DB2 11 is here

DB2 11: The Database for Critical Transactions & Analytics

Speed, Simplicity, Savings

DB2 11 for z/OS delivers new innovations: Save money, save time, reduce cost Enhanced continuous availability, scalability, and security for business-critical information Sophisticated Critical business analytics Simpler, faster migration for faster ROI Deep integration between DB2 and System z

IBM DB2 11 overview video:

 So what’s new in DB2 11 that is causing so much excitement? Here is a quick summary of some of the exciting new features and business benefits of DB2 11, about which this book will give you deeper insight:



• Even more out-of-the-box CPU savings


    10 percent complex OLTP

    10 percent update intensive batch

    40 percent queries

    25 percent uncompressed tables and 40% compressed tables



• Enhanced resiliency


    Fewer planned outages, fewer REORGs, faster recovery

    Cost-effective archiving, access warm/cold data in single query

    Business-critical analytics

    DB2 Analytics Accelerator performance enhancements

    Big data integration

    In-transaction real-time scoring

    Advanced QMF analytic capabilities with mobile support



• Simpler, faster upgrades for faster ROI


    6x faster catalog migration

    Protection from incompatible changes

    Repeatable testing with real workloads and integrated cloning

Big Data, IBM DB2 Accelerators:

Join Dan Wardman, VP of Information Management Mainframe Software, as he discusses Big Data and System z and explains why zEnterprise systems are a key data source for Big Data and Business Critical Analytics.

Big data can address a multitude of problems if you know how to use it. The insights gleaned from big data can help organizations deepen customer engagement, optimize operations, prevent threats and fraud, and capitalize on new sources of revenue. But to be successful, you need a clear understanding of the characteristics of big data and the skills required to manage it.

IBM Business Analytics and Optimization

2011 07 27_bao_client_presentation from albertspijkers

Delivers extremely fast query results for critical business insight

IBM® DB2® Analytics Accelerator for z/OS is a high-performance appliance that integrates IBM Netezza and zEnterprise technologies. The solution delivers extremely fast results for complex and data-intensive DB2 queries on data warehousing, business intelligence and analytic workloads.

DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS helps you:

•     Query data at high speeds—to significantly improve response times for unpredictable, complex and long-running query workloads.
•     Extend the capabilities of DB2 for z/OS—to support a cost-effective analytics solution for data warehousing, business intelligence and predictive analytics.
•     Lower operating costs—by reducing System z disk requirements and offloading query workloads to a high-performance platform.

Offers improved, broader analytics queries with latest release

IBM® DB2® Analytics Accelerator for z/OS delivers new features to support a broader set of applications and provide acceleration capabilities for most DB2 for z/OS customers. The software includes enhancements to support more data, queries, systems and applications, which can offer greater business benefits and cost savings.

The latest version of DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS provides these features and benefits:

•     Accelerates a broader spectrum of queries with support for Static SQL, multiple-row FETCH and multiple encodings on the same accelerator.
•     More robust and scalable for the enterprise through enhanced workload balancing, improved incremental update performance and improved monitoring.
•     Storage saver performance improvements including built-in restore, better access control for archived partitions and protection of moved partitions.
•     Supports DB2 11 and PureData Analytics N2001 hardware.

DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration:

Db2 10.5 technical_overview_2013_may29 from albertspijkers

Accelerating Analytics with BLU:

Ibm accelerating analitics with blu from albertspijkers

IBM DB2 10.5 Optimized for SAP Software:

Db2 10.5 optimized_for_sap_v1 from albertspijkers

IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator or IDAA

DB2 for z/OS has a new cool feature: the IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator or IDAA. The IDAA is a marriage of DB2 for z/OS and Netezza technology to accelerate complex queries in a highly secure and available environment. This 60 minute video will explain what it is exactly, how it works and why you would want such an accelerator. Click on the link below to start the presentation (opens new window). Enjoy! - See more at: http://www.db2-symposium.com/articles/category/the-wall/#sthash.Gz1T3zjm.dpuf

How IDAA Accelerators work and Why would want IBM IDAA Accelerators


Look at this article to get a quick introduction into DB2 UDB trace facility:

DB2 Basics: An introduction to the DB2 UDB trace facility


More information on what's new in DB2 11 can be found here:

DB2 11: The Database for Critical Transactions & Analytics

DB2 Information Management Tools and DB2 11 for z/OS Compatibility

from IBM Champion Craig Mullins

from Robert Catterall

from Willie Favero

IBM Data Management on TUMBLR

Flashbook: DB2 11 for z/OS - The Database for Big Data and Analytics

DBI Smarter Tools for Smarter People

DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration New Dynamic In-Memory Analytics for the Era of Big Data

SQL Tips for DB2 LUW by Serge Rielau (瑞赛奇) and Rick Swagerman

Discover DB2 for yourself



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DBA Consulting
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Oracle Database 12c Migration Overview and how to reduce risk

Oracle Database 12c Architecture Overview

Oracle Database 12c Multitenant Architecture Overview

Oracle Database Upgrade

Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c provides the latest in efficient, reliable, secure data management for mission-critical on-line transaction processing applications, query-intensive data warehouses, and cloud applications. The right planning, preparation, and upgrade steps will make the upgrade process simpler, faster, and more predictable from start to finish.  

White Paper: Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c

This white paper outlines the methods and alternatives available for you to upgrade and migrate your database to Oracle Database 12c.  Learn about different use cases and key factors to consider when choosing the method that best fits your requirements.

Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c 

Upgrade Compatibility Matrix

Wondering which versions are supported for direct upgrade to Oracle Database 12c? Here is the support note with that information.

 Database Server Upgrade/Downgrade Compatibility Matrix (Doc ID 551141.1) (My Oracle Support)

Mike Dietrich's Upgrade Blog

Database Upgrade Team member Mike Dietrich maintains a BLOG relating to Database Upgrade presentation, events and topics.

Oracle Database upgrade blog

Upgrade and Migration to Oracle Database 12c - Workshop Presentation   

This presentation covers a full day database upgrade and migration workshop with plenty of background information from installation and patching to various upgrade and migration techniques covering also fallback strategies, performance managements and application upgrades.

Upgrade, Migrate, and Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c  (~30M)

Manual Upgrades

This document provides a checklist to review prior to performing a manual Upgrade.

Complete Checklist for Manual Upgrades to Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) (Doc ID 1503653.1) (My Oracle Support)

DBUA Upgrades

If you plan on using the Database Upgrade Assistant to perform your upgrade, this document provides a check-list you should review first.

Complete Checklist for Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c Release 1 using DBUA (Doc ID 1516557.1) (My Oracle Support)

Upgrade Migrate & Consolidate to Oracle Database 12c

Upgrade and migrate_to_12c from albertspijkers

Different Ways to Upgrade, Migrate & Consolidate with Oracle Database 12c

Ace upgrade and_migrate from albertspijkers

Oracle Database 12c : What's new in Database Upgrade?

Whats new in_db_upgrade_12c from albertspijkers

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 information

 Much of this information applies to Oracle Database 12c as well, but the white papers and documents below were produced for Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Upgrade Methods

Get an overview of various Upgrade Methods that may be used to upgrade to Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

White Paper : White Paper on Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g   Release 2

Slides: Slide Show for Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g   Release 2

Best Practices

Review Oracle's Best Practices for upgrading your Oracle Database.

Best Practices - Upgrading to Oracle Database 11g Release 2   (April 2012)

Customer Migration: Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise

Read about using Oracle Real Application Testing as part of a database migration from Oracle9i Database to Oracle Database 11g.

Migrating Oracle9i Database to Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Database 11g Customer Upgrade

A paper discussing a customer Upgrade project taking their installed base from Oracle 9i to Oracle Database 11g. The paper covers planning through execution

Upgrading from Oracle 9i to Oracle Database 11g: A Real World Customer Experience (November 2008)

Minimal Downtime Upgrade using Oracle GoldenGate

The Oracle Grid Center is a joint effort between Oracle and Fujitsu to provide solutions that deliver safety and security to clients, including system construction, joint verification, and post-installation support. This white paper discusses procedures for upgrading Oracle Database using Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle’s real-time data integration software, as well as the results of such upgrades.

Best Practices for Migrating/Upgrading Oracle Database Using Oracle GoldenGate 11g   (June 2011)

Downgrade Methods

A white paper describing the available methods for downgrading to an earlier release of Oracle Database.

Methods for Downgrading from Oracle Database 11g Release 2   (September 2011)

Oracle Database 11.2 Upgrade Methods

Upgrade 11-2-methods-173002 from albertspijkers

Partner Webcast -- Oracle Database 12c: Reducing Upgrade Risk - 26/09/2013 (Part 1of2)

Oracle Database 12c includes exciting new features such as the Oracle Multitenant option, Oracle Active Data Guard Far Sync, information lifecycle management enhancements and new data types just to name a few.

Anyone wishing to take advantage of these and other new features will need to upgrade their existing databases to the latest Oracle Database 12c. Upgrading the database is a task that Database Administrators plan for, ahead of time, with great caution. This is because of the risk involved in upgrading a production system. This risk can be summarized in the following question:

How will the application(s) hosted by the database behave next to the upgrade?

Partner Webcast -- Oracle Database 12c: Reducing Upgrade Risk - 26/09/2013 (Part 2of2)

Oracle Database 12c includes exciting new features. Anyone wishing to take advantage of these and other new features will need to upgrade their existing databases to the latest Oracle Database 12c. Upgrading the database is a task that Database Administrators plan for, ahead of time, with great caution. This is because of the risk involved in upgrading a production system. This risk can be summarized in the following question:

How will the application(s) hosted by the database behave next to the upgrade?

This covers performance, but also functionality. Upgrading to Oracle Database 12c provides the latest in efficient, reliable, secure data management for mission-critical on-line transaction processing applications, query-intensive data warehouses, and content management and Web2.0 applications. The right planning, preparation, and upgrade steps will make the upgrade process simpler, faster, and more predictable from start to finish.

Complete Lifecycle Management of Pluggable Databases (aka Multitenant Option)

All Migration slides from Oracle ISV Migration Center:

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IT Security with EMMET 4.0

 

What is the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMMET)?

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited. EMET achieves this goal by using security mitigation technologies. These technologies function as special protections and obstacles that an exploit author must defeat to exploit software vulnerabilities. These security mitigation technologies do not guarantee that vulnerabilities cannot be exploited. However, they work to make exploitation as difficult as possible to perform.

The new EMET 4.0 also provides a configurable SSL/TLS certificate pinning feature that is called Certificate Trust. This feature is intended to detect man-in-the-middle attacks that are leveraging the public key infrastructure (PKI).

Are there restrictions as to the software that EMET can protect?

EMET can work together with any software, regardless of when it was written or by whom it was written. This includes software that is developed by Microsoft and software that is developed by other vendors. However, you should be aware that some software may not be compatible with EMET. For more information about compatibility, see the "Are there any risks in using EMET?" section.

What are the requirements for using EMET?

EMET 3.0 requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. EMET 4.0 requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0. Additionally, for EMET to work with Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, KB2790907 must be installed.

Where can I download EMET?

To download EMET, go to the related Microsoft TechNet page:

Download emmet 4.0
The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

How do I use EMET to protect my software?

After you install EMET, you must configure EMET to provide protection for a piece of software. This requires you to provide the name and location of the executable file that you want to protect. To do this, use one of the following methods:

Work with the Application Configuration feature of the graphical application.

Use the command prompt utility.

If you want to use the Certificate Trust feature that was released in EMET 4.0, you have to provide the list of the websites that you want to protect and certificate pinning rules that apply to those websites. To do this, you have to work with the Certificate Trust Configuration feature of the graphical application. Or, you can use the new Configuration Wizard. This enables you to automatically configure EMET with the recommended settings.

Note Instructions for how to use EMET are in the user's guide that is installed together with the toolkit.

How can I deploy EMET across the enterprise?

The easiest way to deploy the current version of EMET across an enterprise is by using enterprise deployment and configuration technologies. The current versions have built-in support for Group Policy and System Center Configuration Manager. For more information about how EMET supports these technologies, please refer to the EMET user's guide.

You can also deploy EMET by using the command prompt utility. To do this, follow these steps:

Install the .msi file on each destination computer. Or, put a copy of all the installed files on a network share.

Run the command prompt utility on each destination computer to configure EMET.

Are there any risks in using EMET?

The security mitigation technologies that EMET uses have an application-compatibility risk. Some applications rely on exactly the behavior that the mitigations block. It is important to thoroughly test EMET on all target computers by using test scenarios before you deploy EMET in a production environment. If you encounter a problem that affects a specific mitigation, you can individually enable and disable that specific mitigation. For more information, refer to the EMET user's guide.

What is the latest version of EMET?

A new version of EMET. EMMET 4.0 was made available on June 17, 2013. For more information about the latest version of EMET, go to the following TechNet website:

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

How can I get support for EMET?

Customers who are using EMET 3.0 or EMET 4.0 who have access to Microsoft Services Premier and Professional Support can receive fee-based advisory support through these channels. Customers who do not have Premier or Professional contracts can receive support through the following official support forum:

Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) Support

EMET is a free utility that helps prevent memory corruption vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited for code execution. It does so by opt-ing in software to the latest security mitigation techniques. The result is that a wide variety of software is made significantly more resistant to exploitation – even against zero day vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities for which an available update has not yet been applied.

The feature set for this new version of the tool was inspired by our desire for EMET to be an effective mitigation layer for a wider variety of potential software exploit scenarios, to provide stronger protections against scenarios where EMET protection already exists, and to have a way to respond to 0day exploits as soon as possible. Here are the highlights of the EMET 4.0 feature set:

• EMET 4.0 detects attacks leveraging suspicious SSL/TLS certificates

• EMET 4.0 strengthens existing mitigations and blocks known bypasses

• EMET 4.0 addresses known application compatibility issues with EMET 3.0

• EMET 4.0 enables an Early Warning Program for enterprise customers and for Microsoft

• EMET 4.0 allows customers to test mitigations with "Audit Mode"

SSL/TLS Certificate Trust features

EMET 4.0 allows users to configure a set of certificate pinning rules to validate digitally signed certificates (SSL/TLS certificates) while browsing with Internet Explorer. This option allows users to configure a set of rules able to match specific domains (through their SSL/TLS certificates) with the corresponding known Root Certificate Authority (RootCA) that issued the certificate. When EMET detects the variation of the issuing RootCA for a specific SSL certificate configured for a domain, it will report this anomaly as an indicator of a potential man-in-the-middle attack.

Advanced users can also add exceptions for each pinning rule. This will allow EMET to accept SSL/TLS certificates even if the pinning rule doesn’t match. Exceptions are related to some properties of the RootCA certificate, such as key size, hashing algorithm, and issuer country.

Strengthened mitigations, blocking bypasses

Microsoft learned a great deal during the "Technical Preview" phase of EMET 3.5. They saw researchers poking and presenting clever tricks to bypass EMET’s anti-ROP mitigations. EMET 4.0 blocks these bypasses. For example, instead of hooking and protecting only functions at the kernel32!VirtualAlloc layer of the call stack, EMET 4.0 will additional hook lower level functions such as kernelbase!VirtualAlloc and ntdll!NtAllocateVirtualMemory. These "Deep Hooks" can be configured in EMET’s Advanced Configuration. Microsoft has seen exploits attempt to evade EMET hooks by executing a copy of the hooked function prologue and then jumping to the function past the prologue. With EMET 4.0’s "Anti detours" option enabled, common shellcode using this technique will be blocked. Finally, EMET 4.0 also includes a mechanism to block calls to banned API’s. For example, a recent presentation at CanSecWest 2013 presented a method of bypassing ASLR and DEP via ntdll!LdrHotPatchRoutine. EMET 4.0’s "Banned API" feature blocks this technique.

Application compatibility fixes

Users of previous versions of EMET had encountered isolated compatibility issues when enabling mitigations on both Microsoft and third party software. EMET 4.0 addresses all these known app-compat issues. That list includes issues in the following areas:

- Internet Explorer 9 and the Snipping Tool

- Internet Explorer 8’s Managed Add-ons dialog

- Office software through SharePoint

- Access 2010 with certain mitigations enabled

- Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8

The EMET 4.0 installer also opts-in protection rules with certain mitigations disabled where Microsocft knows a mitigation interacts poorly with certain software. Examples include Photoshop, Office 2013’s Lync, GTalk, wmplayer, and Chrome.

Early Warning Program for enterprise customers and for Microsoft

When an exploitation attempt is detected and blocked by EMET, a set of information related to the attack is prepared with the Microsoft Error Reporting (MER) functionality. For enterprise customers collecting error reports via tools like Microsoft Desktop Optimization Package or the Client Monitoring feature of System Center Operations Manager, these error reports can be triaged locally and used as an early warning program indicating possible attacks against the corporate network. For organizations that typically send all error reports to Microsoft, this information will add to the set of indicators we use to hunt attacks in the wild, and will facilitate the remediation of issues with security updates before vulnerabilities become a large scale threat. The EMET Privacy Statement (available also via the main EMET window) includes more information about the type of data that will be sent in the error report via Microsoft Error Reporting. The Early Warning Program is enabled by default for the EMET 4.0 Beta and can be disabled in the EMET UI or via the EMET command line component. We are eager to hear customer feedback about this feature to help shape the Early Warning Program for the EMET 4.0 final release.

Audit Mode

When previous versions of EMET detected exploitation attempts, it would report the attack via the EMET agent and then terminate the program to block the attack. For EMET 4.0, in response to customer feedback, we provided an option to configure EMET’s behavior when it detects an exploitation attempt. The default option remains to terminate the application. However, customers wanting to test EMET in a production environment can instead switch to "Audit Mode" to report the exploitation attempt but not terminate the process. This setting is not applicable for all mitigations but we provide this option whenever possible.

Other Improvements

EMET 4.0 includes a bunch of other improvements. The quantity of new features and volume of work put into this release is the reason Micorosft skipped the EMET 3.5 full release and jumped straight to EMET 4.0. Please refer to the EMET 4.0 Beta Users Guide for the full set of features but here are several other highlights:

- EMET Notifier becomes EMET Agent, with new duties and functionalities

- More granular reporting options (tray icon, event log, both, or none)

- New default profiles for both mitigations and Certificate Trust

- Registry configuration to customize the EMET Agent’s messaging

- Optimized RopCheck for significantly better performance

- Numerous UI tweaks to make EMET easier to use

- Enable wildcard support when adding applications to be protected

- Allow processes to be protected even if they do not have .exe extension

- Switched to .NET Framework 4.0

- EMET is an officially supported Microsoft tool with support available for customers with Premier contract

Defcon 21-sikka-emet-4.0-pki-mitigation from albertspijkers

First, a quick overview of what EMET does. EMET allows users to force applications to use several key security defenses built into Windows — including Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP). Put very simply, DEP is designed to make it harder to exploit security vulnerabilities on Windows, and ASLR makes it more difficult for exploits and malware to find the specific places in a system’s memory that they need to do their dirty work.

EMET can force a non-Microsoft application to perform ASLR on every component it loads, whether the program wants it or not. Please note that before you install EMET, you’ll need to have Microsoft’s .NET Framwork 4 platform installed. And while EMET does work on Windows XP (Service Pack 3 only), XP users cannot take advantage of mandatory ASLR and a few other notable protections included in this tool.

However, EMET includes several important security features that can help fortify third-party applications on XP. Namely, its "Structured Exception Handler Overwrite Protection," or SEHOP protection, which guards against the most common technique for exploiting stack overflows on Windows. Microsoft says this mitigation has shipped with Windows ever since Windows Vista Service Pack 1.

In addition to a revised user interface, EMET 4.0 includes a handful of new features that were bundled with the 3.5 tech preview version, such as novel methods of blocking an exploit technique called return-oriented programming (ROP). Attackers can leverage ROP to bypass DEP protections by using snippets of code that are already present in the targeted application.

One of the much-hyped new capabilities of EMET 4.0 is its "certificate trust" feature, which is designed to block so-called "man-in-the-middle" attacks that leverage counterfeit SSL certificates in the browser. The past few years saw several attacks that impersonated Webmail providers and other top Internet destinations using fraudulent digital certificates obtained by certificate authorities, including Comodo, DigitNotar and Turktrust. This feature is a nice idea, but it seems somewhat clunky to implement, and only works to protect users who browse the Web with Internet Explorer. For tips on configuring and using this feature of EMET, check out this post.

If you have questions about EMET or run into issues with the program, check out the Microsoft support page for EMET
EMMET Support



, which lets you to submit questions to the user community if you don’t see your problem addressed in a previous support thread.

The chart above indicates which system- and application-specific protections in EMET 4.0 are available for each supported version of Windows. Visit this link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273 to download EMET 4.0, as well as a detailed user guide on the software.


For more information please contact me at:


Drs. Albert Spijkers
DBA Consulting
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Windows Server 2012 your OS platform of choice!

Windows Server 2012 your OS platform of choice!

Windows Server 2012 Overview

Windows Server 2012 brings Microsoft’s experience building and operating public clouds to the server operating system, making it a dynamic, highly available, and cost-effective platform for private clouds and on-premise datacenters. It can take you Beyond Virtualization while offering The Power of Many Servers, and the Simplicity of One. It helps with Every App, Any Cloud, and offers to help Enable the Modern Work Style. Learn what Microsoft means by all that and furthermore, experience this in a number of demos showing exciting new features and scenarios.

Windows server2012 overview wsv205 from albertspijkers

Hyper-V - What's New in Windows Server 2012 R2

Learn about the new features and functionality in Windows Server vNext in Hyper-V.

Server2012 whatsnewinhyperv from albertspijkers

New Networking Diagnostics with Powershell in Windows Server r2

Server2012 whatsnewinnetworking from albertspijkers

http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2013/07/31/new-networking-diagnostics-with-powershell-in-windows-server-r2.aspx

Transforming your Datacenter with Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2013/06/06/transforming-your-datacenter-with-software-defined-networking-sdn.aspx

Securing Windows Server 2012

Use these tools to help assess security risks, identify missing security updates, and manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 4.0

The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool is a risk-assessment application designed to provide information and recommendations about best practices for security within an IT infrastructure.

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.2 (for IT pros)

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations.

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager

This Solution Accelerator provides centralized security baseline management features, a baseline portfolio, customization capabilities, and security baseline export flexibility to accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

Security Tools to Administer Windows Server 2012:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj730960.aspx

Inside Windows Server 2012 Multi-Server Management Capabilities

Windows Server 2012 will offer excellent total cost of ownership as an integrated platform with comprehensive, multicomputer manageability. Two areas in which Windows Server 2012 improves multicomputer management are Server Manager and Windows PowerShell 3.0. Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 helps you efficiently deploy and manage roles and features on the local server, on remote servers, and on both online and offline virtual hard disks. It also provides a multi-server experience where you can centralize your Windows Server management in a single view, and streamlined your server configuration and deployment from the same window. Windows PowerShell 3.0 provides an extensive platform to help you manage server roles and automate management tasks. With access to over 2300 commandlets (a tenfold increase from the previous version), Windows PowerShell 3.0 offers comprehensive management across your datacenter. This session overviews these subjects in detail and prepares you for enhancing your management capability.

Windows sever 2012 management wsv306 from albertspijkers

Windows Server Blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/

For more information please contact me at:


Drs. Albert Spijkers
DBA Consulting
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blog:            DBA Consulting blog
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IBM TeaLeaf

IBM TeaLeaf

IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience Management solutions help customer-centric organizations deliver better digital customer experience. From e-commerce professionals, to digital marketers and business executives, as well as IT and customer service staff, IBM Tealeaf solutions provide an incisive "view" of the digital customer that empowers organizations to deliver better web and mobile experiences and provide more effective customer service. IBM Tealeaf solutions help companies increase online conversation rates, raise customer retention rates and improve customer satisfaction. Customer Experience Management solutions are an integral offering in the IBM Enterprise Marketing Management product suite.

Using groundbreaking technology, IBM Tealeaf solutions capture and record every digital customer interaction, and how the site or application responds in real-time. By capturing every customer visit, IBM Tealeaf solutions visualize the qualitative details of every single interaction, uniquely helping businesses understand user actions and unexpected business results. This rich customer experience dataset then fuels quantitative assessments of the negative business impact that results from customer’s online or mobile struggles, and helps prioritize opportunities for improvement and innovation.
With IBM Tealeaf solutions, e-businesses benefit from:

• Maximizing the value of every single customer visit (web and mobile) and ensuring that more transactions are completed successfully.
• Immediate visibility into the struggles affecting customer behavior and their business impact (without tagging or impacting site performance or reliability).
• Rapid resolution of hard-to-find usability, system or application problems.
• Improved customer service when agents have instant access to online customer sessions.
• Preserving digital customer interactions to resolve customer disputes quickly and accurately.

For any online business facing pressure to increase revenue and reduce costs, Customer Experience Management is an essential. IBM Tealeaf solutions provide the ability to pinpoint customer struggles on websites in real-time. Organizations can intercept problem spots and remove roadblocks to maximize conversions, revenue and customer loyalty.

IBM Tealeaf Mobile

IBM Tealeaf Overview

Tealeaf overview from albertspijkers

Watch Zions Bancorporation discuss how they used IBM Tealeaf solutions to create user interfaces -- for both web and mobile -- that were easier to use, more customer friendly, and provided better results.

Introduction to IBM MobileFirst Analytics with TeaLeaf

With the rapid adoption of mobile devices, consumers now have the ability to conduct transactions anywhere, anytime. To succeed in this burgeoning new business channel, you must deliver mobile services and features that your customers will adopt and use productively. Yet most e-businesses today have a limited understanding of how their customers are engaging with them on mobile channels.
Given the magnitude of mobile variables—including the abundance of devices and browsers—the risk of customers encountering obstacles is inherently greater. Some of these issues are technical but many of the things that cause customers to struggle are related to business process and usability, making them harder to detect, diagnose and resolve effectively.

This session provides an introduction to the IBM MobileFirst Anlaytics

Tealeaf is the industry leading Customer Experience Management Solution (CEM). Within transactional eComerce and Self-Serve applications Tealeaf helps companies make web site optimization decisions faster and smarter than they ever could before. This is done by identifying segments of customers having a bad experience, allowing Tealeaf users to replay those experiences to learn why they are struggling and then to rapidly create a business case against their learning's so that optimizations can be prioritized by business impact. Regardless of the web channel: traditional fixed web, mobile web, or native application, Tealeaf ensures the success of online customers.





Mobile apps are different, and so are the techniques required to distribute and manage them. Learn how the IBM Worklight Application Center makes it easy to distribute, govern, and collect feedback on mobile apps. For more information, visit ibm.com/worklight.




Learn more at:  IBM Tealeaf Home Page

IBM Many Eyes

What is the future of visual analysis? Imagine if business decision makers easily uncover business patterns and trends not readily apparent in a standard spreadsheet. Visualization helps to uncover insights hidden in the raw data. Imagine capturing your path of analysis and sharing that within the team with other team members collaborating with you on the same visualization. Imagine taking the power of that visualization and interacting with it on your mobile device or web just as you would on the desktop. Join IBM Many Eyes and usher in the future of visual analytics.

IBM Many Eyes is a community that connects visualization experts, practitioners, academics and enthusiasts. Many Eyes democratizes visualization. In three easy steps you can create your own visualization using your own public data set. On the Many Eyes website, you can find expertise contributions from IBM visualization luminaries and IBM Research's Center for Advanced Visualization. These contributions and more provide guidance on creating the most effective visualizations while describing new trends and advances in visualization.

Bring your data to life at http://www.ibm.com/manyeyes.

The Four Pillars of Effective Visualizations

As a member of the IBM Center for Innovation and Visual Analytics, Noah Iliinsky works to create new and innovative domain-specific visualizations while working with IBM clients to create effective and efficient visualizations that yield insights and answers into their business quickly.

This talk, delivered at Strata 2013, discusses the broad design considerations necessary for effective visualizations. You will learn what's required for a visualization to be successful, gain insight for critically evaluating visualizations they encounter, and come away with new ways to think about the visualization design process.

To be most effective, a visualization must have, in this order: Purpose (Why are we creating this visualization? Who is it for?) Content (What data matters? What relationships matter?) Structure (How do we best reveal those data and relationships?) Formatting (How does it look & feel? How will it be consumed?)

For additional visualization insights from Noah and other IBM visualization luminaries, visit http://www.ibm.com/manyeyes a community of over 100,000 visualization professionals and enthusiasts.

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