Previously known for power but not usability, DB2 Universal Database has new easy-to-use wizards and strong support for open-standard XML and Java, making it a competitive solution. DB2's performance ...

DataKinetics, a provider of mainframe transaction and performance solutions, announced a solution designed to increase mainframe data capacity and throughput while decreasing data access request time ...

As is normal with a new version of DB2, IBM boasts of performance improvements available in DB2 11. The claims range from out-of-the-box savings ranging from 10% to 40% for different types of query ...

IBM’s BLU acceleration technology speeds DB2 queries against large data sets. Also, using DB2 could cut the labor costs of running a separate data warehouse, given that the pool of available database ...