Cure your data headache!

Don’t miss your chance to hear from the experts on how to cure your data growth issues and deliver significant and ongoing cost savings.

Join IBM Data Champion Julian Stuhler and industry insider Andrew Crouch of AVIVA on our upcoming webinar to hear their tips on coping with the data explosion.

To register for this free event visit http://www.triton.co.uk/eventregistration.php

Event details:

Date: 9th July 09
Time: 11am GMT

This event is design specifically for senior IT professionals working in the financial services sector who are experiencing issues related to growing data volumes.

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Misconceptions and Old Wives Tales on DB2 Database Maintenance and Recovery

July 7, 2009, 11 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time, 3:00 p.m. UTC

Every database administrator strives to maintain a healthy DB2® environment: It’s part of the daily routine. However, misconceptions about database health can get in the way of a cost-effective DB2 environment. Apply concepts that make sense.

Like old wives’ tales, some misconceptions exist simply because they have been passed down from older generations. For DB2, this means that even best practices true for older DB2 versions may no longer be the best choice. Join us for this complimentary teleconference and learn the most common misconceptions about DB2 maintenance and recovery.

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How statistics lie:
Real-time statistics best practices
Eliminating unnecessary RUNSTATS Backups are important, but …
Why you should wait before migrating too early to tape
Why virtual tape storage is not as good as DASD
Serious considerations for logs on tape
Why mirroring instead of dual logging fails Recovery – ready, set, go:
All about recovery time objectives
A, B, Zs of zPARMs
How your coupling facility will perform during a recovery

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Break free with IBM DB2 9.7

In this latest video see IBM Data Champion Julian Stuhler and other industry experts talk about their first hand experiences of how companies can break free from Oracle’s rising costs and gain huge benefits from IBM DB2 9.7

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Oracle to DB2 made easy

Don’t miss out - 4:30pm GMT TODAY!

Enabling applications from Oracle to DB2 the easy way
- A DB2 Chat with the Lab

DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows has out-of-the-box support for Oracle’s SQL and PL/SQL dialects. This allows many applications written against Oracle to execute virtually unchanged against DB2.

Join experts from the DB2 labs, Sal Vella - VP, and Serge Rielau - SQL Architect, to learn more about what Oracle compatibility means in DB2.

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All you need to know about DB2 9.7

Put some time in your diary on 24th June at 4pm GMT for IDUG’s DB2 9.7 webinar.  The hosts will be the new President of IDUG, Michael McBride and DB2 Evangelist Paul C. Zikopoulos.  Find out what the DB2 9.7 buzz is all about.

Along with live Q&A, Paul will discuss DB2 9.7’s new features for:

1. increasing performance, reliability and ease of use
2. lowering management costs
3. enhancing workload management
4. compatibility with Oracle Database SQL, PL/SQL, data types, scripting and more

Register here!

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DB2 9.7 Overview

Join DB2 experts (Sal Vella, VP of Development, and Tim Vincent, Chief DB2 LUW Architect) who develop breakthrough technology and get your questions answered and learn more about what’s new in DB2 9.7

DB2 9.7 (DB2 Cobra) Technology Preview with Tim Vincent from Natasha Tolub on Vimeo.

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Database performance monitoring & tuning for real business benefits

In their latest video, DBI Software demonstrate the importance of effective database performance monitoring and tuning to:

  • Lower energy costs
  • Improve ability to optimize existing IT assets
  • Avoid or defer hardware upgrades 
  • Dramatically cust software licensing costs
  • Improve productivity and profitability

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Top 6 tips for a successful DB2 Performance Expert Deployment for DB2 for Linux, UNIX & Windows

Part 1 - Modifying settings, setting up alerts and using System Health data views

Performance monitoring and tuning are critical tasks for a database administrator (DBA). DB2® Performance Expert helps DBAs tackle immediate performance problems, as well as avoid problems in the future. 

Take a look at the IBM Information Management developer works pages to view part 1 of these top tips.

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DB2 & Cloud Computing

This is a recording of the DB2 and Cloud Computing Chat with IBM Lab held in Mar 2009. It outlines the IBM Cloud Computing strategy for DB2 database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and describes various Cloud related DB2 offerings such as AMIs for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Further information about DB2 on the Cloud can be found at:
http://www.ibm.com/db2/cloud/?S_TACT=CHDB201


DB2 & Cloud Computing from Nathalie Tolub on Vimeo.

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xkoto named to the first annual Information Week Startup

xkoto’s GRIDSCALE database virtualization product delivers unprecedented levels of availability and scalability for SQL server and DB2 environments.

InformationWeek’s Startup 50 is a list of the top 50 business technology startups selected by InformationWeek readers and editors. Companies were selected in a three-step process that involved nomination, online voting, and editorial vetting.

InformationWeek editors and readers identified young companies that are ready to address the critical challenges facing the enterprise. Whether it is securing networks, cutting costs or streamlining IT operations and business processes, the InformationWeek Startup 50 provides IT professionals and executives insight on new and innovative solutions from the named companies.

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