(Indrani Ghatare, Matt Kalan, Sundari Voruganti and Kathryn Zeidenstein) This article series describes how to monitor and protect MongoDB data using IBM InfoSphere Guardium. Part 1 describes an overview of the solution, the architecture, and the benefits of using InfoSphere Guardium with MongoDB.

(Jack Vamvas) Question: How can I find the last date & time of a DB2 reorg action?

(Cindy Russell) At the Information On Demand conference, IBM has announced BLU Acceleration for Cloud as a technology preview. This is an opportunity to help shape the product, while also taking advantage of hot BLU Acceleration dynamic in-memory technology.

(Henrik Loeser) There are cases when ownership of database objects needs to be reorganized: People leaving the company, new rules from supervisory authorities (financial industry, …), changes to applications, and much more.

(Amyris Rada and Roman Melnyk, B.) In a side-by-side comparison table, the authors make it easy to understand the basic licensing rules, functions, and feature differences among the members of the distributed DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows server family as of June 14, 2013.

(Dave Beulke) There are many new enhancements in DB2 11 for z/OS, and some of the most important ones are the ones that help data management handle the schema chaos within application development.

(Willie Favero) It’s been a while since I’ve had an APAR Friday post… and yes, I do know it’s not Friday… it’s a theme thing I’m trying to get going… LOL

(Abhinav Priyadarshi, Pabitra Mukhopadhyay and Avinash Jhawar) This article shows you how to create a mobile application by integrating IBM Worklight with IBM Integration Bus. The article uses a sales order management scenario, with a mobile application retrieving sales orders from a back-end Siebel

(Bill Cole) I love computer hardware. You know, walk in the data center and hear all those fans whining, lights flashing, disks spinning. Home and mother. My domain. I can explain how each and every one of them is used – except for a few in the racks over there.

(Troy Coleman) As I was reading the DB2 11 announcement letter (U.S. version here; EMEA version here), I noticed that SYNONYMS has been deprecated and the recommendation is to use ALIAS. This could have a huge impact on existing development environments; it will greatly affect DBAs.