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Data Governance
Netezza

Database Activity Monitoring: Why It Matters

Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) is key to cybersecurity. Learn how to use DAM for real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and compliance.

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Sweating your Netezza asset
Netezza

Sweating your Netezza Asset

Explore cost-effective strategies to extend the life of your legacy Netezza systems with afterlife support.

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Trust Labyrinth
Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI: A Problem Of Trust

Suddenly it seems that artificial intelligence is everywhere. This is thanks to the recent surge in the generative AI market so that you can now ask for AI assistance to do a wide variety of both routine and complex tasks in your daily work life. But can you trust the information you get from Open AI?

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Warehouse of Mako Spares
Netezza

Can You Get Spare Mako Parts After IBM End of Support (EOS) ?

Netezza clients are being told that there are no spare parts to be had anywhere for their Mako systems that are going out of support on April 10th of this year. Read why this is wrong, and what you can do to ensure your Mako keeps running whilst you consider your options.

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Smart Health on your Smartphone
Netezza

How to Smartly Manage your Netezza System’s Health beyond IBM EOS

Netezza systems, like humans, will experience a decline in performance as they age. Also like humans, this decline can be linked to underlying health issues which, if corrected, can result in much of the performance being restored. In this blog, read about the steps you can take to ensure your legacy Netezza system runs at peak performance well beyond the IBM end of support date.

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Bug Alert Open SSL
Cloud Pak for Data

Bug Alert for CP4D Users Running OpenSSL 3.0.0+

More Netezza bugs to report folks – this time on Monday IBM announced patches for multiple high-severity vulnerabilities impacting a number of products including Netezza and Cloud Pak for Data. Read on.

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3 Monkeys speak no evil see no evil hear no evil
Netezza

A Cautionary Tale – What Can Happen When non-Netezza Specialists Attempt an OS Upgrade

When non-Netezza specialists are made responsible for maintaining a Netezza system you shouldn’t be surprised if things go wrong. Read a cautionary tale about when two Netezza operating system upgrades were attempted using the wrong software.

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Netezza

Bug Alert for NPS users with Golang installed

More Netezza bugs to report folks – this time on Monday IBM announced patches for multiple high-severity vulnerabilities impacting a number of products including Netezza and Cloud Pak for Data. Read on.

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News Flash
Netezza

Vulnerability in GNU Binutils affecting IBM Netezza Platform Software

We’d like to bring to your attention an IBM Security Bulletin that refers to a vulnerability in GNU Binutils affects IBM Netezza Platform Software.

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Netezza with walking stick being helped
Netezza

Why it’s crucial to keep your Netezza software up to date

Running older versions of your Netezza software may not result in any specific issues whilst the appliance is being supported by IBM, but that ceases to be the case after the IBM End of Support (EOS) date. Find out why.

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