(Vijay Bhadriraju) As enterprises embark on their journey to the cloud, one common question arises: How do we move our on-premises (cloud-enabled) IBM WebSphere applications from our data centers to the cloud using our existing WebSphere skills and tools?

(Martin) 100% of our studio audience learned something!Adrian gave many tuning and management tips for distributed and mobile apps.

(Dave Beulke) The benefits of having an IDAA appliance is something that every mainframe DB2 shop should investigate. Investigating and justifying an IDAA appliance can be done at no cost.

IBM Insight, the premiere data, analytics and cognitive IBM conference, is now part of IBM World of Watson 2016 to be held at Las Vegas from October 24-27. This year attendees will be able to experience first-hand a world of cognitive capabilities that IBM has been at the forefront of.

(Troy L Coleman) Last month I wrote about the trend of increasing the amount of real storage when configuring new mainframe systems. DB2 12 (which is set for delivery in the fourth quarter of 2016) features many new performance improvements that are designed to take advantage of available real stora

(Robert Catterall) Not long ago, I was reviewing an organization’s production DB2 for z/OS environment, and I saw something I very much like to see: a REALLY BIG buffer pool configuration. In fact, it was the biggest buffer pool configuration I’d ever seen for a single DB2 subsystem: 162 GB (that’s

(Scott) 100% of our audience learned something! What is the future of DB2? How will your career change? Has IBM moved your cheese? DB2 engine technology is invading many of IBM’s software and cloud offerings.

(Andre Tost and Kyle Schlosser) To transition an IT environment to the cloud, enterprises are using container technology, primarily Docker containers. This approach helps to streamline resource consumption and further automate operational processes.

(Troy L Coleman) The application development landscape on the mainframe — which for me is really z/OS — continues to evolve. Now businesses that are moving to cloud and mobile applications use not only Java, but also Perl, PHP, Python, R and TCL.

(Vinay Kumar Bommana) “One of the primary mechanisms used by DB2 to ensure data consistency and recoverability is transactional logging.