Progress Software’s Enterprise Data Solutions Division 2009 Achievements

by Rob Steward on February 8, 2010

in Handbook

In this podcast Rob Steward looks back over 2009 and shares what he is most proud of in terms of work product.

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Issues with Type 4 JDBC Drivers?

by Administrator on February 3, 2010

in Data Connections, JDBC

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Performance Tuning – ADO.NET to Oracle

January 25, 2010

Performance is always at the top of the list of reasons why customers buy Progress DataDirect products. Even though all of our products are designed to deliver maximum performance out-of-the-box, there are cases where there may be a need to tune a product to get even better performance.
While many customers are aware that our drivers [...]

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Risk Free With Shadow

January 18, 2010

In this podcast, Gregg Willhoit explains how Progress DataDirect customers take advantage of moving workloads beyond DB2 to the zIIP specialty engine, and do so risk free and worry free using DataDirect Shadow.
Gregg’s podcast runs for 5:22:

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Modernizing Mainframe Applications

January 12, 2010

In this guest post Trevor Eddolls, CEO of iTech-Ed Ltd, shares his thoughts on why it is important to modernize mainframe applications.

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Impact Of Software On Virtualization

January 11, 2010

In this podcast Rob Steward argues that virtualization is causing the software industry to reexamine many of the same issues that were faced 30 years ago. The podcast lasts for 3:12 and can be listened to here: http://blogs.datadirect.com/media/ImpactOfSoftwareOnVirtualization.mp3

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EF 4.0 v NHibernate

January 8, 2010

Some recommended reading for those of you who are looking at what NHibernate 2.0 offers in comparison to Entity Framework 4.0. While it is a fairly subjective view point Ayende Rahien does a good job dissecting the differences with a view to considering the pros and cons. Check out the blog posting here.

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CMG Conference: Keep It Legal

January 5, 2010

In this podcast, Gregg reflects on his presentation ‘Keeping it Legal, Techniques for Maximizing TCO with the zIIP’ at the CMG Technical Conference in Dallas. Gregg shares that the CMG audience supported IBM’s position and approved zIIP offload. Gregg continues that the participating audience hoped for additional transparency regarding who is offloading to the zIIP [...]

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2010 Predictions

January 4, 2010

Annual prognostications are typically overly optimistic, so for 2010’s soothsaying I’ve opted for a more pragmatic approach.
Austerity drives innovations in doing more with less – The 2009 budgetary hangovers while I expect to less restrictive this year, will drive nearly all purchasing decisions this year. A need to demonstrate obvious and immediate on any return [...]

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Data Access and Virtualization

January 4, 2010

In this podcast Rob Steward explains why data access middleware makes a difference within a virtualization environment. The podcast lasts for 9:14.

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