(Dino Quintero, Puneet Chaudhary, Brian Herr, Steven Normann, Marcelo Ramos, Richard Rosenthal, Robert Simon, Marian Tomescu and Richard Wale) This IBM Redpaper publication describes IBM Spectrum Scale, which is a scalable, high-performance data and file management solution, built on proven IBM Gene

(Klaas) EVERYBODY (100%) in our audience learned something! John did an excellent job on explaining what disk and tape virtualization is. Do you want to know what that is?

(Craig S. Mullins) All performance problems are caused by change. Now as regular readers know, normally I avoid all-encompassing terms like all, always, none and never, but in this case, all is the appropriate term. If your DB2 environment is humming along and things are performing well, then the on

(Lockwood Lyon) After a successful big data application moves to production, a funny thing happens; the data gets bigger! It is common to analyze a large data store by comparing different time periods and looking for trends.

(Ember Crooks) These statements calculates the buffer pool hit ratio for both BLU and non-BLU activity. This post includes three SQLs – for calculating at the database, bufferpool, and tablespace level. The separate BLU calculations are not yet included in sysibadm.bp_hitratio as of the writing of t

(Peter Abrahams) Why are so few websites, so few web applications and so little web content accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities and older people? It does not really matter how you measure it, the level of compliance is woefully below 100 percent.

(Neil Casey, Andy Emmett and Rufus Russell) This IBM Redbooks Solution Guide describes the IBM MQ Appliance M2000, an application connectivity option that combines secure, reliable IBM MQ messaging with the simplicity and low overall costs of a hardware appliance.

(Troy L Coleman) It was exciting to attend the recent IBM Insight 2015 conference — especially now that I’m an IBM employee. Last month I was hired as a DB2 advisor for z/OS, and in that role, I’ll help DB2 for z/OS customers plan their migrations and educate them on new DB2 features and other tech

(Robert H. Grant and Slava Zheltonogov) Learn how to use the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Application Toolkit to create basic services in IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) and to implement error handling.

(Lockwood Lyon) Interestingly, some organizations consider implementing their first big data application accessing production source systems, bypassing non-production altogether.