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Chat with the Lab - Thursday, July 10th 8 AM Pacific, 10 AM Central, 11 AM Eastern, 4 PM London, 5 PM Paris
Do you have credit card data in your databases? Personal data in your databases? Confidential business data in your databases? The pressure is on to get this sensitive data encrypted and this pressure comes from government regulations, industry mandates, or simply fear of damaging your company's reputation due to an embarrassing public disclosure about losing private data. While encryption technology has existed for some time, only now are there software solutions that provide effective protection with operational simplicity. Come join us on this call which will discuss the importance of data encryption, introduce the IBM Database Encryption Expert for DB2 and (soon) IDS, and dive into its capabilities and user experience. Our speaker for this session is Peter Mandel, Optim Product Manager for Data Governance.
Auditing is your authoritative record of happenings - it is important evidence that everything is running according to plan and the proof when it is not. As such, auditing database access and changes are a critical part of any data server security, privacy or compliance effort. DB2's new audit facility makes capturing these audit logs easier and more flexible then ever. But capturing the audit records is only the first step. Audit logs sitting on your database server are not useful unless someone is regularly looking at them. As an example, requirement 10.6 of the PCI standard mandates that important audit logs should be reviewed at least daily. DB2 Audit Management Expert - now available for LUW - is a tool that simplifies the collection, analysis and reporting of DB2 audit records across your systems. Come join us and hear about the importance of audit, and a deep dive into the DB2 Audit facility and DB2 Audit Management Expert for LUW. Our speakers for this session are Sal Vella, Vice President of DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence and Belal Tassi, CISSP, Worldwide DB2 Technical Evangelist.
Replay of this Chat held June 19, 2008 is now available:
The IBM Data Studio portfolio offers an integrated, modular data management environment to design, develop, deploy, and administer data, database, and data-driven applications throughout the entire data management lifecycle. Rational Data Architect is a key component of the Data Studio strategy and is a collaborative data design solution to discover, model, relate and standardize diverse data assets such as the DB2 family, IDS, Oracle, SQL Server and other major database vendors. Get the latest on positioning, successes, and integrations with the IBM Industry Models, the Rational Software Development platform and Information Server. Our speaker will be Anson Kokkat, Worldwide Product Manager for Rational Data Architect.
Replay of this Chat held June 12, 2008 is now available:
IBM Data Studio is a comprehensive data management solution that empowers you to effectively design, develop, deploy and manage your data, databases and database applications throughout the entire application development life cycle using a consistent and integrated user interface. pureQuery is a high-performance data access platform focused on simplifying the tasks of developing and managing new and existing Java applications that access data. Our speaker is Dr. Stephen Brodsky, Information Management Architect and Distinguished Engineer.
Replay of this Chat held May 30, 2008 is now available:
Deep Compression reduces the amount of disk space needed to store information and improves performance through faster I/O and more efficient use of memory. This session will begin with an overview and will be followed by customer experiences from someone who has planned, organized, communicated and coordinated the implementation of Deep Compression in development, test, regression test and production environments for multi-terabyte data warehouses. Our speakers will be Sal Vella, Vice President of DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence; Bill Minor, DB2 Development Manager; and Mark Mulligan, Senior DBA at a US-based insurance company.
Replay of this Chat held May 29, 2008 is now available:
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There has been plenty of material written on the subject of database security. Unfortunately, most of these papers and presentations focus only on describing how a particular database security feature works. Customers are often left confused as to when to use what technology - and what security issues each feature is helping them tackle. This has prompted us to build the IBM Data Security Server Blueprint: an easy to use document that can greatly simplify security planning for users of DB2 and IDS data servers. The blueprint outlines the major threats to a data server, and the recommended countermeasures direct from the Lab security teams. The authors of the blueprint will discuss how it was developed, how it works, and most importantly how you can use it to help lock down your data server. Our speakers for this session will be Sal Vella, Vice President, DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence; Walid Rjaibi, Security Architect and Relational Data Services Development; and Belal Tassi, WW DB2 Technical Evangelist.
Replay of this Chat held April 1, 2008 is now available:
This Chat will discuss the capabilities of the DB2 Warehouse tooling and how it can help you accelerate the development and deployment of your Data Warehouse environment over and above standard database capabilities. This tooling includes SQL, Cubing Services, Modeling and Mining. It will be beneficial for existing warehousing customers or for those considering DB2 Warehouse who want to know about the tooling around the warehouse. Our speakers for this session will be Sal Vella, Vice President of Development for DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence and Phil Downey, DB2 Program Manager, who will be speaking to us from Australia. This talk is targeted at DB2 LUW customers and partners.
Replay of this Chat held on December 12, 2007 is now available:
IBM Data Studio is a comprehensive data management solution that empowers you to effectively design, develop, deploy and manage your data, databases and database applications throughout the entire application development life cycle using a consistent and integrated user interface. pureQuery is Data Studio tooling runtime that improves application performance, manageability, and problem determination across the life cycle. Our speaker is Dr. Stephen Brodsky, Information Management Architect and Senior Technical Staff Member. This Chat is for both Informix and DB2 customers.
Replay of this Chat held on November 29, 2007 is now available:
This Chat will cover the architecture and new capabilities of DWE 9.5. Many of the new features improve the overall usability and performance of the product and its analytical capabilities including: Design tooling for effective Workload Management deployment and monitoring, OLAP cube definition and administration, Alphablox interfaces, enhancements to the data mining process and web deployment. Our speakers will be Sal Vella, Vice President of DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence and Pat Bates, Product Manager, DB2 Warehouse Analytics.
Replay of this Chat held on November 7, 2007 is now available:
Our first Chat will provide an overview of the new workload management capabilities being introduced in the next major release of DB2 LUW codenamed Viper 2. The motivation and objectives behind this work will be described along with an overview of the new functions being introduced. Our speakers will be Sal Vella, Vice President of DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence and Paul Bird, Senior Technical Staff Member, DB2 LUW Development.
Replay of this Chat held on September 24, 2007 is now available:
DB2 9 (code named Viper) brought the initial functionality and capability of Deep Compression. Significant storage savings and in many cases, performance benefit, is possible. Viper 2 will bring additional enhancements to the compression story in DB2, including automation. This session will provide an overview and roadmap of Deep Compression in DB2 as well as share best practices and insights into successfully deploying this functionality. Our speakers will be Sal Vella, Vice President of DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence, Bill Minor, DB2 Development Manager, and Chris Eaton, DB2 Product Manager.
Replay of this Chat held on September 27, 2007 is now available:
This Chat will cover the architecture and new capabilities of DWE 9.5. Many of the new features improve the overall usability and performance of the product and its analytical capabilities including: Design tooling for effective Workload Management deployment and monitoring, OLAP cube definition and administration, Alphablox interfaces, enhancements to the data mining process and web deployment. Our speakers will be Sal Vella, Vice President of DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence and Pat Bates, Product Manager, DB2 Warehouse Analytics.
Replay of this Chat held on July 19, 2007 is now available:
This DB2 Chat with the Lab focuses on the new features of DB2 Viper 2. Our speakers will be Sal Vella, Vice President of DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Business Intelligence and Drew Bradstock, DB2 Product Manager. Drew will discuss the upcoming release and the Viper 2 Open Beta program which kicked off June 15th. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the future of DB2 and how you can shape it. This Chat focuses on the DB2 distributed platform and is intended for customers, partners and IBMers.
Highlights of the DB2 Viper 2 Release:
- Increased integration between relational and XML capability allowing for easy development as well as XML publishing of relational data
- Greater knowledge and control of your systems with integrated workload management
- Fail over hand off with automated, easy-to-use high availability
- Greater flexibility and granularity in security, auditing and access control
- Simplified memory management and increased customization capabilities
Replay of this Chat held on June 26, 2007 is now available:
DB2 9 adds a more sophisticated form of statistic to capture complex relationships among search conditions and across tables. This presentation will discuss how they work and how to use them. It also provides some background on selectivity and cardinality estimation. Our speakers will be Sal Vella, Vice President, DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and John Hornibrook, Manager, DB2 for LUW Query Optimization.
Replay of this Chat held on May 24, 2007 is now available:
For our next Chat with the Lab, Sal Vella, Vice President of DB2 Development for Linux, Unix and Windows and Les King, Program Director of the Data Services Portfolio, will talk about the next release of DB2 on the distributed platform. A detailed look at key requirements that drive product plans in areas such as XML exploitation, manageability, scalability and performance, optimization and warehousing will be discussed.
Replay of this Chat held on April 12, 2007 is now available:
Your DB2 system has been humming along just fine, but now it has to handle more data, applications and users than ever - and things are slowing down a bit. This talk will take you through a logical, step-by-step approach to finding & fixing performance bottlenecks anywhere in the system. We start with common symptoms and work to solutions by using a systematic approach that is easy to understand and build on.
Join Sal Vella, Vice President - DB2 Development, and award winning speaker Steve Rees, Senior Manager - DB2 Performance QA, to learn about DB2 performance tuning and troubleshooting.
Replay of this Chat held on Feb 21, 2007 is now available:
Managing database storage can be a resource intensive and a time consuming task. The recently introduced Automatic Storage in DB2 9 represents a major leap forward. This feature can associate a set of storage paths with a database, create table spaces on these storage paths without explicitly specifying storage or containers, and let DB2 automatically extend and add containers on the fly. All these capabilities contribute to lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of your database environment by substantially reducing the amount of storage administration that database administrators have to perform. This Chat with the Lab will dive into the details on Automatic Storage and the role it plays in DB2 for LUW's storage strategy.
Join Sal Vella, VP of DB2 development, Aamer Sachedina, Senior Software Engineer in DB2 Development, to learn about Automatic Storage in DB2 9, and understand how you can make your job as a DBA much easier.
Replay of this Chat held on November 14, 2006 is now available:
Securing information assets and restricting data access to only those with the need to know is becoming a significant challenge for many organizations, especially in highly classified environments such as government agencies, armed forces, healthcare institutions, etc. Label-Based Access Control (LBAC) is a new security capability in DB2 9 that allows you to control access to your data at a very granular level. With LBAC you can limit data access at the row and/or column level based on security labels. Unlike traditional implementations of mandatory access control (e.g., Multilevel Security), the DB2 LBAC capability allows you to tailor the security label definition to best suit your application specific needs. DB2 LBAC integrates well with other DB2 capabilities (like data partitioning) and can be combined with such capabilities to offer an even stronger security.
Join Sal Vella, VP of DB2 Development, and Walid Rjaibi, Senior DB2 Software Engineer - Security and Privacy, for a deep dive into the LBAC capability in DB2 9 on Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
Replay of this Chat held on October 12, 2006 is now available:
IBM has been a pioneer in autonomic computing. A number of self-configuring,
self-optimizing, and self-healing capabilities were introduced in the earlier
DB2 releases. DB2 9 continues along this strategy of helping you derive more
value from your data, while spending less time managing it. This new version
contains revolutionary features like self-tuning memory and automatic
configuration of newly created databases. These autonomic features are
designed to make database administration effortless, improve administrator
productivity, and lower ownership costs.
Join Sal Vella, VP of DB2 development, and Adam Storm, DB2 autonomic computing
developer, for an in-depth look at some of the new autonomic capabilities in DB2 9.
Replay of this Chat held on July 20, 2006 is now available:
Disk storage systems can often be the most expensive components of a database solution. For large warehouses or databases with huge volumes of data, the cost of the storage subsystem can easily exceed the combined cost of the hardware server and the data server software. Therefore even a small reduction in the storage subsystem can result in substantial cost savings for the entire database solution. Data row compression in DB2 9 is a remarkable new feature that can reduce storage requirements, improve I/O efficiency, and result in savings of up to 80%.
Join Sal Vella, VP of DB2 Development, Bill Minor, DB2 Development Manager, and Chris Eaton, DB2 Product Manager, to take you through a deep dive into DB2 9's compression technology and its impact for your business.
Replay of this Chat held on June 15, 2006 is now available:
DB2 9 contains innovative features for delivering information on demand
and scaling databases to new levels. The Table (Range) Partitioning
capabilities in DB2 9 provide a number of advantages including better
query performance, improved large table manageability, and dynamic data
roll-in/roll-out. The Large Row Identifier (RID) allows for creation of tables
and indexes that are terabytes in size. Together these features enable the
ability to create and easily manage databases with virtually unlimited
capacity, and are especially beneficial in large data-warehousing
environments.
Join Sal Vella, VP of DB2 Development, and Matt Huras, IBM Distinguished
Engineer and lead DB2 Architect, for an in-depth look at the new Table
Partitioning and Large RID support in DB2 9 on Linux, UNIX, and Windows.
Replay of this Chat held on May 24, 2006 is now available:
DB2 9 is the code-name for a new version of DB2 due out in summer 2006 that introduces numerous innovations to help organizations realize the business value of information. These innovations include the industry’s first hybrid data server - serving data from both pure relational and pure XML structures. DB2 9 also includes other compelling enhancements such as additional optimizations for powering SAP faster with lower cost than alternatives, new storage optimization advances that will dramatically reduce storage costs, and advanced security capabilities to control access and meet compliance requirements.
Join Sal Vella, VP of DB2 Development, and Peter Kohlmann, Senior DB2 Product Manager, from the IBM Toronto Lab to learn about the exciting new capabilities available in DB2 9 on Linux, UNIX, and Windows platforms and understand:
- How DB2 9 leads the way in providing Information as a Service
- How DB2 9 helps you manage your business, not your database
- How DB2 9 is part of an agile development environment, and
- How DB2 9 is even more secure and resilient
Replay of this Chat held on April 6, 2006 is now available:
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