(David VandePol) Moving Java EE resource configurations from server to server has always been a time consuming and manual process. IBM has suggested scripting as a best practice, however creating the scripts on existing environment usually isn’t on the top of our lists, and can be very tedious on to

(Lockwood Lyon) Big data applications are here to stay. Most large IT enterprises have implemented one or more large data stores, hybrid hardware/software solutions and high-speed business analytics packages.

(Troy L Coleman) While many customers have upgraded to DB2 11, not all of them are taking full advantage of features like the DB2 Analytics Accelerator.

(Brenda Beane, David Betten, Clark Goodrich, David Herr, Catherine Moxey, Pete Siddall, Tony Sharkey, Robin Tanenbaum, Elpida Tzortzatos, Mark Wisniewski and David L Zhang) Significant performance benefits can be experienced by increasing the amount of memory assigned to various functions in the z/O

(Henrik Loeser) Recently, I wrote a Bluemix app which only utilized one of the provided runtimes (Python, node.js, Java, …). The database was external to the Bluemix environment and didn’t come out of the many offerings in the “Data and Analytics” catalog.

(Troy L Coleman) While many customers have upgraded to DB2 11, not all of them are taking full advantage of features like the DB2 Analytics Accelerator.

(Brenda Beane, David Betten, Clark Goodrich, David Herr, Catherine Moxey, Pete Siddall, Tony Sharkey, Robin Tanenbaum, Elpida Tzortzatos, Mark Wisniewski and David L Zhang) Significant performance benefits can be experienced by increasing the amount of memory assigned to various functions in the z/O

(Henrik Loeser) Recently, I wrote a Bluemix app which only utilized one of the provided runtimes (Python, node.js, Java, …). The database was external to the Bluemix environment and didn’t come out of the many offerings in the “Data and Analytics” catalog.

(Ember Crooks) IBM Insight starts in less than two weeks! You can still register and attend if you haven’t planned to already!

(Craig S. Mullins) I was recently asked the question that is the title of this blog post and I thought, hmmm, now there’s an interesting topic for my blog.