Extreme Availability and Scalability--Up and Running With DB2 pureScale DB2 is a leading-edge hybrid data server that offers optimum storage, scalability, and availability. DB2 pureScale is a new technology primarily optimized for scale-out transactional processing clusters in an active-active manner. This succinct guide will show you how DB2 with pureScale can deliver transparent application scalability, the ability to deliver agile-like computing to your transaction systems, and extreme availability. This book, together with IBM DB2 9 New Features (McGraw-Hill, 2007) and Break Free with DB2 9.7 (McGraw-Hill, 2009), provides you with the comprehensive knowledge you need to get started with the latest DB2 release. Try the new features by downloading DB2 Express-C 9.7--it is free to develop, deploy, and distribute (with no user and database size limitations) and features pureXML technology. Go to ibm.com/db2/express. Discover the...