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NEON Enterprise Software introduces Recovery AssuranceExpert for DB2
Have you ever wondered whether all those backups you are making of your DB2 databases can actually be used to recover your systems faithfully and in a timely manner when you need them? Most DBA groups ensure that all of their critical database objects are backed up but rarely do they ever check them until they have to...and then it might be too late!
Well that nightmare can become a thing of the past with Recovery AssuranceExpert. NEON Enterprise Software’s Recovery AssuranceExpert solution can be used to check all components of availability and recovery for all of your DB2 systems enterprise-wide. It will report on system availability using key performance indicators (KPI) giving you a single, comprehensive decision point for the recovery health of your DB2 databases and systems.
Database health checking assures business continuity through data availability and fail-safe recoverability.
 Read more about Recovery AssuranceExpert
Read our Recovery AssuranceExpert white paper
TITAN Archive Supports Legal and Regulatory Mandates
Archiving your data isn’t just necessary, it’s a legal and regulatory mandate. To successfully protect your business, you have to protect your data, intact, for its legal life. Because the data retention period can be decades, and because retention requirements can change at any time, TITAN Archive provides flexible, safe compliance software for archiving data from a DBMS.
Analysts at Gartner agree, saying “Through 2010, companies that have not adopted formal e-Discovery processes will spend nearly twice as much on gathering and producing documents as they will on legal services.”
And TITAN Archive, from NEON Enterprise Software, is there to efficiently and effectively preserve and retain your valuable database data. Whether the data is stored on the mainframe in DB2 or on Unix in Oracle, TITAN Archive can be deployed to retain your database data for many years...or even many decades.
Next up? IMS. Many of the largest organizations in the world have been using IMS for many years to manage their critical business data. And there is a lot of data in those IMS databases that needs to be archived. If you are interested in working with NEON Enterprise Software on a proof of concept for TITAN Archive for IMS, send us an email. We’d be glad to work with you to show the power of TITAN Archive for the long-term retention and preservation of your IMS data.
So, TITAN Archive protects against data loss and assures user authentication, securely managing data for its legal life...and it offers supports for multiple DBMS platforms using the same interface regardless of DBMS. If you use DB2, Oracle, or even IMS, and need to preserve a lot of data for a long time, TITAN Archive can support your needs.
Read the Enterprise Strategy Group report on TITAN Archive
Read Craig S. Mullins’ white paper Database Archiving: Managing Data for Long Retention Periods
zNextGen: A new generation of young mainframe professionals
The industry is buzzing about zNextGen! But what is it? Well, zNextGen is an organization aimed at young mainframe programmers, which has gained significant momentum since it was created roughly two years ago. The organization started out with an informal gathering "in a bar with 30 or 40 people there, and we now have over 350 members from over 100 different enterprise systems companies in 12 countries," said Kristine Harper, zNextGen's project manager and an assembler programmer at NEON Enterprise Software, Inc.
The zNextGen group meets regularly at SHARE conferences, hosts monthly conference calls (in which Harper and other zNextGen attendees participate), and is in the process of constructing an online forum, too.
Read all about it in Computerworld and Enterprise Systems
NEON ON THE ROAD
NEON Enterprise Software is constantly reaching out to the data management community by attending industry conferences and user groups, as well as delivering information-packed and educational presentations at those events. Catch us on the road at these events in the second quarter of 2008.
Great Northwest ARMA Conference—April 7-9, 2008, Portland OR
Heart of Texas DB2 Users Group—April 9, 2008, Austin TX
COLLABORATE 08—April 17-19, 2008, Denver CO
Alabama DB2 Users Group—April 30, 2008, Birmingham AL
Southwest Area Relational User Group—May 8, 2008, Chicago IL
Northern California Oracle User Group—May 15, 2008, Foster City CA
IDUG: International DB2 User Group—May 18-33, 2008, Dallas TX
Los Angeles Area DB2 User Group—June 5, 2008, Fountain Valley CA
Baltimore/Washington, DC DB2 User Group—June 11, 2008, Columbia MD
Tampa Bay Relational User Group – June 13, 2008, Tampa FL
DAMA Chicago—June 18, 2008, Chicago, IL
RECENTLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES
An Update on Data Professional's Salaries.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in Database Trends and Applications, March 2008
Much Ado About DB2 Locking.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in zJournal, Feb/March 2008
Keeping Up With The DBMS.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in Database Trends and Applications, February 2008
Compliance Needs Drive Data Access Auditing Requirements.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in IDUG Solutions Journal, Winter 2007
Data Management Made News in 2007.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in Database Trends and Applications, January 2008
The Database Report: 4Q2007.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in The Data Administration Newsletter, January 2008
The Evolution of Database Security.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in zJournal, Dec 07/Jan 08
Utility TEMPLATE Switching in DB2 9 for z/OS.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in DB2 Update, December 2007
The Most Important Thing is Recoverability.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in Database Trends and Applications, December 2007
Data Quality Starts With Proper Data Type.
By Craig S. Mullins, published in Quest Pipelines, December 2007
FROM THE BLOGS
“...archiving helps to optimize your recovery strategy. By archiving dormant data from our databases when it is no longer needed for business operations, the size of our databases will decrease. And that means we will not be backing that data up every time we need to make image copy backups to ensure the recoverability of our operational databases. We (must) treat the archived data separately, in the archive data store.”
Craig S. Mullins,
Data Management Today
“...while there are conflicting views about the future of mainframe careers, I truly believe that the current experienced workforce will be tough to replace.”
Kristine Harper,
Newbie Blog
“With the new programmers, new hardware and new software pricing, hopefully you can see that the mainframe is far from dead. And it's not merely alive--it's growing.”
Troy Coleman,
DB2tutor
“Generally speaking, regulatory compliance is usually a check-box paperwork exercise whose controls lag attack models of the day by one to five years, if not more. PCI is somewhat of an exception as it attempts to be more operationally relevant and address more current web application security issues. While there are some admirable aspects of PCI, please keep this mantra in mind - It is much easier to pass a PCI audit if you are secure than to be secure because you pass a PCI audit.”
RC Barnett,
ModSecurity Blog
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