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What BLU Acceleration means for data storage and analytics: IBM Champions speak
Last week IBM made a major announcement in the data management space: a technology dubbed ‘BLU Acceleration’ that provides major performance and compression enhancements to the DB2 and Informix line of products. Many of our IBM Champions were given privileged access to the launch and have shared their views on the implications of BLU: As Philip Nelson explains, “we are being given a columnar data store integrated into the core DB2 engine, with potentially huge benefits for Business Intelligence workloads." He makes the point that database... [More]
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Addressing the key big data question for DB2: how do you balance the speed of data-in versus data-out? Dr Iqbal Goralwalla explains
The major innovation with the big data revolution has been to optimize how quickly data can be analyzed versus how quickly data can be poured into a database. This turns large data stores into gold mines of data insights rather than expensive, forgotten data archives. Why is this important? Because we now have so much more useful data around our businesses. Social media has a big part to play in this, as does every system of engagement within the organization. Large, secure relational databases like IBM DB2 are taking this into account through... [More]
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