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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If I had a nickel for every time I heard people mention Hadoop or Map/Reduce in the same sentence with Cloud Computing, well … I would have a lot of nickels. If you are not familiar with Hadoop, the best way to understand what it does is to think of it as a method or a programming model for executing complex compute jobs on very large clusters of computers. These clusters can comprise hundreds and, sometimes, thousands of machines. What Hadoop does is break, or Map, these complex jobs in to much more manageable tasks that are distributed to run [...] IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a hardware based appliance with a catalog of IBM middleware that can be easily deployed on to private cloud infrastructure. Version 1.1 can now deploy complete application infrastructure that includes WebSphere Application server clusters and DB2 Enterprise database servers. The next DB2Night Show episode on Friday December 4 (10am Central) will be a no holds barred comparison of the IBM DB2 Express-C and Microsoft SQL Server Express and we will throw in Oracle XE for good measure. We will also talk about Cloud Computing and its impact on database professionals. This is a must see episode so register now. Removing CAPEX (capital expense) as an impediment to ITs ability to proceed with new projects will, in my opinion, will allow IT organizations to be more responsive to the needs of the business. It is for that reason, I think every DBA should become the champions of Cloud Computing in their organizations and help their companies focus their IT resources on their core competencies like running and maintaining robust, scalable and high performing database infrastructure) instead of focusing on acquiring data center capacity. |
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