Last week I blogged about the early experience program for the next version of DB2 that lets people experience the next version of IBM DB2 database without having to find a server, install and patch operating system or even install DB2. This is possible through the magic of Cloud Computing. In this post I talked about how we greatly improved the overall experience of the program for participants in Europe and Asia. One of the great advantages of running things in the cloud is that you get to decide where you want to place your server. For example, you can decide that [...]
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A couple of weeks ago we released Alpha 4 of the next version of DB2 without much fanfare, pump or ceremony. Why so quietly? Is there no interesting new functionality that IBM would want to know about? is the quality not there yet? Not at all. The upcoming version of DB2 is bristling with some really cool functions and despite the “Alpha” designation the code seems to be very stable. [...]
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Are your application development and prototyping projects being put on hold due to budgetary constraints? Do you continually have to wait for new hardware and software to be procured and provisioned before your developers can start new projects? Are your current development and test systems sitting idle most of the time? Do you spend long cycles creating copies of your development or production environments for testing new changes and updates? If you answered yes to any of these questions, join Sal, Uri and Leon to learn more about how you can leverage cloud computing to simplify development and testing for database projects. This webinar will feature live demos and will have about 20min dedicated for your questions. [...]
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It 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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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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