Category Archives: James Gill

Three is the Magic Number – Triton Trio to Present at IDUG EMEA 2017

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Carol

We are delighted to announce that three members of the Triton Consulting team will be heading to Lisbon this year to present at Europe’s biggest and most prestigious DB2 technical conference, IDUG EMEA*. This year’s conference will take place at … Continue reading →

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IDUG EMEA 2016 – Day 1

Posted on November 15, 2016 by James Gill

IDUG EMEA 2016 is taking place in Brussels, so travel options were a bit more flexible this year. Having decided not to spend most of the day in the queue for security in Stansted airport, we opted to go via … Continue reading →

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IDUG EMEA 2015 Day 1

Posted on November 17, 2015 by James Gill

Arriving at lunchtime in Dublin the Sunday before the IDUG EMEA 2015 conference kicks off does leave one with half a day to kill. The half day in question was blustery with the threat of rain and so we elected … Continue reading →

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IBM Announce the zEnterprise zEC12

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Carol

The next generation of zSeries hardware was announced on Tuesday 28th August. The zEC12 is faster (5.5GHz cores), and will run more processors (up to 101 general purpose) than the previous generations of z. All of this adds up to … Continue reading →

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GDPC – Expert Guidance From Triton Consulting

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Carol

It’s well known that DB2 pureScale is an IT department’s ‘must-have’ product to cope with its customers’ growing workloads.  It provides outstanding database scalability which is unlimited, plus continuous availability and application transparency.  However, any single-site system, even a DB2 … Continue reading →

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A wintry morning in Prague….

Posted on November 14, 2011 by laura

….and two DB2 Geeks are taking part in the DB2 Seek the Geek Quiz! James and Iqbal of Triton Consulting give the DB2 Seek the Geek quiz a run-through.  If you’re there, make sure you enter.  The first step is … Continue reading →

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Looking forward to IDUG EMEA

Posted on November 11, 2011 by laura

It’s the final countdown to IDUG EMEA!  We’re really looking forward to the event this year, there’s so much going on.  We’re sending three of our top DB2 Geeks.  Julian Stuhler will be heading out to Prague early as he … Continue reading →

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DB2 pureScale availability demo – Member Failure & Recovery

Posted on November 22, 2010 by laura

In this video our resident DB2 pureScale expert, James Gill shares a live demonstration of what happens when a member fails in a DB2 pureScale cluster. For more information on DB2 pureScale visit www.triton.co.uk/purescale/

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Five Days in the labs – Part 2. DB2 pureScale Coupling Facility

Posted on July 9, 2010 by James Gill

By James Gill We were lucky enough to get an opportunity to spend a week in the IBM Boeblingen Labs in Germany, to get some hands on experience with DB2 9.8 – pureScale – or Data Sharing on mid-range.  The … Continue reading →

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Five Days in the Labs – Part 1

Posted on June 18, 2010 by laura

Last month we were delighted to be given the opportunity to visit IBM’s research and development centre in Boeblingen, Germany.  Before I get on to what exactly we were doing there I’d like to share a little information about the … Continue reading →

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