When we wrote the tag line for DB2 Express-C“Free to build, deploy, distribute … no limits” we meant every word of it. But, it seems there are quite a few skeptics out there and questions like “how big can a server be” and “can it be a virtual server” keep coming up.
DB2 Express-C can be deployed on a server of any size. This applies to amount of memory, number of processor cores and amount of storage. If you have your hands on a server with half a terabyte of memory and 64 processor cores with a petabyte [...]
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When a database person mentions storage, images of cabinets full of disk drives and cables come to mind. But, since in my recent post I promised to talk about cloud computing I figured I’d talk about a different kind of storage. I am talking about storage that you can’t see or touch; I am talking about storage in the cloud. When Amazon (the people that sell us books and CDs) launched their web services AWS, S3 was one of the first services to go online. S3 stands for “Simple Storage Service”. Amazon built out a very significant IT [...]
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