(Brice Dunwoodie) IBM announces a new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) portfolio touting over 160 vertical content applications, features for regulatory compliance, and broad enterprise information repository integration.

(Robert Catterall) Your article in the DB2 Magazine about DB2 platform differences was very good. The one thing missing was how the DBA roles differ between Linux, Unix, and Windows (LUW) and the mainframe. In the LUW platform, the DBA does everything; in the mainframe environment, the roles are sep

(Paul McDougall) IBM will expand its data-integration product line through a $1.1 billion acquisition of Ascential Software Corp., the company said Monday. Under the deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions, IBM will pay $18.50 per share for all outstanding sha

This tutorial provides a guided tour through the WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition. It starts with an overview of the product that will focus on its main features. The intent is to give you enough information to understand the subsequent steps. Then, it describes the installation and

(Michael Gonzales) When it comes to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW), the marketing-spin factory spews out an endless supply of new names and concepts: Real-time data warehousing, near real-time data warehousing, zero-latency warehousing, and active data warehousing (ADW).

(Martin Fuerderer) Find out how to take advantage of the two new backup and restore features of IBM Informix Dynamic Server, Version 10.0. External Backup and Restore (EBR) is supported for setting up a High-availability Data Replication (HDR) server pair using either ON-Bar or ontape. Additionally,

(Robert Dick and Kristi Schultz) Lately, there’s been a lot of information about virtualization, automation and utility frameworks in the technology news. Some of it is buzzword associations with current products and technologies, and some of it is strategic direction and vaporware promises. But som

(Michael H. Alcorn and Pat Bates) When an Internet-media company needed to step up to the next level of scalability and performance for its click stream analysis work­loads, a lot was at stake. Before putting any new configurations into production, the client needed to see a Proof of Concept (POC) s

(Mike Ebbers, Brenda Beane, Dave Bellion, Nick Dyke, Andrew Hartman, Theodor Kuebler, Veng Ly, Mike Mardis, Bala Prabahar and Michael Thelosan) In the fast-moving business environment of today, there is a need for more and better business information. Data warehousing and business intelligence (BI)

(John Aschoff) With the release of IBM WebSphere Information Integrator 8.2, IBM delivered a major advancement in database replication through a function called queue replication, or Q replication. The new replication architecture has emerged from the need for high performance: high transaction volu