Next week I’m off to Dublin to take part in one of my favorite annual conferences; the IDUG EMEA DB2 Technical Conference. It’s always full of great user sessions as well as sessions from some of the top DB2 experts from IBM.

This year I will be delivering a 4 hours hands on workshop on Thursday afternoon covering DB2 on Cloud, dashDB and more.  The best part is it is included with your conference registration so come out and get some hands on experience with running DB2 in the Cloud.  

I will cover Cloud 101 including infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, DB2 on Cloud, dashDB, DataWorks, Watson Analytics and more. If you don’t know what some of these are, don’t worry, that’s what the class is all about.  The good news is you already know more about these products than you might think because DB2 is under the covers of many of them.  We will talk about how to get data efficiently into the cloud, cloud security, how to manage DB2 and dashDB in the cloud (and what you don’t have to manage because some of these are managed services in the cloud).

Tell you friends who are going to pencil this session in and bring a laptop (or you can even run most of the class from an iPad – it is all on the cloud afterall).

If you are attending, register for cloud accounts in advance and it will save you some time at the start of the class.

Bluemix account

• Register for free trial account at https://console.ng.bluemix.net
  • Click on either “Sign up” or “Get started free”
  • Requires IBM ID (one will be created if you don’t already have one)

Cloudant account

Watson Analytics account (optional)

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