Category Archives: Data Warehouse

Cloud Computing in the Midmarket

Posted on 2011/11/27 by Balazs

Midsize businesses are realizing the power of cloud computing–a flexible, cost-effective and proven platform for delivering IT services and products over the web. However, they are also facing tighter budgets, fewer resources and more competition. Now, more than ever, there’s … Continue reading →

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What is the difference between site to site and mobile VPN?

Posted on 2011/11/03 by Balazs

For most businesses, there are two types of VPN that apply: site to site VPN: this is used to link sites, such as your office and the data center, mobile VPN: this is used to link mobile or home users … Continue reading →

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How to install Tomcat 6 on RHEL 6 or CentOS 6

Posted on 2011/10/31 by Balazs

Here are some steps to install Tomcat 6 on Red Hat 6 (or CentOS 6).   First we are going to prepare the repository: yum install yum-priorities rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/free/RPMS/jpackage-utils-5.0.0-7.jpp6.noarch.rpm Next we will install … Continue reading →

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OpenVPN connects, but no ping

Posted on 2011/10/17 by Balazs

OpenVPN connection issue on Windows Vista and Windows 7 Problem When connecting to an OpenVPN tunnel on Windows Vista or Windows 7, the OpenVPN GUI shows the connection as successful, but the protected network can not be reached. Solution Start … Continue reading →

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Loading of over 1 Trillion RDF Triples

Posted on 2011/08/30 by Balazs

Franz Inc., a leading supplier of Graph Database technology, with critical support from Stillwater SuperComputing Inc. and Intel, today announced it has achieved its goal of being the first to load and query a NoSQL database with a trillion RDF … Continue reading →

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IBM Power Systems Model and Serial

Posted on 2011/06/16 by Balazs

IBM makes it very easy to get the model number and the serial number of an AIX system or a VIOS on thier Power Series: $ uname -M # model number IBM,NNNN-NNN $ uname -m # serial number HHHHHHHHHHHH You … Continue reading →

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Installing a Secure Certificate on IBM Smart Business Server (VERDE)

Posted on 2011/05/23 by Balazs

At the time of this writing, the IBM Smart Business Server’s control panel doesn’t allow importing a secure certificate (SSL cert). Never-the-less it is possible to install a valid (CA signed) secure certificate from the command line. This article assumes … Continue reading →

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NewPush featured in StorageNewsletter.com

Posted on 2011/03/16 by Balazs

StorageNewsletter.com is carrying and article about our new SAN infrastructure choice around IBM N series and Zerowait SimpleStor products. Here is an excerpt: Zerowait Corporation, provider of independent NetApp support and off- lease systems, announced that NewPush, a global application … Continue reading →

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Updated IBM DB2 e-kit for Database Professionals

Posted on 2011/03/04 by Balazs

Refresh of the DB2 e-kit As a follow up to the DB2 Discovery Kit post, here is a link the the Updated IBM DB2 e-kit for Database Professionals This new kit has a number of resources for migrating to DB2 … Continue reading →

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Business Analytics Software Efficiencies are Key

Posted on 2010/12/26 by Pete

Business Analytics, Business Intelligence and the Hardware Upgrade Tarpit A common misconception about business analytics, is that better business analytics usually requires better hardware. Business Analytics: Software rules over Hardware A number of blogs have recently reflected on the “REPORT … Continue reading →

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