Here's wishing all of my readers a very happy holiday season... Be safe and enjoy the holidays and we'll see you again in 20...
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011
The highlights of my fourth day at the IOD conference in Las Vegas was the general session with Michael Lewis and Billy Beane.Billy Beane is the the general manager (as well as a minority owner) of the Oakland Athletics. Michael Lewis is the author of the book, Moneyball, that outlines how Beane revolutionized baseball analytics by focusing on different statistics than the traditional RBI and batting average. Indeed, the A's analysis showed that on-base percentage and slugging percentage were better predictors of offesnive success, and therefore...
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Day three at the IOD conference in Las Vegas started off with a Big Data focus. The first thing in the morning was the general session which began, as usual with a series of factoids and interesting statistics. The highlights of which, in my opinion, were these:There are over 34,000 Google searches done every second. Which is a huge number, but not unbelieveable.... 1 in 3 business leaders make decisions based on data they don't trust. Personally, I think the other 2 are just kidding themselves.Top 2 leadership challenges according to IBM study:...
Monday, 24 October 2011
As promised, here is the second of my daily blogs from the IOD conference in Las Vegas. Today it was reported that the attendance at the event was the highest ever for an Information On Demand conference; there are more than 11,500 registered attendees. The second day of the conference is when things really start humming with news and in-depth presentations. The day kicked off with the general session delivered by a host of IBM executives and customers. Big data, business analytics, and gaining insight into data was the theme of the session. ...
Sunday, 23 October 2011
Well, the first day of the IOD conference is just about behind us. As usual, Sunday is a day to get acclimated to Vegas and the Mandalay Bay conference center. If you are here, I hope you brought some comfortable shoes, because you'll be doing a LOT of walking. Typically, the highlight of the first day is the opening of the Expo Hall, and this year was no exception. The hall was jam-packed with IBM booths demonstrating and promoting all kinds of software, from DB2 to Informix to Analytics to InfoSphere to Big Data to Cloud and more. And there were...
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Just a quick post today, Saturday, October 22nd 2011, to let everybody know that I will be blogging daily from the IOD conference in Las Vegas this week.I'll try to keep my readers up-to-date on what is going on by posting my thoughts about the conference, covering the news and announcements that are made, and by working with SoftBase Systems to produce daily videos on the news of the day along with daily interviews of DB2 luminaries... so whether you can't make the conference this year, or can but want to keep abreast of things, keep checking...
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
I know a lot of my readers are waiting on the updated edition of my book, DB2 Developer's Guide. This short blog post is to let you know that the wait is almost over. The book will be published early next year and is available to be pre-ordered on amazon com.The book has been completely updated and is now up-to-date with DB2 10 for z/OS. Just think of the things that have been added to DB2 since the last time the book was updated: Universal table spaces, pureXML, SECADM, hashes, new data types, INSTEAD OF triggers, temporal support, and much, much...
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Last week (September 2011), IBM announced the Smart Analytics System 5710, which is a database appliance for business intelligence and data analytics targeted at the SMB market. The IBM Smart Analytics System 5710 is based on IBM System x, runs Linux, and includes InfoSphere Warehouse Departmental Edition and Cognos 10 Business Intelligence Reporting and Query.The announcement of this appliance was somewhat lost in the shuffle of Oracle's marketing blitz for its similar Oracle Database Appliance, also announced last week. But IBM's offering is...
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Today's blog post is to promote an upcoming FREE webinar that I will be delivering titled DB2 10: For Developers Only! The presentation is sponsored by the good folks at SoftBase Systems. and it will be conducted on Wednesday, September 14th, 2011, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm EST. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...
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