I’ll write a few blog posts on DB2 pureScale Availability so that I can break them into bite sized pieces for you.  As I add more postings I’ll update the links below so you can move between all the separate posts.

• DB2 pureScale Availability Part 1
• DB2 pureScale Availability Part 2  - this post

 

In my previous post I talked ab it.toolbox.com | 7/19/11 2:50 PM

Another Oracle to DB2 migration story in which Anuprita Daga, Chief Manager, IT, Reliance Life Insurance says "The total cost of ownership with DB2 running on IBM Power servers is almost half the cost of Oracle Database on Sun systems."

 

Check out the full story here.

 

 

it.toolbox.com | 7/14/11 12:42 PM

In May, IBM and Obsidian certified Longbow™ for use with Geographically Dispersed pureScale Clusters (GDPC).  Using this configuration you can extend pureScale clusters over large distances to create a highly available active/active cluster between sites.  The announcement is available here. 

 

For customers that are looking to extend the capabilities of their pureSca it.toolbox.com | 6/29/11 3:54 PM

Well known independant research and analyst company IDC has just published a Buyer Case Study entitled “Buyer Conversations: Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated's ERP Upgrade Journey” in which they profile the cost savings and performance benefits Coca-Cola Bottling was able to achieve with the move to DB2 under SAP.

 

If you are looking at an SAP upgrade or Unicode conversion similar to what Coca- it.toolbox.com | 6/15/11 4:14 PM

IBM has just recently released a new product that I think you should all at least take a look at (it could save you a lot of grief).  Called DB2 Merge Backup for LUW, this feature can take your incremental backups and merge them with your last full backup to create a new backup image that effectively merges the incremental changes into the full backup.

it.toolbox.com | 6/2/11 1:25 PM

Here is yet another Oracle/Sun customer that is running their banking application on DB2 on IBM Power.  The key benefits they quote are:

• Reduced total cost of ownership by 20-30 percent
• Achieved 3-30 times faster query performance
• Improved data availability by 200 percent
• Achieved an out-of-the-box compatibility rate of more than 90 percent

 

it.toolbox.com | 6/1/11 4:28 PM

What makes DB2 pureScale the leader in high availability? This series of blog postings will tell you. it.toolbox.com | 5/26/11 4:45 PM

While Oracle abandons HP-UX customers, IBM reaffirms it's commitment to the platform. it.toolbox.com | 5/24/11 12:07 PM

What makes pureScale better for scaling applications than Oracle RAC? Many things but one is silent invalidation which allows applications to scale without being cluster aware. it.toolbox.com | 4/26/11 11:56 AM

DB2 pureScale advantages over distributed locking databases for scalability - part 3. What happens when a member wants to update a page it.toolbox.com | 4/8/11 5:49 PM

If you are going to the IDUG North America conference next week then we should definitely do dinner. Don’t have your people call my people (I don’t have any people), just go to this link and sign up for the Dine Around and select the Laughing Cat http://www.thelaughingcat.com/home.html for some good Italian food with Scott Hayes, myself and the other 18 people that want to eat w it.toolbox.com | 5/4/10 5:03 PM

A new place for DB2 consultants and professionals to interact with people/companies that need DB2 skills. it.toolbox.com | 4/30/10 5:23 PM

On November 30, 2009 IBM announced that it has acquired Guardium, a market leader in real-time enterprise database monitoring and protection. Here are some points from the press release: "Guardium gives clients unprecedented visibility and control over their data access activities while taking advantage of automation to deliver rapid return on investment," said Ram Metser, chief it.toolbox.com | 11/30/09 5:13 PM