exact Target for $2.5 billion, IBM bought SoftLayer for around $2 billion, and in April Accenture committed $400 million to enhance its cloud capabilities. All of these acquisitions, along with all the other cloud providers such as Amazon, RackSpace and Service Now, are helping customer applications with cloud capabilities. Cloud computing . . . → Read More: Cloud: 12 Reasons Why the Future Forecast is Partly Cloudy By Dave Beulke, 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 types . . . → Read More: Cloud Computing: Managing Your Reliability, Availability and Scalability | |