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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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April 21st, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Cloud Computing, DB2 | 5 comments

Lower Amazon S3 cloud storage price is good news for DB2 users

Amazon announced that they are reducing charges for their S3 cloud storage offering. The announcement boasts about a 19% percent reduction. Savings are higher as the amount of storage you use increases. Amazon S3 is not suitable as DB2 storage but it is a great place to keep backups and log archives. Lower price coupled with DB2 backup compression makes Amazon S3 an even more compelling solution for backing up DB2 databases. [...]

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November 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: DB2 | One comment

Learn to use cloud computing for building DB2 applications

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 and with [...]

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April 7th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Cloud Computing, Conferences, DB2, Learning | One comment

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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February 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Cloud Computing, DB2, Learning | Leave a comment

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 [...]

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October 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Cloud Computing, DB2, Learning | One comment
 
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