KTSL News

Spend 120 Seconds & Make Fear-Free DB2 Changes

This video from BMC Software takes just 120 seconds to show you the major advances that they have made in DB2 change management and how their customers are benefiting.

BMC CHANGE MANAGER for DB2 analyses proposed DB2 changes to make sure they're safe. It can roll-back to previous working versions if things do go wrong. And it drastically speeds up massive change roll-outs, doing in minutes or hours what once took days or weeks.

Watch the video (no registration required)

Download the brochure 

Keith Pound
KTSL Limited

See DBI's Performance, Tuning and Optimisation Tools for DB2 LUW in Action

Join KTSL Partner, DBI for a technical and in-depth demonstration of DBI's tools for DB2 LUW that help organisations to:

• Achieve 22-44% energy savings
• Dramatically improve database response times
• Significantly increase scalability

DBI also have tools that provide the same savings and improvements for Oracle.

Register for a session now by clicking a date below:

Tue, Sep 1, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM BST

Tue, Sep 15, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM BST

Tue, Sep 29, 2009 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM BST

Keith Pound
KTSL Limited

Maximise Cost Reductions, Profitability, Productivity, and "Save the Planet" too

In co-operation with the San Mateo IBM Innovation Center, KTSL partner, DBI used IBM Tivoli Energy Management to monitor energy consumption of an IBM p570 Server with 16 CPUs.

See how proper DB2 LUW (or Oracle) database tuning can lower energy costs by 24-44% or more, improve ability to optimise existing IT assets, avoid or defer hardware upgrades, dramatically cut software licensing costs by over $1.3M in a sample scenario, and improve productivity and profitability by reducing response times by over 99%.

Read the full article here (external link)

Keith Pound

KTSL Limited

DBI Update Brother-Owl for Oracle

KTSL partner DBI has announced the release of Brother-Owl for Oracle version 7.1 with added support for Oracle 10.2.0.4 and 11g as well as HP-UX 11i Itanium. The new version includes many new dynamically computed performance metrics to aid the DBA to isolate costly SQL problems.

A full press release is available on DBI's web site.

Additional information about the product is on KTSL's web site.

Keith Pound
KTSL Limited

Partner Webinar: DB2 LUW Performance and IT Cost Optimisation for a Smarter Planet

This Webinar will cover excerpts from my friend Scott Hayes’ new IDUG Education Seminar “300 Fast Fabulous Facts for DB2 LUW”. He will explore IBM’s new Smarter Planet initiative, GREEN IT, and IT Cost Optimisation as these business imperatives relate to IBM Data Management and DB2 LUW in particular.

You can get more information and register on DBI's website

You will find information about Scott's wonderful software tools here

Keith Pound
Sales & Marketing Director
KTSL Limited

DB2 Performance Management for a Smarter Planet

KTSL partner, DBI Software, have launched a new video on YouTube that I wanted to share with you.

The video demonstrates energy power savings that are possible by properly tuning a database. If you are interested in improving business performance and productivity, while, at the same time, optimising IT costs, deferring or avoiding hardware upgrades, and lowering energy costs in your data center, this short video demonstrates the ripple effect of performance benefits obtained by properly tuning an IBM DB2 LUW V9.5 database (as an example, similar performance and energy cost savings can be obtained by tuning Oracle databases).

DBI provides DB2 and Oracle SQL Performance Analysis and Tuning tools that can help you improve performance, productivity, and your bottom line. Please visit www.ktsl.com/database_management.html to learn more.

Keith Pound
Sales & Marketing Director
KTSL Limited

DB2 LUW Performance: A Self Tuning Memory Manager Case Study

My good friend Scott Hayes, CEO of DBI Software, has recently published a new blog at IBM Database Magazine. The underlying message of this blog is to illustrate that IBM’s Self Tuning Memory Manager (STMM) is not a miracle cure for performance and that SQL workload analysis and tuning is still needed.

Read the blog here.

Keith Pound

Sales & Marketing Director

KTSL Limited

DBI Product Updates for Customers, Partners, and Customers who haven't sent cheques yet!

Its short notice, but KTSL partner DBI Software are hosting a webinar this Friday (14th) at 4pm to present their new DB2 LUW tools. This webinar focuses on the new capabilities that help organisations automate performance optimisation, manage performance change, and receive proactive actionable alerts for better business availability and performance.

Everyone is cost sensitive – every expenditure must demonstrate real ROI with a rapid payback period in weeks not months or years. And DBI has mastered "Payback" regardless of how an organisation measures value.

My good friend and creator of an "almost world famous recipe for salmon" Scott Hayes, DBI CEO, will lead the webinar.

You’ll find more information on the events page of DBI's website.

Here’s a direct link to the webinar registration.

Keith Pound
Sales & Marketing Director
KTSL Limited

DBI Launch Brother-Hawk Lights-Out Alerting Tool for DB2 LUW

KTSL partner DBI Softare have announced the release of Brother-HawkTM Version 1.0 for DB2 LUW, a new component of their Database Performance Tool Suite. Brother-Hawk, a lights-out alerting tool, is a separately licensable add-on component to DBI’s Brother-Panther® which sends automated, customised, and meaningful alerts based on the characteristics of real-time and recently computed data.

You can read more here.

Keith Pound
Sales & Marketing Director
KTSL Limited