At the IBM Smarter Systems Tour in Beijing yesterday IBM announced that DB2 pureScale is now available on System x. This is great news as it will allow DB2 on System x users to benefit from the continuous availability and scale-out capabilities of DB2 pureScale.
DB2 pureScale is supported on the following IBM System x servers:
This video highlights how easily and instantly you can scale your workloads by simply adding a member to the DB2 pureScale cluster. It also shows how quickly DB2 pureScale recovers in case of a member failure.
IBM have announced their newest software technology, pureScale, onto the market. This is a major change to the DB2 market-place bringing mainframe-type clustering capabilities to the midrange platform.
Jointly developed by the IBM Toronto Software Lab and Power Systems Lab in Austin, TX, the new DB2 feature delivers the continuous availability and virtually unlimited computing power required to meet growing business demands. The design of pureScale, based on the architecture and 15 years of proven experience of DB2 on System z, reflects the strengths of IBM software technology optimized for Power Systems.
DB2 for z/OS data sharing is well-acknowledged by industry experts for providing the highest availability, and addressing planned and unplanned outages. Nevertheless, end-users only care that their task is executed. If the application server cannot reach out to the database server even when the database server is up and running – there is no execution. Join IBM for this complimentary teleconference as they walk through the step-by-step process to set up a distributed application environment accessing a DB2 data sharing group for high availability. There will discuss frequently asked questions, especially those related to Parallel Sysplex® workload balancing and connection concentration.
You’ll come away with a good understanding of how to:
Achieve continuous service availability
Reap more benefit from your existing Parallel Sysplex and data sharing investments
Route workloads dynamically to the images in the Parallel Sysplex that have the most capacity or best throughput
Speaker:
Maryela Weihrauch, IBM Distinguish Engineer, DB2 for z
Take a look at IT management from a different perspective. James Cockayne, Principal DBA at Camelot Group gives us his views on key issues for DBAs, virtualization solutions and how a DBA can ensure they get that all important beauty sleep! – http://www.it-director.com/technology/data_mgmt/content.php?cid=11469
IBM DB2 9.7 introduces enhancements that allow you to make changes to the database objects while keeping these objects fully accessible to the database users during the modification. These enhancements allow database administrators to make vital changes to the database schema on the fly without any disruption to users. This article includes examples that demonstrate how to use the ALTER TABLE command to rename columns and change column data types. Other examples demonstrate how to use the ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE routine to move and modify tables while keeping them accessible.
David Tung, Solutions Architect at xkoto Inc., talks about GRIDSCALE load balancer for DB2 databases and its use for building very elastic DB2 solutions for Cloud Computing.
Congratulations to our partners at xkoto for their latest accolade of “Cool Vendor” in the recently released Gartner report, “Cool Vendors in IT Operations and Virtualization, 2009.”
