(Lockwood Lyon) With the maturing of big data applications, analytics for business intelligence has expanded greatly. Big data databases, along with dimensional data in the enterprise data warehouse, provide just the right combination of detailed transactions and time series data that should allow a

(Chris Phillips) IBM Watson is an AI platform that helps businesses to uncover insights, engage in new ways, and make decisions with more confidence. The numerous Watson APIs that are available both analyze and process data. IBM API Connect provides a way to control back-end systems, such as the one

(Henrik Loeser) You have that new app, maybe even in the cloud, with that user needing read and write access to the database? Don’t want to open the floodgates for that favorite users?

(Steve Pitcher) I don’t like the fantasy genre. I mean I really don’t like it. I fell asleep during The Lord of the Rings in the theater. I smiled and winced through every Harry Potter film because my wife and kids love it.

(Kim May) Frank Fillmore just finished delivering a webcast with IBM’s Steve Mink and Doug Anderson, hosted by Blanca Borden, on the just-released QMF Analytics for Multiplatforms solution.

(Henrik Loeser) To focus on the application logic, the functionality and business side, developers can delegate or “outsource” some of security tasks. Here is a non-exhaustive list of services that the IBM Cloud with the Bluemix platform provides.

(Jeffery Andersen) Creating regular backups is a critical step to recovering from a disaster. Restoring the database is arguably the most important and time-critical portion of the backup and restore process. This IBM Redbooks web doc describes the following elements that are critical to a successfu

(Craig S. Mullins) When thinking about data management it is unlikely that your first thought is about legal requirements. Nevertheless, the legal side of data management must be considered in this day and age of regulatory compliance.

(Henrik Loeser) Providing a secure app or application is a fundamental requirement. This is especially true in a cloud environment. In my post about “Securing Workloads on the IBM Cloud” I discussed the various layers that realize secure cloud computing.

(Troy L Coleman) Db2 12 introduces continuous delivery. As I wrote here: