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 [...]
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If you are reading this blog you will notice that I have ads by Google and Amazon peppered throughout the blog. I am not doing this to earn revenue. If you must know, these ads bring less than $10/month. So, if you bought in to the hype that you can quit your day job and just live off blogging I suggest you adjust your expectations.
The reason I place the ads on the blog is to provide an opportunity for the vendors that support DB2 as well as authors that write about DB2 to get their stuff in [...]
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This week I am presenting at the International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference in Denver Colorado. I am presenting sessions on DB2 and Cloud Computing and sessions on building Ruby on Rails applications with DB2. I am also meeting with a number of customers. Yesterday during a meeting with one of the customers I wanted to demonstrate how DB2 customers can leverage Cloud Computing to quickly create development and test environments.
In this demo I have a production application that comprises an application server and a DB2 database server. The entire “deployment” (this is what RightScale call this collection of [...]
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Amazon announced its second entry in to the world of cloud databases. Called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, this appears to be a hosted implementation of the Hadoop framework. Hadoop, in a nutshell provides a way to analyse very large amounts of data by employing large number of processing nodes working independently. [...]
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The current economic climate is going to dramatically accelerate the adoption of the Cloud Computing. Utility computing just makes good economic sense. Most of us would not think of buying a generator to power our houses; we get our electricity from the grid. I don’t see why we should not be thinking about getting our computing capacity the same way. On the small scale, DBMS can be deployed in the Cloud very easily today and, I think, this is a perfect time to create a test instance just to get a feel for what a future may look like. And this glimpse will cost you about the same as a cup of Starbucks. [...]
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