(Lockwood Lyon) The implementation of big data solutions has left many IT departments with a dilemma. Big data applications do not need the same infrastructure support teams as do more common applications.

(Dan Burger) It has been almost a year since we found out about a company called PowerRuby, a coming together of the open source Ruby on Rails development environment and the IBM Power Systems user community.

(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

(Susan Visser) When it comes to analytic results, fast can always be faster. Together, DB2 with BLU Acceleration and the new generation of IBM Power Systems are optimized to put data to work – delivering even faster analytic performance.

(Dave Beulke) There are a number of considerations for every company as they begin to conquer their new cloud projects, including several technology challenges such as data security, data placement segregation, and data access coordination to name a few.

(Henrik Loeser) One of the new features of DB2 10.5 is BLU Acceleration. In introduces a couple of default Workload Management objects that are intended to control heavy queries running against column-organized tables.

(Ember Crooks) There are a number of ways to cover error logging. I have covered some specific elements in previous posts, so I’m going for a more comprehensive approach in this post.

(Uday Nandam and Whei-Jen Chen) Today’s businesses, applications, social media, and online transactions generate more data than ever before. This data can be explored and analyzed to provide tremendous business value.

(Troy Coleman) As I’ve often noted, I prefer storing DB2 for z/OS manuals in PDF format. Even though keeping them updated is a challenge, I believe that being able to access all this information from my laptop is well worth the effort.

(Laura) No prizes for guessing that cost is a major factor for many organisations that choose remote database support. However, it’s not as clear-cut as you may think. When we looked at this issue more closely we discovered that under the umbrella of “Cost” there were many other factors at play.