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Give DB2 on the Cloud a try

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 products combined. [...]

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Is Hadoop = Cloud Computing?

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 to run [...]

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Cloud Computing in a purple box … with DB2 on it

IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a hardware based appliance with a catalog of IBM middleware that can be easily deployed on to private cloud infrastructure. Version 1.1 can now deploy complete application infrastructure that includes WebSphere Application server clusters and DB2 Enterprise database servers.

Free DB2 vs Microsoft SQL Server and Talking up Cloud on the DB2Night Show

The next DB2Night Show episode on Friday December 4 (10am Central) will be a no holds barred comparison of the IBM DB2 Express-C and Microsoft SQL Server Express and we will throw in Oracle XE for good measure. We will also talk about Cloud Computing and its impact on database professionals. This is a must see episode so register now.

Spreading the word about DB2 on the Cloud

Every year around this time of the year great masses of IT people come to the Mandalay Bay Hotel And Conference center to attend IBM’s Information On Demand (IOD) Conference. It is a good place to learn the latest and greatest and to network. This year is the first year we have a significant Cloud Computing content on the agenda at the conference. If you are at the conference you really need to check it out.
If your interest is in DB2 on the Cloud, I will be doing these sessions (in chronological order):

Monday 6:00 – 8:00 Meet the Experts – [...]

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