(Roman Kharkovski) In my earlier post titled “WebSphere MQ 7.5 and Apache ActiveMQ 5.9 performance comparison (part 1)” I shared installation, configuration and bash script sources for running performance benchmark for WebSphere MQ and ActiveMQ.

(Jeff Berger) DB2 buffer pools are still a key resource for ensuring good performance. This has become increasingly important as the difference between processor speed and disk response time for a random access I/O widens in each new generation of processor.

(Scott Hayes) 100% of our audience learned something! The DB2’s GOT TALENT March Finalist shows are amazing! You can learn from and enjoy great presentations by rising stars in our DB2 community!

(Willie Favero) The response to the DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS has been exceptional. It is also very cool. Imaging taking a query that runs in hours and running it less than a minute? And that’s not all. The Accelerator is capable of so much more.

(Praveen Devarao and Mario Briggs) The BLU Acceleration Service available in IBM Codename: BlueMix provides a powerful, easy-to-use, and agile platform for business intelligence and analytics tasks. It is an enterprise-class managed-service powered by the in-memory optimized, column-organized BLU Ac

(Kim May) IBM has scheduled a second presentation of the 2014 zEnterprise Technology Summit due to the snowstorm that hit in January when the event ran originally. If you are in the area and have time to attend, please do!

(Dave Beulke) The last two weeks I have talked about ways to choose meaningful business analytics and then fine tune the focus of your business analytics. This week I talk about the factors needed to further fine tune your analytics into effective results for your company.

(Paolo Bruni, Brian Baggett, Jeffrey Berger, Neena Cherian, Nguyen Dao, David Dossantos, Akiko Hoshikawa, Maggie Jin, Gopal Krishnan, Ping Liang, Cristian Molaro, Todd Munk, Mai Nguyen, Tomokazu Ohtsu, Bharat Verma, Lingyun Wang, Dan Weis, Chung Wu and David Zhang) To compete in a 24×7 global econom

(Craig S. Mullins) Every now and then when I am talking to clients (and database professionals of all types) somebody raises the age old question of how to measure the effectiveness and quality of their DBA staff. Now I’ve tackled a related question on this blog a little bit ago, which is How Many D

(Bill Cole) Leave only footprints; take only pictures. Have you seen that slogan in a national park? My wife (she’s now an ex) didn’t believe the signs that told us to leave everything exactly where it was. She didn’t want to just enjoy the beauty. She wanted to take some home with us.