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James Cockayne

Principal Consultant

Favourite topics – Database security, performance & availability.

In over 15 years of experience as a DBA James has worked across government, retail, insurance and banking industries designing, building and maintaining databases that sit behind some of the UKs busiest online systems and the warehouses that support them.

Now working for UK based Triton Consulting, James focuses on extending the use of DevOps and cloud tooling and techniques with DB2 both on mainframe and LUW platforms.

Recent Posts by James Cockayne

Feb

2022 Posted by James Cockayne

DataOps vs. DevOps for Data

If “data is the new oil”, then insights are the new petrol – refined into something useful to get you going where you want to be. Aging fossil fuel based quotes aside, more and more organisations are discovering the difficulties

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Nov

2021 Posted by James Cockayne

Ransomware and the DB2 Database – Part Two

Prevention is Better than Cure In part one of this blog we looked at what might happen to a DB2 database that was attacked by ransomware encryption. Similar to encountering catastrophic storage issues, recovering from these simulated attacks would require

Sep

2021 Posted by James Cockayne

Ransomware and the DB2 Database – Part 1

What Would an Attack Look Like? By now I’m sure everyone has heard of the malicious practice known as ransomware attacks, where miscreants break into a corporate network and encrypt data before demanding huge sums of money to provide a

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