Follow me on TwitterIt 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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On Monday February 8th, without much pomp or ceremony IBM announced the new POWER7 microprocessor architecture and the 4 new SYSTEM p servers that utilize the new architecture. POWER7 is the next step in the IBM POWER roadmap and as far as next steps go it is a very significant one. I don’t intend to do a blow by blow account of everything that is new in POWER7 and what it really means. For those that are interested, I recommend attending one of the POWER 7 launch events/webcasts. If you are interested in databases (why else would you read this blog), [...] “Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more” Jonathan Schwartz – Best Leader no more These are the parting words of Jonathan Schwartz on Twitter. No multi-page letter like Scott McNealy did when he resined this post. I am constantly amazed at just how much the social media phenomenon has changed the corporate attitude in just a couple of years. I see it reflected greatly in our own efforts to get everyone to partake in the goodness that is DB2. We have embraced social media out of [...] This week we were at Lotusphere 2010 demonstrating DB2 Express-C for Lotus Foundations. One of the giveaways we had was a free book on DB2 Express-C. The book proved top be very popular and we ran out very quickly. I also got a lot of questions from people who did not have an opportunity to go to Lotusphere if there was a way to get a copy of the book. My answer is “absolutely, as long as you don’t mind getting it in an electronic form”. A real paper book that you can flip through is always nice but in [...] In the past year we have spent a lot of effort putting DB2 on the cloud and we achieved absolutely fantastic results. Db2 has proven to be a hit on both the Amazon cloud, on RightScale and on the IBM Developer Cloud. But all this focus on running applications on the rented IT infrastructure in the cloud does not mean we don’t care about people who want to have their own IT equipment. The free DB2 Express-C is a good fit for small and medium business and an even better fit for remote offices of very large enterprises. But, let’s [...] |
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