(Connie Cradick) Performance management is becoming more and more important in IT environments. Did you ever wonder why your Web transactions are not completing fast enough? What if I told you that you can identify how much time each middleware application uses when it processes the transaction?

(Keys Botzum, Bill Hines, Paul Ilechko and Messaoud Benantar) The advanced authentication features in IBM WebSphere Application Server V6 support a more flexible authentication model with a new highly customizable authentication framework that’s based on – and extends – Java Authentication and Autho

(Martin LaMonica) Start-up ActiveGrid has released an update to its toolset for building business applications with open-source software, adding support for IBM’s newly introduced free DB2 database.

(Willie Favero) Last Tuesday, I posted a short blurb about the System z9 Integrated Information Processor, or what we are more affectionately referring to as the zIIP specialty engine. This installment of my blog will have just a little more detail.

(Vincent McBurney) There is a lot of focus on the performance improvement techniques for large jobs, but one of the important tips is how making smaller jobs faster can make larger jobs faster.

Today’s global economy drives high demands for IT. You’re expected to manage new and growing workloads while maintaining operational costs—and without sacrificing service levels to users. What’s required is an efficient and flexible database server to manage multiple complex workloads, including OLT

(Paul Hill and Chris Chilcott) Relational database management systems (RDBMS) are good at storing and retrieving structured data. SQL provides mature mechanisms for defining and executing a search on structured data but performs poorly on data that is not strongly typed or is not easily indexed (for

(Clint Boulton) When MySQL began offering its database under an open source license, some software experts predicted the startup would start a trend. Turns out they were right.

(Chris Eaton) How many people out there have enjoyed the hunt for the deadlock culprits? If you are very analytical and enjoy a good murder mystery then perhaps you enjoy tracking down the two lines of application code that caused a deadlock that you wanted to resolve. For those that have not had th

(Dirk Fechner, Samuel Poon and Shan Chen) Today applications are often designed for international use. These applications may be required to cope with character strings in different languages. Unicode has been established as a language-independent standard for the representation of characters.