Overview

Extreme Availability and Scalability--Up and Running With DB2 pureScale

DB2 is a leading-edge hybrid data server that offers optimum storage, scalability, and availability. DB2 pureScale is a new technology primarily optimized for scale-out transactional processing clusters in an active-active manner. This...

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DB2 pureScale: Risk Free Agile Scaling

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Overview

Extreme Availability and Scalability--Up and Running With DB2 pureScale

DB2 is a leading-edge hybrid data server that offers optimum storage, scalability, and availability. DB2 pureScale is a new technology primarily optimized for scale-out transactional processing clusters in an active-active manner. This succinct guide will show you how DB2 with pureScale can deliver transparent application scalability, the ability to deliver agile-like computing to your transaction systems, and extreme availability.



This book, together with IBM DB2 9 New Features (McGraw-Hill, 2007) and Break Free with DB2 9.7 (McGraw-Hill, 2009), provides you with the comprehensive knowledge you need to get started with the latest DB2 release. Try the new features by downloading DB2 Express-C 9.7--it is free to develop, deploy, and distribute (with no user and database size limitations) and features pureXML technology. Go to ibm.com/db2/express.





  • Discover the benefits your business can achieve with the agility provided by DB2 pureScale

  • Find out how applications can be transparently scaled

  • Reduce the risk and cost of business growth through umlimited capacity

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780071752411
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
  • Publication date: 12/31/2010
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 144
  • File size: 4 MB

Meet the Author

Paul C. Zikopoulos, B.A., M.B.A., is the Director of Technical Professionals for IBM Software Group's Information Management division. In this role, he has executive responsibilities for the vitality of its client-facing technical professional community and ensuring they're among the most technically skilled personnel in the marketplace. Paul has written more than 300 magazine articles and 14 books on DB2, including Break Free with DB2: A Tour of Cost Saving Features; Information on Demand: Introduction to DB2 9.5 New Features; DB2 Fundamentals Certification for Dummies; DB2 for Dummies and more. Paul is a DB2 Certified Solutions Expert (BI and DBA).



Matt Huras, B.ASc., M.Eng., is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and a senior architect for the DB2 on the Linux, UNIX, and Windows platform. He focuses on database kernel, which includes the data management, index management, locking, concurrency, and other protocols. Matt's most recent project role was the lead architect of DB2 pureScale--a new feature focusing on delivering new levels of scalability and availability.



Paul Awad, B.Sc., is an IBM Project Manager whose main focus is DB2 pureScale. Paul has held several leadership positions at IBM, including roles in support, the Project Office, and the Collaboration Center. Paul is currently the DB2 pureScale Product Manager, and in this role he has influence over the DB2 pureScale product, customer, and market feedback channels for the offering as well as enabling the product to market.



Aamer Sachedina, B.Eng., P.Eng., is a Senior Technical Staff Member and IBM Master Inventer at the IBM Toronto Lab. Over the years, he contributed to the design of the DB2 kernel, was the architect of DB2's Automatic Storage, and most recently headed the active-active availability effort as HA architect on the DB2 pureScale project.

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Table of Contents

Part I: From the Business Perspective
Chapter 1 An Introduction to DB2 pureScale: The Value Proposition
Chapter 2 DB2 pureScale Performance Results: What Your Business Can Finally Realize
Part II: From the Technology Perspective
Chapter 3 DB2 pureScale Key Concepts: A Primer for the Rest of the Book
Chapter 4 Transparent Application Scaling with DB2 pureScale
Chapter 5 DB2 pureScale Configuration: The Operational 101
Chapter 6 DB2 pureScale for Availability
Chapter 7 DB2 pureScale Workload Balancing and Automatic Client Reroute
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