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Ray Wang Compares IBM DB2 and Oracle Database for SAP Environments
Last week, the Americas SAP User Group (ASUG) hosted a Webcast titled Optimize your SAP Environment While Reducing Costs Webcast Materials. The Webcast was delivered by the inimitable Ray Wang,...
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Top 10 Reasons to Attend IDUG EMEA in Prague this November
Here are my personal top 10 reasons to attend the upcoming International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference in Prague, Czech Republic this November. 100+ of the best technical sessions about DB2,...
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IBM is Baking NoSQL Capabilities into DB2 and Informix
IBM recently revealed its plan to integrate certain NoSQL capabilities into IBM DB2 and Informix. In particular, it is working to integrate graph store and key:value store capabilities into the...
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Highlights from the IDUG EMEA Conference
I’m still in the afterglow of the International DB2 User Group (IDUG) conference in Prague, Czech Republic. It was another great conference at a great facility in a great city. The conference...
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Deploying DB2 and InfoSphere Warehouse on Private Clouds
Cloud computing is certainly a hot topic these days. If an organization is not already using cloud computing, it has plans to do so. The economics, agility, and value offered by cloud computing is just...
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Anatomy of an Oracle Marketing Claim
Yesterday, Oracle announced a new TPC-C benchmark result. They claim: In this benchmark, the Sun Fire X4800 M2 server equipped with eight Intel® Xeon® E7-8870 processors and 4TB of Samsung’s Green DDR3...
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Win a Trip to the IDUG Conference of your Choice
The International DB2 User Group (IDUG) is a user-run organization. If you want independent information about DB2, IDUG is the place to go. This year, IDUG are have conferences in the US (Denver),...
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Coca Cola Bottling Move from Oracle Database to IBM DB2
At the 2011 IBM Information On Demand (IOD) Conference, Coca Cola Bottling spoke about their experiences when moving from Oracle Database to IBM DB2. I have included some very brief video segments shot...
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Baltic Bank Moves from Oracle to DB2 to Improve Performance, Lower Costs, and...
JSC Rietumu Banka is one of the largest banks in the Baltic states. They recently migrated their data from Oracle Database on Sun servers to IBM DB2 on Power Systems servers, and enjoyed the following...
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Announcing DB2 10 & InfoSphere Warehouse 10
Today, IBM announced DB2 10 and InfoSphere Warehouse 10. You can read about these new releases in the Press Release and on the IBM Web site. Highlights of the new releases include: Performance is up to...
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