Interesting article on use of partial prints and how researchers have been able to develop a print that works by analyzing thousands of fingerprints and then through analysis develop one that works…..Check it out here: http://www.crossroadstoday.com/story/35119693/so-you-think-you-can-secure-your-mobile-phone-with-a-fingerprint
Prior to DB2 11.1, if running HADR, the standby database was required to be reinitialized with a backup from the primary after the upgrade was done on the primary. With installations running many HADR standby databases this represented a significant outage for the upgrade and unavailability of the standby for a period of time. This was especially troublesome if the standby was being used for ROS. The folks at the lab have done a great job in making the upgrade of the standby as part of the upgrade process in DB2 11.1 and onward. So once on DB2 11.1 you will not need to reinitialize the standby — it will be upgraded as part of the upgrade process! Read more about this at https://www.ibmdatamangement.co and visit the DB2 LUW support page at https://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/db2/db2-linux-unix-windows.html
There are a lot, I’d say majority of DB2 installations running DB2 9.7. The requirement to upgrade due to end of service has been out for about a year. Many clients have not yet planned to upgrade. Time to get moving as a good upgrade plan can take 1-3 months to plan and implement. Get moving!
This is a good article with a dashDB use case from Walid Rjaibi, CISSP a friend of mine at IBM. After reading this article your fears should be allayed to some extent. Cloud security done properly is very robust…..http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1408datasecuritycloud/dm-1408datasecuritycloud-pdf.pdf
With this new mod you can use setup SSL between the primary and standby HADR database servers on Intel/AMD servers. You can upgrade from DB2 10.5 to this mod pack without having to reinitialize the standby database. Support for PKCS#11 compliant keystores such as Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). Support added for Windows Server 2016. Several synopsis table improvements and improved BLU performance on new hardware such as Power8, Z13TM, and Intel CPUs supporting AVX2. Get the full details here: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.wn.doc/doc/c0061179.html
The long awaited much anticipated DB2 11.1 has been released. Note that with this release IBM is using a mod level as part of the DB2 version. Also, due to the unique way that this fixpack has been tested, it should be pretty solid. You can get it here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043113
New in DB2 11.1 is the ability to use Key Management Interoperability Protocol standard 1.1 to mange master keys. This is an improvement to the local keystore support provided in DB2 10.5 FP5. Get more information on this and on DB2 11 for LUW in general by following Matt Huras on his blog at http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/new-ibm-db2-release-simplifies-deployment-and-key-management !
I first wrote about InfiniBand in 2003 in my book on DB2 V8 for Linux, UNIX and Windows. However, it’s adoption has been slow as most companies already have an Ethernet network and initial investment in InfiniBand adapters and fabric was probably a non-starter. However, with High Performance Computing and machine learning, working on gobs of data, 200Gbps Infiniband may just do the trick. Check out this new article:
If you are going to be upgrading your DB2 to 10.5 or DB2 11, this is a good page to visit as it lays out some of the ways to determine driver and client versions and also discusses compatibility….https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21497134#A1
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