(Dave Beulke) Today’s big data provides more analysis opportunities and puts greater pressure on every company’s business model to produce profits. Now big data analysis can be applied and used to optimize any and all phases of your company’s business model.

(Craig S. Mullins) Before we go any further, let me briefly answer the question posed in this column’s title: “No Way!” OK … with that out of the way, let’s discuss the issue …

(Tom Alcott) Looking for ways to speed up application deployment in IBM WebSphere Application Server? In this installment, The WebSphere Contrarian outlines how applications are deployed and offers options for accelerating the deployment process.

(Dean Takahashi) IBM is announcing today that it can help mining companies predict when their equipment is going to fail, using real-time analytics culled together from equipment sensors and a rich trove of operational data.

(Bill Cole) My history in computing is littered with different roles. Everything from operator to programmer to architect as well as (forgive me) manager and director. A few lives back, I worked for a company that built the first computer on a single chip. It was a beast to make it productive out

(Ember Crooks) I am currently working on learning Ruby. I have always been a Perl fanatic, but a new build framework that my company is using requires me to use Ruby. Whee, a chance to learn something new! I am a geek.

(Troy Coleman) Back in August of 2007 I wrote about the new DB2 9 feature to suspend logging. While this was promoted as a way to reduce CPU overhead, I noted that, based on my testing, customers wouldn’t save much in CPU — though they could save on DASD storage.

(Tom Beebe and Lester Knutsen) Consulting with a variety of organizations running IBM Informix database systems requires handling many different Informix versions, environments, and setups. Oftentimes, these versions and environments have been in place for years, humming along soundly with a series

(Robert Catterall) Yes, it’s been a while since I last posted an entry to this blog – I’ve been up to my ears in other stuff. Now, however, I have something I really want to blog about, so I’m making the time to put pen to paper (figuratively speaking). Here’s the elevator version, in case you’re ju

(Lockwood Lyon) Big Data is all the rage these days. We are constantly being bombarded and overwhelmed with news, articles, white papers and vendor products related to Big Data. Authors, consultants and pundits assert that their advice is essential, vendors market solutions to our problems, and ther