DB2 12 and Other Technology Updates from the Silicon Valley Lab

Last week I was one of a few Gold Consultants who was invited to attend IBM’s System z Software Technical Sales Boot Camp at the Silicon Valley Lab. This event has many presentations highlighting IBM’s new technology and technology that is being developed. It is also a great time to catch up with other Gold . . . → Read More: DB2 12 and Other Technology Updates from the Silicon Valley Lab

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

IBM Big SQL Interface Out-Performs the Others

At the recent Insight and IDUG conferences IBM talked about its many new software products for modern corporation information management. These new products handle the constant flow of inexhaustible big data from new data resources like social data from Facebook, Twitter and other sources; location or motion data from the Internet of things, phones or . . . → Read More: IBM Big SQL Interface Out-Performs the Others

INSIGHT Conference Trip Report

The IBM Insight Conference has just completed. There were several major software, partnership, and direction announcements. All of these announcements were crowded into a very busy technical conference of presentations by IBM, third party software vendors, IBM business partners, and industry consultants who spoke about their ideas, practices and solutions.

The IBM Insight Conference sessions . . . → Read More: INSIGHT Conference Trip Report