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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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. Monday 6:00 – 8:00 Meet the Experts – [...] On this blog I devote a lot of ink to things that are free. With this whole day virtual event (click here to register), not only do you get a day full of education for free, you also get $35 in Amazon Web Services credits to practice everything you learned. You attend free classes and get paid; it is a great deal. Today was the first day of the Cloud Computing Expo in New York. I’ve been trying to twitt about it as the conference progresses so if you follow me on twitter you will get snippets live as they happen. The keynote speaker today was Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com. With nearly half a million customers, Amazon Web Services is the most recognizable name when it comes to Cloud Computing. Amazon, it seems overnight, has morphed itself from a web retailer in to a key provider of IT infrastructure. So, it is no surprise that the keynote was well [...] Last week IDUG, the International DB2 User Group announced its sponsorship of “The XML Challenge”, a world wide contest for both professional and aspiring (students) programmers. I don’t want to rehash all of the things about the contest here. Just go to the contest website and read about it. There are several ways to participate. You can record a YouTube like video hopefully of doing something productive with XML and DB2 and not just playing with a bottle of Coke and some Menthos. You can submit a gadget. There is no strict definition of what a gadget is. In other words, [...] |
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