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 [...]
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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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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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Cloud Computing is the hottest IT subject today. We are runnign a free webinar on the subject of Cloud Computing and its implications on DB2 professionals. The webinar is on March 25 at 1pm Eastern and replays will be avaiulable but you must register. [...]
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