(Willie Favero) IBM has an excellent webcast scheduled in a few weeks.

(Dipak K. Pal) This four-part tutorial series describes a Salesforce federated single sign-on solution using WebSphere DataPower as an identity provider. Part 2 describes how to implement an identity provider initiated single sign-on to Salesforce using an encrypted and signed SAML assertion.

(Ember Crooks) I recently ran into a couple of db2look problems for different clients, and thought I’d share them in case someone else runs into them.

(Craig S. Mullins) I found this infographic to be informative and entertaining, so I’m sharing it here for the readers of my blog. Let me know what you think… should I post more things like this in the future?

(Troy L Coleman) As a follow-on to last week’s post about hosted DB2, I’d like to tell you about this new IBM Redbook.

(Amol D. Barsagade) In the SaaS environment, data information and services are the key to customer success. HP Vertica is a critical database technology that assists customers to better manage their data in a cluster environment. This article illustrates the step-by-step approach for Vertica databas

(Willie Favero) I’m always looking for stuff to write about. Sometimes the ideas are pretty straightforward: there’s a new release of DB2, a new feature became available, or something big in DB2 land just happened.

(Narain Shishir and Gucer Vasfi) Microservices is an architecture style, in which large complex software applications are composed of one ore more microservices. Each microservice focuses on doing one task representing a small business capability.

(Craig S. Mullins) Just a brief blog post today to promote my upcoming speaking engagement at the New England DB2 User Group, in Sturbridge, MA (just outside of Boston). If you are in or around the area on June 18, 2015 be sure to stop by and participate in the meeting!

(Mark Gillis) Now and again we get a slightly panicky call from one of our clients as they attempt to execute some part of their application and it takes far longer to run than it should, or than it did the last time it was executed.