Posted by Frank Fillmore on September 27, 2018 under DB2 for Linux Unix Windows, DB2 for z/Linux, DB2 Gold Consultants, PostgreSQL, pureScale. Tags: DB2 for Cloud, DB2 for LUW.
On Monday, October 1, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT IBM will stream Day 1 of the IBM Gold Consultants briefing “Live from the Lab” from the IBM Toronto software development lab. This is free and open to everyone.
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Posted by Frank Fillmore on March 17, 2014 under BLU Acceleration, DB2 for Linux Unix Windows, DB2 for z/OS. Tags: DB2, DB2 for Cloud.
DB2-L had some interesting and (always!) entertaining discussion recently about the process of performance tuning for DB2 for LUW vs. DB2 for z/OS. After a bit of spirited debate Leon Katsnelson posted an analogy explaining the evolution of DB2 BLU. It’s perfect. Enjoy it below.
Leon Katsnelson DB2-L Post 3/17/14:
At some point in time, not too long ago the only way to get a well fitting suit was to go to a tailor. Tailor would measure you up and after a few fittings you would get a suit that was, well, tailor made for you. Nobody, and especially not me, would argue that this is the best way to get a great fitting suit. However, most of us could not afford a tailor made suit. But most of us can go to a mall and pick up a great Boss suit for, say $600, off the rack. What the fashion industry has done is deliver high fashion to everyone. Some designers argued that it could not be done as did many custom tailors. Now, high end designers have not disappeared and I get calls and emails from custom tailors who still make the best fitting suits … for a price.
BLU Acceleration for Cloud is high end data warehousing for everyone the same way a $600 Boss suit is a high end suit for everyone. Many have told us it can’t be done. Well, we did it. The cloud allowed us to take the cost of the hardware off the table. It also allowed us to create configurations which just like suit sizes fit most people. BLU Acceleration technology removed indexes, reorgs etc., and does not even give one a choice to disable compression and other features. It removed the need and in some cases even ability to decide on some aspects of the system. Fewer decisions make it much easier to run. For many, BLU Acceleration is as close to the load-and-go system as you can get. BLU Acceleration for Cloud went even further by integrating BI tools (Cognos BI), pre-engineered schemas and reports (3 Warehouse Packs) and we are working hard on making sure that getting data in to the warehouse is brain dead simple. Can you create a better performing data warehouse by hand tuning DB2? Yes you can. But can you make one available to your end-user to run themselves in less than an hour and for less than $1/hr? That is what BLU Acceleration for Cloud does. We are betting that there are lots of people who could use data warehouse capability if it was easy and affordable. We intend to help these people, regardless of their skill or budget, get value from the IT technologies that for too long have been out of reach. For these people, cloud is the only path and technologies like BLU is the only future.
