(Sherif Sakr) Although Hadoop is often thought of as the one-size-fits-all solution for big data processing problems, the project is limited in its ability to manage large-scale graph processing, stream processing, and scalable processing of structured data.

(Kent Milligan) With the intense focus on data privacy, many applications are being modified to protect the personal data that they are processing.

(Kelly Schlamb) Here’s a big question for you – Is your database a hero or a hindrance? In other words, is your database environment one that’s helping your organization meet your performance, scalability, and availability needs or is it holding you back from meeting your SLAs and keeping up with ev

(Benny Halberstadt and Nancy Navarro) InfoSphere Business Glossary enables you to create, manage, and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system. InfoSphere Business Glossary includes a REST API that makes glossary content easier to consume by enabling the development of custom applica

(Dave Beulke) When you experience DB2 performance degradation, you’ll discover no one has changed anything (of course), or admits to changing anything. Luckily there are a wide variety of DB2 performance dependencies to check.

(Martin Rowe, David Seager and Subhash Kumar) This article series shows you how to use WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) Studio to create BIRT reports that show the contents of services within WSRR, as well as how to deploy them directly to WSRR and how to view them using the WSRR Rep

(Laura) IBM have announced that DB2 for z/OS will be withdrawn from marketing from 6th July 2015. This means that DB2 10 along with DB2 10 VUE and the DB2 10 Utility Suite will no longer be available to order.

(Henrik Loeser) As I wrote in my last blog article I have been playing around with node.js and DB2 on IBM Bluemix. Now I am done with my first server-side JavaScript application which I named “db2visitors”.

(mkrafick) Today we are going to talk about some random DB2 features that can’t stand in a blog of their own, but are worth discussing nonetheless. These are tidbits I had discovered during “DB2’s Got Talent” presentations, IDUG conferences, or “Hey, look what I discovered” moments.

(Roman Kharkovski) Oracle recently announced new version of the Oracle SOA Suite 12c, which includes updated version of the Oracle Service Bus (OSB). I tested this new version and compared it against IBM Integration Bus (IIB) v9.