DB2 for LUW

DATE: 2010-5-11 (12:30 PM - 01:30 PM)
SPEAKERS: Bill Minor (IBM)

Controlling data growth and optimizing storage use are critical for keeping costs in check and ensuring peak performance. Consolidation or mergers, regulatory compliance and increased demand for business analytics and data mining are causing data volumes to proliferate. Consequently, it is important to be able to understand, choose and maintain the right storage strategy in order to meet your business objectives and successfully work within restricted operating budgets. This session will focus on new features and Best Practices for successfully deploying and utilizing the storage management capabilities of DB2 V9.7. Topics of discussion will include compression, utility maintenance, data evolution, data life cycle management, space reclaim, and monitoring.

EXP. LEVEL: Intermediate

OBJECTIVES:

Illustrate the new storage capabilities of DB2 LUW V9.7

Demonstrate approaches for ease of feature implementation

Demonstrate improvements in availability, monitoring, and performance of DBA tasks

Gain an understanding of how DB2's storage capability can reduce your Total Cost of Ownership

Relate Best Practices for maximizing your Return on Investment