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Events
NEON Enterprise Software is looking forward to you joining us at our events.
| 2008
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| Nov. 17-18 |
IDUG Regional Forum
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Camp Hill, PA |
Website: IDUG
Location: TBD
Abstracts:
DB2 9 for Developers Only!
This presentation highlights the DB2 9 for z/OS enhancements that directly impact DB2 application developers. Every release of DB2 is chock full of new features and functionality and that can make it hard to focus on those things that are most helpful for programmers. So instead of scanning volumes of manuals, you can watch this presentation distills the DB2 9 information down to cover what should be most important to programmer/analysts.
Examples of areas this presentation will cover include:
- A brief overview of DB2 9 XML capability
- New data types and functions
- New SQL statements like INTERSECT, EXCEPT, MERGE, and TRUNCATE
- The ability to SELECT FROM and UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE statement
- Improvements to existing SQL
- And more…
If you are a programmer wanting to learn more about DB2 9, or a DBA looking for the programmer’s perspective on DB2 9, this presentation should have something to offer you.
Presented by Craig S. Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NEON
DB2 for z/OS: Staying Out of a Jam with Recovery AssuranceExpert™
Are you certain you can recover your DB2 tables quickly? Are you certain you can recover your tables at all? Sure you are, right?
With Recovery AssuranceExpert™ you can make those assertions with greater conviction. You and your management can both sleep better.
In this session we will explore the following:
- RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) and why there are important.
- Threats, subtle and not so subtle, to your ability to recover DB2 objects.
- Surprising threats you may never have thought of, and the list keeps growing…
- Using Recovery AssuranceExpert™ to find threats and inform stakeholders.
- Field scenarios and what we discovered.
Presented by Michael Figaro,
Senior Software Consultant, NEON
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| Nov. 19-20 |
IDUG Regional Forum
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Lexea, KS |
Website: IDUG
Location: IBM Facility
Abstracts:
DB2 9 for Developers Only!
This presentation highlights the DB2 9 for z/OS enhancements that directly impact DB2 application developers. Every release of DB2 is chock full of new features and functionality and that can make it hard to focus on those things that are most helpful for programmers. So instead of scanning volumes of manuals, you can watch this presentation distills the DB2 9 information down to cover what should be most important to programmer/analysts.
Examples of areas this presentation will cover include:
- A brief overview of DB2 9 XML capability
- New data types and functions
- New SQL statements like INTERSECT, EXCEPT, MERGE, and TRUNCATE
- The ability to SELECT FROM and UPDATE, DELETE, or MERGE statement
- Improvements to existing SQL
- And more…
If you are a programmer wanting to learn more about DB2 9, or a DBA looking for the programmer’s perspective on DB2 9, this presentation should have something to offer you.
Presented by Craig S. Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NEON
DB2 for z/OS: Staying Out of a Jam with Recovery AssuranceExpert™
Are you certain you can recover your DB2 tables quickly? Are you certain you can recover your tables at all? Sure you are, right?
With Recovery AssuranceExpert™ you can make those assertions with greater conviction. You and your management can both sleep better.
In this session we will explore the following:
- RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) and why there are important.
- Threats, subtle and not so subtle, to your ability to recover DB2 objects.
- Surprising threats you may never have thought of, and the list keeps growing…
- Using Recovery AssuranceExpert™ to find threats and inform stakeholders.
- Field scenarios and what we discovered.
Presented by Michael Figaro,
Senior Software Consultant, NEON
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| Dec. 2 |
Minneapolis DB2 Users Group
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Minneapolis, MN |
Website: TCDBUG
Location: IBM, 3rd Floor
Abstracts:
Presentation: Database Trends 2008
Database Management Systems are at the heart of most modern computer applications. Whether you use DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, or some other DBMS, chances are you rely on a database to store, protect, and serve your organization's data. But database systems and related technology are changing rapidly. This presentation will take a look at the major trends impacting DBMSs in order to help clarify all of that new stuff your DBMS does - or will do very soon - and what these changes mean to DBAs.
Presented by Craig Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NESI
Database Auditing: Who did what to which data when and how?
The combination of increasing government regulation and the need for securing corporate data has driven up the need to track who is accessing data in our corporate databases. This presentation discusses these drivers as well as presenting the requirements for auditing access to data stored in database management systems.
The goal of this presentation is to review the regulations impacting the need to audit, and then to discuss in detail the kinds of things that may need to be audited, along with the pros and cons of several ways of accomplishing this.
Presented by Craig S. Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NEON
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| Dec. 4 |
Wisconsin DB2 Users Group
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Milwaukee, WI |
Website: WDUG
Location: Northwestern Mutual Life
Abstracts:
Data Breach Protection: From a DB2 Perspective
Anyone who has been paying attention lately knows at least something about the large number of data breaches that have been in the news. Data breaches and the threat of lost or stolen data will continue to plague organizations until comprehensive plans are enacted to combat them. Although many of these breaches have not been at the database level, some have, and more will be unless better data protection policies and procedures are enacted on operational databases.
This presentation will provide an overview of the problem, providing examples of data breaches, their associated cost, and series of best practices for protecting your valuable production data.
Attend Craig's presentation and avoid having your company's name splashed on the front page because you did not adequately protect your databases.
You will -
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Understand the various laws that have been enacted to combat data breaches and the trends toward increasing legislation |
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Learn how to calculate the cost of a data breach based on industry best practices and research from leading analysts |
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Gain knowledge of several best practices for managing data with the goal of protecting the data from surreptitious or nefarious access (and/or modification) |
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Learn about the available techniques for securing, encrypting, and masking data to minimize exposure of critical data |
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Uncover new data best practices for auditing access to database data and for protecting data stored for long-term retention |
Hosted by Craig S. Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NEON
Database Auditing: Who did what to which data when and how?
The combination of increasing government regulation and the need for securing corporate data has driven up the need to track who is accessing data in our corporate databases. This presentation discusses these drivers as well as presenting the requirements for auditing access to data stored in database management systems.
The goal of this presentation is to review the regulations impacting the need to audit, and then to discuss in detail the kinds of things that may need to be audited, along with the pros and cons of several ways of accomplishing this.
Presented by Craig S. Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NEON
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| Dec. 9 |
Richmond DB2 Users Group
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Richmond, VA |
Website: RICDUG
Location: 9201 Arboretum Parkway
Abstracts:
Database Auditing: Who did what to which data when and how?
The combination of increasing government regulation and the need for securing corporate data has driven up the need to track who is accessing data in our corporate databases. This presentation discusses these drivers as well as presenting the requirements for auditing access to data stored in database management systems.
The goal of this presentation is to review the regulations impacting the need to audit, and then to discuss in detail the kinds of things that may need to be audited, along with the pros and cons of several ways of accomplishing this.
Presented by Craig Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NESI
DB2 Performance Tuning Roadmap
This presentation will discuss DB2 for z/OS performance management and tuning issues. It offers multiple guidelines and tips for achieving optimal performance broken down into specific categories. The presentation will touch on many aspects of DB2 performance that span the application, the databases, and the overall system. Refresh your knowledge of DB2 performance with these handy DB2 oppor-TUNE-ities.
Presented by Craig Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NESI
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| Dec. 11 |
Michigan DB2 Users Group
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Novi, MI |
| 2009
Event Calendar |
| DATES |
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LOCATION |
| March 2-6 |
SHARE
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Austin, Texas |
Website: SHARE
Location: Austin Convention Center
Abstracts:
zIIP Up Your IMS Processing!
zIIP processors-a specialty mainframe processing engine from IBM-are now
available for IMS processing. You can reduce the cost of IMS database
maintenance-as well as other computing costs on the mainframe-by using
zIIP processors for IMS work. Join Tom Harper, lead developer on the IMS
Database Utilities Development Team, to find out how you can reduce
general processor MIPs usage by offloading IMS work to a zIIP processor
using the Eclipse Reorganization Utilities for IMS.
Presented by Tom Harper,
Product Author, NEON
DB2 Performance Tuning Roadmap
This presentation will discuss DB2 for z/OS performance management and tuning issues. It offers multiple guidelines and tips for achieving optimal performance broken down into specific categories. The presentation will touch on many aspects of DB2 performance that span the application, the databases, and the overall system. Refresh your knowledge of DB2 performance with these handy DB2 oppor-TUNE-ities.
Presented by Craig Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NESI
Database Auditing: Who did what to which data when and how?
The combination of increasing government regulation and the need for securing corporate data has driven up the need to track who is accessing data in our corporate databases. This presentation discusses these drivers as well as presenting the requirements for auditing access to data stored in database management systems.
The goal of this presentation is to review the regulations impacting the need to audit, and then to discuss in detail the kinds of things that may need to be audited, along with the pros and cons of several ways of accomplishing this.
Presented by Craig S. Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NEON
zNextGen Project Opening & Keynote
This is the opening session for the zNextGen Project, open to
all attendees. The project officers will take about 20 minutes to
introduce the zNextGen community, describe our mission and welcome back
returning members. This time will also be used to point out important
zNextGen meeting points and activities throughout the week, as well as
recommended technical sessions. The remaining Project Opening time will
be reserved for the keynote speaker and spent with executive sponsors
speaking about zNextGen and other issues of importance to new
mainframers.
zNextGen Huddle: 5 Hot Topics
In this new session, we will gather into 5 groups in order to
discuss 5 hot topics to be presented during the session. While engaging
in important conversations and friendly debates, each group will learn
more about their topic and come to important conclusions that will be
shared with the other groups at the end of the session. Come SHARE your
thoughts and be a part of this exciting group session!
zNextGen's Game of Mainframe Jeopardy!
zNextGen's second bi-annual Game of Mainframe Jeopardy! You've
seen the show, you know Alex Trebec - now come join in the game and test
your knowledge on the mainframe and SHARE. An entertaining hour of fun
and educational Q&A, with prizes and excitement for all! zNextGen's Game
of Mainframe Jeopardy is sure to educate, amuse, and enthuse all
attendees!
What Does an Application Developer Do Anyway? A Dual Experience Perspective
Are you interested in becoming an Application Developer? Do you
work closely with developers but aren't sure what they really do? What
happens in the daily life of an Application Developer will be revealed
to you in this intergenerational session as Tom Harper and Kristine
Harper Neely discuss their careers. Learn about the needed skills, the
challenges faced, and the opportunities and benefits that come along
with being an Application Developer. This father-daughter team will
show the world from a new Application Developer's viewpoint and how
things will change as one evolves into an experienced Application
Developer.
zNextGen Project Wrap-Up
This session will wrap things up in preparation for the next
SHARE. It will begin with a review of how SHARE in Austin has gone,
then discuss other issues of current or pending importance to members of
zNextGen (including plans for Denver), and will conclude with an open
discussion with all attendees. Plus, we will present our 2nd edition of
the zNextGen Best Session Awards! This session is open to both members
and nonmembers of the zNextGen project. Planning: Based on a review of
the week's activities, we will develop an initial plan for zNextGen
involvement at the next SHARE meeting. Ideas welcome! If you have any
interest in zNextGen, please join us! We encourage new mainframers to
come aboard and those with experience to come support our project.
zNextGen Project Working and Planning Session
Have you ever wondered how everything works at SHARE and the
zNextGen project? We sure have, and we decided to have this session to
figure it out. Join us at this round table when we'll furnish our
sessions with chairs (and make other mysterious and fun decisions).
Presented by Kristine Neely,
Developer, NEON
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| April 5-9 |
Enterprise Data World
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Tampa, FL |
Website: Enterprise Data World
Location: Tampa Convention Center
Abstracts:
Database Auditing: Who did what to which data when and how?
The combination of increasing government regulation and the need for securing corporate data has driven up the need to track who is accessing data in our corporate databases. This presentation discusses these drivers as well as presenting the requirements for auditing access to data stored in database management systems.
The goal of this presentation is to review the regulations impacting the need to audit, and then to discuss in detail the kinds of things that may need to be audited, along with the pros and cons of several ways of accomplishing this.
Presented by Craig S. Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NEON
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| May 11-15 |
IDUG North America
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Denver, Colorado |
Website: IDUG
Location: Colorado Convention Center
Abstract:
Counting Down the Performance Top Forty
Assuring optimal performance for database applications is the most time-consuming task for most DBAs. Planning and implementing databases and systems with performance in mind is the best approach to help minimize the overarching burden of constant performance tuning and tweaking. This presentation will count down 40 of the more important facets of performance-focused DB2 tips and techniques so you will be better armed to battle the DB2 performance beast.
- Experience the countdown from number 40 to number 1
- Learn about performance-oriented DB2 design
- Review performance best practices for DB2 applications and databases
- Build efficient SQL and applications
- Discuss both things to do and to avoid doing
Presented by Craig S. Mullins,
Corporate Technologist, NEON
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| Recorded Webinars |
| RECORDED |
WEBINAR |
Skyrocketing data volumes in conjunction with increasing governmental regulations conspire to make it difficult to ensure compliance. As required data retention periods increase it becomes imperative that organizations develop a solid practice for archiving and managing business data from their online operational databases.
The presentation offers an overview of the environment driving the need to archive database data, and describes how NEON Enterprise Software’s TITAN Archive delivers a comprehensive database archiving solution.
Presented by Craig Mullins, NEON
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This presentation offers advice, guidelines, and observations on DB2 performance, administration, and development. The information is presented in a humorous fashion in the format of a series of Top Ten lists - kind of like if David Letterman were a DBA. This presentation was voted as one of the top presentations of IDUG in Denver.
Presented by Craig S. Mullins, NEON
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| August 29, 2007 |
Automate Critical DB2 Database Maintenance AND Reduce CPU with RealTime DBAExpert
Listen Now!
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Looking for ways to reduce DB2 database maintenance costs? Learn how RealTime DBAExpert helps you accomplish this. With RealTime DBAExpert, you can identify and automatically schedule maintenance on an as-needed basis, eliminating unnecessary and costly utility jobs. Discover how RealTime DBAExpert exploits the use of RealTime Statistics to reduce the need for Runstats. Eliminate the need for pre-maintenance Runstats and Runstats-like scans and substantially reduce the need for post-maintenance Runstats and Runstats-like scans. RealTime DBAExpert enables on-demand scheduling that can reduce or eliminate database maintenance windows. Come learn how RealTime DBAExpert can reduce costs and help you perform DB2 database maintenance more efficiently.
Presented by Joe Brockert, NEON
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| September 19, 2007 |
Chicken Soup for the DBA
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This presentation offers a roadmap of sorts for DBAs at a higher level than just the bits and bytes. Based on the successful "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, this presentation offers database administration tasks, procedures, and operations. Topics covered include:
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Offers a framework for DB2 database administration |
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Provides control objectives for DBAs to ensure an effective DB2 environment |
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Offers best practices for DBA tasks such as database design, performance management, etc. |
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How to expand your horizons from being viewed only as technicians to being viewed as integral to the business |
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Guidance on how to interact with other IT professionals |
Presented by Craig S. Mullins, NEON
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| Feb. 12, 2008 |
Get Control of Access Path Changes for Dynamic SQL When Migrating to a New Version of DB2
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Are you making plans to migrate to a new version of DB2? Do you know what impact the access changes for dynamic SQL will have on performance? When migrating to a new DB2 version, access path changes for dynamic SQL are unpredictable – as is the impact those changes will have on application performance. Learn how you can use Bind ImpactExpert to eliminate the unwanted surprises in version migration by performing a “precheck” on dynamic SQL access path changes.
Join Craig Mullins, DB2 Expert, and Joe Brockert, Sr. Software Consultant, for a discussion about the issues associated with dynamic SQL during a DB2 migration and a live demo of Bind ImpactExpert. See the solution that provides predictability in access path changes.
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| April 10, 2008 |
Change Control for DB2 Access Paths
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Most changes are strictly controlled in the mainframe environment. But that is not the case for DB2 access paths. When we BIND or REBIND a program, DB2 formulates access paths "on the fly" and we do not have any control over what DB2 creates. This lack of control over changes can cause unpredictable performance.
NEON's Bind ImpactExpert product can help you analyze and manage access path changes, thus delivering better control over DB2 applications. Whether upgrading to a new version of DB2, introducing program changes, or simply rebinding for performance, Bind ImpactExpert helps bring a change control discipline to the DB2 access path generation process.
Join Craig Mullins, DB2 Expert, and Joe Brockert, Sr. Software Consultant, for a discussion about managing access paths and a live demo of Bind ImpactExpert. See the solution that provides predictability in access path changes.
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July 29, 2008
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Protect Against Data Breaches—Auditing Mainframe Databases with No Impact to Business Performance Webinar
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Protecting corporate data is a requirement of doing business in today's regulatory and security-minded business environment. Protecting corporate data—an especially sensitive data—is a matter of knowing who is accessing data and what are they doing with it. There have been many solutions for addressing this need on distributed databases, but no reasonable solution for protecting mainframe data until now.
This webinar introduces Guardium for Mainframes, the only database auditing solution available that provides 100% visibility into mainframe database activities without impacting normal business operations. See how the product gives you better insight into database activity without the performance penalty of typical database trace utilities and without relying on inadequate log file data. Guardium for Mainframes provides 100% visibility into all database activities, letting you identify access to sensitive data and potential security breaches, in real-time, and without sacrificing performance or availability.
Presented by Bill Baker, Software Consultant, NEON
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Aug. 27, 2008
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Data Breach Protection: From a Database Perspective
Listen now!
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Anyone who has been paying attention lately knows at least something about the large number of data breaches that have been in the news. Data breaches and the threat of lost or stolen data will continue to plague organizations until comprehensive plans are enacted to combat them. Although many of these breaches have not been at the database level, some have, and more will be unless better data protection policies and procedures are enacted on operational databases.
This presentation will provide an overview of the problem, providing examples of data breaches, their associated cost, and series of best practices for protecting your valuable production data.
Attend Craig's presentation and avoid having your company's name splashed on the front page because you did not adequately protect your databases.
- Understand the various laws that have been enacted to combat data breaches and the trends toward increasing legislation
- Learn how to calculate the cost of a data breach based on industry best practices and research from leading analysts
- Gain knowledge of several best practices for managing data with the goal of protecting the data from surreptitious or nefarious access (and/or modification)
- Learn about the available techniques for securing, encrypting, and masking data to minimize exposure of critical data
- Uncover new data best practices for auditing access to database data and for protecting data stored for long-term retention
Presented by Craig Mullins, Corporate Technologist, NEON
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Sept. 24, 2008
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Database Auditing: Who did what to which data when and how?
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As the list of government regulations impacting IT grows organizations must adapt to understand and comply with new rules. This increasing compliance pressure is particularly intense on data stored in corporate databases. As such, organization need to be ever more vigilant in the techniques used to protect their data, and monitor access.
Database auditing, sometimes called data access auditing, is one technique growing in popularity as a response to the demands of regulatory compliance. At a high level, database auditing is basically a facility to track the use of database resources and authority. It can be used to help answer questions like “Who accessed or changed data?” and “What was actually changed?” and “When did it change?” This presentation will discuss the issues and requirements driving database auditing and serve as a roadmap of sorts for your data access auditing needs.
Presented by Craig Mullins, Corporate Technologist, NEON
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| Oct. 23, 2008 |
Assuring the Recoverability of Your DB2 Databases
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But how many of us can answer, with any degree of certainty, the question “How long will this outage last?” This webinar will tackle these issues, including a discussion of regulations, IT complexity, and business continuity, We’ll also make the case that planning for database recoverability is the most important task among the many tasks of the DBA.
And we will also introduce and demonstrate Recovery AssuranceExpert, a new technology to help you ensure that all of your critical DB2 objects are recoverable within your recovery time objectives. Recovery AssuranceExpert is an automated solution to perform daily health checks of data availability and recoverability, as well as provide actual recovery times required for a DB2 object, a complete application, or even a whole DB2 subsystem. Join in to find out how you can insure that your actual recoverability times fit to your SLAs.
Topics covered include:
- The value of data to the business and the need to manage risks
- Business and legal requirements for data availability
- Factors that complicate predictable recovery
- How you can improve recoverability and ensure predictable recovery times
Presented by Craig Mullins and Mike Figaro, NEON
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