| By Dave Beulke, on January 10th, 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. For 2018, I will continue to . . . → Read More: Five Data Management Predictions for 2018 By Dave Beulke, on November 2nd, 2016 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 By Dave Beulke, on June 26th, 2014 Architecture matters and storage architecture is being optimized from many different directions to make it faster and cheaper, as detailed in the recent Baron’s article “Tech Vets Vie for New Storage Supremacy.” The article about four companies that are trying to develop the next generation of computing storage to be cheaper from its current $3.00 . . . → Read More: 3 Critical Storage Performance Architecture Considerations By Dave Beulke, on June 19th, 2014 Mobile phone growth, sensor data recording, and social media updates feed big data into our systems. Whether your company likes it or not, startups and the competition are integrating big data and analytics into every aspect of their marketing, products, and operations. Big data system performance system and high-speed database designs have never been as . . . → Read More: 3 Important Big Data Design Points By Dave Beulke, on June 5th, 2014 The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference is always great for talking with my long time DB2 friends, DB2 experts who have been working with systems for decades, and other colleagues who know the truth about IT politics, costs, and the real problems we deal with on a daily basis. The following were . . . → Read More: IDUG Conference – 4 Reasons Why It’s Extremely Valuable By Dave Beulke, on September 27th, 2010 Making the World Go Round with DB2 2005 DB2 Magazine article shows how DB2 supports closer integration open standards that support relational and XML storage and retrieval. | |