Zero Downtime Cloud Migration with SQDR Cloud Migration Overview Companies are increasingly leveraging cloud storage for its scalability, reliability, and availability. The cloud can reduce operational costs, facilitate geographical expansion, and offer disaster recovery improvements, among other benefits. However, migrating to the cloud can also be expensive, time-consuming, and pose serious risks. Few companies... Read More
Offloading Reporting with Real-Time Data Replication Legacy IBM DB2 or Oracle databases process transactional data as well today as they did ten or even twenty years ago. These machines are secure and interwoven into the information technology infrastructure of most mature companies. So why is there such a rush to move to the cloud? Reporting. Business intelligence and other advanced analytics require large... Read More
How DXC Utilizes SQDR for its JD Edwards Practice Leading companies around the world turn to DXC for J.D. Edwards managed services. And when Phil Anderson, Principal JD Edwards Technical Consultant at DXC, has a project that requires data replication, he turns to StarQuest Data Replicator (SQDR). StarQuest recently had a conversation with Phil to learn what he views as the key use-cases for... Read More
Imagine your company is running Oracle JDE 8.12 with DB2 for i running on an IBM i (AS/400) server and you want to migrate to Oracle Linux 7.3 Oracle Database 12.1 with Oracle Weblogic Pro JDE 12.1 running on the Oracle Cloud… Sounds like the kind of project that keeps IT professionals up nights, weekends, and holidays. Application Architect Humza Quareshi faced exactly that... Read More
StarQuest Ventures, a leading provider of data integration software solutions, announced a partnership today with LzLabs GmbH, creators of the Software Defined Mainframe (SDM). The companies are partnering to seamlessly deliver access to the SDM via the StarSQL ODBC/JDBC driver. The SDM provides a platform to run mainframe applications on Linux, on-premise or in the cloud. The SDM runtime supports the execution... Read More
iSeries Data Replication with SQDR Heterogeneous real-time data replication for iSeries and AS/400 Data problems manifest in a lot of different ways: Too many ad hoc queries bogging down your your IBM iSeries server? Have a new web service to bring up in weeks, not months? Need to re-engineer your DB2 i database without breaking existing applications? Data replication is an effective solution... Read More