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IBM Cloud Paks

IBM’s Integrated Cloud Data Platform

In this blog we’ll take a broader look at IBM’s integrated cloud data platform that makes it easy to deploy, scale, manage and stitch together cloud databases with analytics and AI services across IBM Cloud and 3rd party public cloud vendors, underpinned by Red Hat OpenShift.
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An Easy Way to Synchronise Netezza with LDAP & Entra ID

If you use LDAP authentication with your Netezza appliances, you’ll know how much effort goes into keeping your database permissions aligned to your corporate security policy. In this article we’ll show you how you can make life much easier by automating that process.
Netezza Performance Server Boxes

Netezza Performance Server De-Mystified

The Netezza Performance Server for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is an amalgam of leading edge technologies with lots of new concepts to get your head around, so we thought it would be helpful to explain the platform’s features in layman’s terms.
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Enabling Netezza’s Machine Learning Capabilities

Automated machine learning is becoming a must-have Business Intelligence skill and Netezza has built-in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) which we can install and configure for companies wanting to leverage this capability.
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A Smart Data Migration Tool

In this blog post we’ll explore the nuts and bolts of the data migration and the tools involved that will do the heavy lifting for you.
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An Easy Data Migration – Is There Such A Thing?

Is there such thing as an easy data warehouse migration? In this post, we talk about how no two data migrations are the same and explain the different data types you have to take into consideration.