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IDUG Db2 Tech Conference

IDUG Db2 TECH CONFERENCE Registrations Available! CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS Receive premium education from renowned industry thought leaders Free Certification Seminars & Exams Available! Db2 LUW 11.1 certification crammer session with Tony Winch, Datasync Consulting...

Is your data protection up to scratch?

The potential for violation of an organisation’s data security policies is often a perceived risk of using a hosted or cloud-based data warehouse. Yet these storage systems can be considered more solid solutions for data protection. When is an organisation's data...

Understanding the costs of data warehouse maintenance

The cost of data warehouse maintenance is one of the barriers that must be overcome before the long-term benefits of a reporting and analytics environment can be realised. However, most data practitioners are largely unaware of the many variables that contribute to...

How to build a data management platform that accelerates delivery

A data management platform, or data warehouse, may mean different things to different information consumers. In practice, data warehousing covers a broad spectrum of capabilities ranging from predefined reports to self-service queries, interactive analyses and complex...

Case Study – BLU Acceleration

“Datasync Consulting did an excellent job of getting us up to speed." Mark Minard, Technology Services Manager, Cerebos Australia Cerebos Australia is the owner of some of Australia and New Zealand’s best-known gravy, sauce, stock and coffee brands, including Saxa,...

New Free Developer Editions of DB2 LUW

IBM have recently and quietly expanded the Community Editions of DB2. It now includes two Non-Production licences with no charge. If you're new to DB2, these could of great help, or if you would like to use non-warranted versions within your organisation's development...

DB2 Technical Day 2017

IBM DB2 USERS - REGISTER NOW ! In 2017, IBM Australia proposes a half-yearly technical day for DB2 customers. Our aim is to provide a day-long event for technical DB2 users, offering the following: A stream of technical presentations and demonstrations on DB2 z/OS...

DB2 Tech Conference in Melbourne

The 2015 IDUG DB2 Tech Conference in Melbourne will represent great value by offering many hours of technical presentations plus the right to attend one full-day or two half-day Education Seminar(s) from some of the leading speakers in the DB2 community. Datasync's...

IBM Announces DB2 Cancun

IBM has announced DB2 LUW Cancun! Also known as Cancun Release 10.5.0.4 or DB2 10.5 FP4, this is a very exciting release for DB2 and pureScale. Want to know more? Hear details of this new release first-hand by attending the IDUG Australasia Conference in...

IDUG DB2 Tech Conference in Sydney

The 2014 IDUG Tech Conference is on September 10 - 12, 2014 at the Karstens Conference & Training Centre in Sydney. Robert Clow of Datasync Consulting will be presenting a DB2 10.1/10.5 certification class. Tony Winch of Datasync Consulting will be...

DB2 10.5 with BLU Accelerator

Announced April 3 2013 IBM® DB2® 10.5 with BLU Acceleration changes everything. BLU Acceleration enables users to have much faster access to key information, leading to better decision-making. The software extends the capabilities of traditional in-memory systems --...

Canberra DUG Presents DB2 V10

Canberra DUG invites you to attend a unique briefing session discussing IBM's latest release of DB2 V10. Guest speaker is Tony Winch, Principal Consultant of Datasync Consulting. Tony recently attended a multi-week in-depth DB2 10 Workshop in Toronto, Canada, and will...