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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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 [...]
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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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If you are reading this post on FreeDB2.com, take a look to the right of this text and you will see a badge for IDUG Symposium in Bangalore India. It will be held at the Hotel Le Meridien August 21-23, 2008. For those of you in India, this promises to be a great event. And you are not from India, think of this as a great excuse to go to India. There will be a full day of classes and two days of sessions on all things DB2. The speaker line up is great (myself excluded) and IDUG [...]
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