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DB2, Big Data and Cloud Computing Webinar

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Update: Replay of the webinar is at http://channelbigdata.com/video/clouds-for-small-and-big-data

The coolest part of my job is the opportunity to work with hottest technologies. I’ve been lucky over the years to be able to pick an emerging technology that I thought was going to make an impact on IT and immerse myself in it. Right now I find myself torn between two areas that I am convinced are the game changers. When I can’t decide what to pick I do both.

Cloud computing is redefining the way IT resources are provisioned. It is a fundamental change in the way [...]

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Webinar: Easily deploy Databases in to Private Clouds

There is probably no hotter are in IT right now than Cloud Computing. The allure of lower costs and higher agility is simply too hard to ignore. However, one can nto have a conversation about Cloud Computing without encountering concerns about security and loss of control by the IT management. It is these concerns that are driving a great deal of interest in private clouds. Unlike public clouds like Amazon Web Services and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise which are sharing resources between all of the customers, private clouds allow IT organizations to create shared resource pools comfortably located behind corporate firewalls [...]

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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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Next version of DB2 goes for the cloud in Japan

Last week I blogged about the early experience program for the next version of DB2 that lets people experience the next version of IBM DB2 database without having to find a server, install and patch operating system or even install DB2. This is possible through the magic of Cloud Computing. In this post I talked about how we greatly improved the overall experience of the program for participants in Europe and Asia. One of the great advantages of running things in the cloud is that you get to decide where you want to place your server. For example, you can decide that [...]

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Alpha 4 of the next version of DB2 quietly slips out in to the wild

A couple of weeks ago we released Alpha 4 of the next version of DB2 without much fanfare, pump or ceremony. Why so quietly? Is there no interesting new functionality that IBM would want to know about? is the quality not there yet? Not at all. The upcoming version of DB2 is bristling with some really cool functions and despite the “Alpha” designation the code seems to be very stable. [...]

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