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Cloud Databases from Amazon and Google buckle under pressure

There is an interesting article out on the Australian ITNews. This article is the follow on to the original article that talks about the research a that Anna Liu, associate professor in services engineering at the school of computer science and engineering at the University of NSW (UNSW) conducted on the behaviour of Amazon EC2, Google AppEngine and Microsoft Azzure under stress. Overall, the picture does not look very good for any of these cloud computing platforms with query response times varrying by as much as 20 times depending on the time of day the service was accessed. 

What both articles [...]

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Need a reason to go to Rome? Check out IDUG Europe Advanced Agenda

The next International DB2 User Group conference will be held in the Eternal City, Rome Italy. If you have never been to Rome, you must go and if you have been there before you know you have to return. And what better reason than to attend IDUG Europe and to learn your DB2 skills from the experts and network with your colleagues. Check out this Advance Program for this conference.

Build your own personal itinerary right on the site and make sure to include session F02 How Cloud Computing will Save DBA Jobs. I will be presenting this session on [...]

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The Great Cloud Computing Deception

“The Great Cloud Computing Deception” is what I wanted to call the webinar that we (IBM) will be doing on July 28 jointly with xkoto. But since we wanted to be civil we settled on a more politically correct “Scalability in the Cloud: Fact or Fiction?” for a title. Come register for this free webinar by xkoto and IBM. it will be time well spent. [...]

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On Cloud Computing and databases

I recently had an article on Cloud Computing and DB2 published in the IDUG Solutions Journal. If you are interested in the subject, give it a read and let me know what you think. [...]

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DB2 is now available on the IBM Developer Cloud … still free

IBM is putting major muscle behind its Cloud Computing initiative. In June, IBM announced a new Cloud Computing offering for enterprise developers called IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud. Rolls off your tongue, doesn’t it.

At this point in time this service is in Technology Preview stage. This is both good and bad. Let’s get the bad part out of the way first; Technology Preview means it is not yet available  for wide use and adoption. As a matter of fact, at this time Technology preview program is open to customers in the United States. The [...]

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