(Conor O’Mahony) I mentioned earlier this week that IBM has published scale-out numbers for DB2 pureScale. I thought I’d take a few minutes to let you know about those numbers. To measure the efficiency of scaling out a system, IBM successively added DB2 servers to form larger and larger clusters.

(Sunil Kamath) Over the years, database administrators and database application developers have wrestled with storage layout and disk configuration when implementing mission-critical transactional, data warehouse, or mixed workloads. They spend tremendous amounts of time and money designing and opti

(Rebecca Bond) I attended a webinar this week presented by Guardium and Dark Reading. A Forrester Research analyst made this shocking, but likely very true statement:

The screencast demonstrates how the DB2 pureScale ensures continuous availability by instantly recovering from member failures by automatically routing workloads to surviving members.

(Chao M Beck and Vijai Kalathur) Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and Web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of Web-based communities and host

(Robert Catterall) DB2 has been around for a long time (more than 25 years), and a lot of people who work with DB2 have been doing so for a long time (myself included). Many of the younger folks I meet who are professionally engaged in DB2-related activity are developers.

(Dave Beulke) Some of the new tablespace partitioning choices and features in DB2 Version 8 and Version 9 for z/OS are making everyone realize there are a number of table design choices to fit any application access type.

(Thanh Pham and Louis Mau) For cost, operational efficiency, and regulatory requirements, enterprises are required to archive transactional data. But that data might still be useful for reporting purposes. This article shows how easily you can use IBM Mashup Center to modify a reporting mashup to co

(Troy Coleman) IBM’s DB2 for z/OS team has been busy lately. I’ve received two Red Alert notices this month.

(Craig Mullins) This was a recent topic on the DB2-L mailing list so I thought I’d weigh in with my two cents worth on the topic.