Interesting DB2 Concepts presentations

Here you go for the DB2 Presentations for its variety of features..
 
DB2 9 for z/OS RRF Overview & Not Logged Table Spaces
DB2 9 for z/OS Multi-Row Static Insert & Fetch – Coding it in COBOL
DB2 9 for z/OS Scalability
DB2 9 for z/OS Data Sharing
DB2 9 for z/OS Availability
DB2 9 for z/OS Detailed RRF & Reading [...]

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Steel giant outsources mainframe computing

Steel manufacturer Corus has extended its IT outsourcing deal to manage its mainframe computers with Capgemini through a number of contracts totalling £26m.
The new five-year outsourcing contracts will run through to 2013, with some of the IT work being offshored to Capgemini’s operations in India and Poland, as part of plans to significantly reduce mainframe [...]

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Xerox Extends Contract With EDS for Mainframe services

Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) and Xerox Corp. (XRX) Thursday announced a $263 million agreement in which EDS will manage and support Xerox’s end-user computing environment, deliver internal service desk services and provide mainframe services for an additional five years.
The information technology services agreement includes governance processes and a contract structure that allows for services [...]

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The Top 15 Reasons to Stay On/Move To The Mainframe

Willie, IBM Senior Certified Consulting IT Software Specialist is writing these interesting notes in his blog…
The title of the article is the title I used for this blog entry.
01. Lowest outage costs from highest platform reliability, availability, and serviceability
02. Lowest security breach risks/costs via most secure design, encryption, etc.
03. Highest resource use efficiency/utilization for mixed commercial [...]

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