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Target audience: Mid to Highly skilled Linux, DB2 and GCP admins. Currently IBM DB2 is not one of the choices for an RDBS in GCP. This article describes how to stand up a simple HA DB2 instance using GCP components. This configuration is intended to be used as a POC or POT demonstration of DB2. […]

Target audience: Mid to Highly skilled Linux, IBM and GCP admins. Currently IBM software is retrieved from passport advantage client account. If you’re tasked with building out multiple IBM products on GCP VPCs and Compute Engine instances then setting up an install media repository that is fast and local is a must. This article describes […]

Target audience: Mid to Highly skilled Linux, MQ/IIB and GCP admins. IBM MQ and IIB have 2 distinct HA Architectures. MQ and IIB can be configured to have an Active Standby(2 live server) or an Active Passive(1 live server) HA configuration. Both MQ/IIB HA designs are publish documents. This article focuses on using just the […]

DevOps has come a long way in the past few years, evolving from a buzzword to a technical philosophy possessing a great deal of thought leadership. According to a recent survey of 300 enterprises by DigCert, adoption is occurring at an accelerated rate, finding that almost half (49 percent) of the respondents says they have […]

Attending MaximoWorld 2017? Drop by our booth #25 and say “hello.” We’re here and would love to talk with you about Maximo and your goals. Looking for integration help or other IBM Watson / IoT ideas? Let’s chat. We know there’s a lot to do in a short period of time and some fantastic sessions, […]

Standing out in the digital experience of every buyer’s journey serves to create attention that creates conversation and further accelerates interest. In recent years, we’ve seen the introduction of platforms that do just this, including Snapchat and Instagram Direct. Dubbed as ephemeral content, the experience created is temporary and powerful. According to social analytics firm […]

The changing tides of business and technology continue to influence how data – and more importantly, data breaches – are handled by organizations. With more information than ever created on the Internet by transactions including banking, home, and retail purchases, the possibility of a data breach continues to increase. On a yearly basis, we share […]

Customized IT solutions are exactly what they are – a specifically designed project where nothing comes out of the box. As our consultants have discovered with nearly two decades of work, nearly anything can happen anytime, anywhere. DevOps is one such example. Though it may seem simple and logical on the surface, successful initiatives require […]

We’re now well into the second half of 2017, with summer in full swing. As fast as the year has progressed, there’s still time to complete your innovation goals if you haven’t already. One goal of interest for many organizations is DevOps, an agile strategy focused on transforming organizational collaboration, communication, and go-to-market strategies. With […]

Sometimes, the best business ideas don’t come from within, but from your most engaged and raving fans. After all, since the customer is buying the product, shouldn’t they also have some say in what they are thinking about purchasing? Enter crowdsourcing, a term created by Jeff Howe back in 2006 to describe the act of […]

Yes, I blogged about this a couple months ago, but now we’re down to the wire. Maximo World is just around the corner and for some reason I keep thinking it’s next week, but we have one more week, it’s August 1-3, 2017. Now, why 55 reasons? Well, based on the emails I received this […]

IBM released Cumulative Fix (CF) 14 for WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager (WCM) in early July, 2017.  This fix will apply to either version 8.5 or 9.0.  IBM has moved to a continuous delivery model where they release cumulative fixes every few months to not only fix defects but also to deliver new capabilities.  […]