As the open source faithful have gathered in Portland for the annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) Canonical, the company behind an ever popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, announced that it has paired up the latest version of the free DB2 Express-C v9.7 with the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to deliver a free enterprise-grade cloud database appliance.
Not that kind of an appliance
Database appliances, especially for data warehousing, are all the rage. These database appliances deliver a package of hardware and database software that are put together and optimized by the DBMS vendor. Most of [...]
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If you have ever seen Steve Jobs do one of his keynotes, then you know that the last thing you will ever want to do is to follow him with your presentation. And if you have to present on the same day he will be talking about an iPhone or, lord forbid an iPad, you are positively doomed. Well wouldn’t you know it, today, when I had a chance to present a webinar on leveraging the cloud for building and testing database applications, the icon in the black turtleneck decided to do a little press action around the [...]
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IBM is running a 3-day virtual event for developers focusing on Cloud Computing. I will be presenting a session on Prototyping and Developing Database Applications in the Cloud on Thursday April 8 at 2:30 EST.
Development and Test has emerged as the leading use case for cloud computing because it delivers maximum benefit with minimal risk compared to other cloud computing use cases. When it comes to DB2, we have it fully cloud enabled. I plan to talk about the benefits and the challenges of leveraging the cloud and practical approaches on how to get started right away [...]
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It is hard to believe but it has been a year since we first made DB2 available on the Amazon EC2 cloud. In Cloud Computing this is an eternity. It has been quite the ride. As I look back at the success that DB2 has enjoyed on the Amazon EC2 cloud I am amazed as just wrong the critics were when we first started. Of all of the Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that IBM has made available DB2 is the the one that people purchase the most. As a matter of fact, more than all of the other [...]
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If I had a nickel for every time I heard people mention Hadoop or Map/Reduce in the same sentence with Cloud Computing, well … I would have a lot of nickels. If you are not familiar with Hadoop, the best way to understand what it does is to think of it as a method or a programming model for executing complex compute jobs on very large clusters of computers. These clusters can comprise hundreds and, sometimes, thousands of machines. What Hadoop does is break, or Map, these complex jobs in to much more manageable tasks that are distributed [...]
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