Cloud Computing | BigDataOnCloud + FreeDB2

Sneak a peek at the DB2 future if you are at IDUG in Anaheim

There is a discussion thread on LinkedIN IDUG NA group with a number of people chiming in about how many IDUG (International DB2 User Group) events they’ve participated in. Phil Granger thinks he has done 42. I have had my share of IDUG events but I don’t think I am going to beat Phil’s record. I did present at many IDUG events (well over 20 I think) and each one was a rewarding experience for me as both presenter but even more so as an attendee. I am always fascinated by the depth of the technical content that is exchanged [...]

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Cloud killed Siebel

It is strange to be writing this post right after the biggest outage in the cloud computing history. Outage or not, I feel the march to the cloud is all but unstoppable. Not only is this outage not going to deter more people to come to the cloud, it will, in my humble opinion, accelerate cloud computing momentum. Even though the outage was confined to a single region of the Amazon EC2 cloud, it was, and still is, at the top of the news and the world at large can finally understand just how much workload has already moved to [...]

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Cloud crash has a silver lining

If you are at all interested in cloud computing you would have by now no doubt heard that this has been a dark day in the world of Cloud Computing today. Something has gone terribly wrong in the networking in the Amazon US-East-1 region. That caused storage subsystems to go on the fritz and the rest as they say is history. Some of the very prominent web properties have been down and the volume of chatter on the subject has been deafening. I had to turn the sound on my TweetDeck off a I could no longer stand to hear [...]

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WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance - A Vending Machine for IT

Raising the bar for enterprise IT

There is no doubt that cloud computing has put a lot of pressure on IT organizations to find a way to reduce costs and, more important, bring agility to business processes. Line of business users are increasingly bringing expectations from their consumer experiences to the front door of IT. The thinking is that if it takes a few minutes to get a Gmail account and it is free, why does it take weeks to get an Exchange account on a corporate email system? In an organization of any size, it takes weeks if not [...]

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