''IBM Data magazine'' is a U.S.-based custom, online magazine published by TDA Group for IBM Corp. With a worldwide readership of more than 100,000, the magazine provides how-to information about Db2, Informix, UniVerse, and UniData, along with coverage of related tools, software, and solutions (including those that fall under IBM's Information On Demand initiative).
The magazine was established in 1996 as ''DB2 Magazine''. It was acquired in 2001 by the
IBM Corporation. In 2008, the magazine's name changed to ''IBM Database Magazine'' before later changing to ''IBM Data Management magazine'' in 2009 when it switched publishers. With a worldwide readership of more than 100,000, the magazine provides how-to information about IBM information management software, including the
IBM Db2
Db2 is a family of data management products, including database servers, developed by IBM. It initially supported the relational model, but was extended to support object–relational features and non-relational structures like JSON a ...
,
Informix
IBM Informix is a product family within IBM's Information Management division that is centered on several relational database management system (RDBMS) offerings. The Informix products were originally developed by Informix Corporation, whose I ...
,
UniVerse
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, and
UniData data servers, and related tools, software, and solutions (including those that fall under IBM's Information On Demand initiative). The publication was renamed to ''IBM Data magazine'' in 2012 to reflect the magazine's shift to cover more of IBM's data management product portfolio.
History
''DB2 Magazine''s 1996 launch coincided with the beta program for IBM's
DB2 Universal Database (UDB), which combined DB2 version 2 with DB2 Parallel Edition and is the precursor of the hybrid XML-relational DB2 9.
Originally published by
Miller Freeman, Inc.
Miller Freeman, Inc., was a San Francisco-based publisher of trade books and business magazines, as well as a manager of trade and industry expositions. It was an innovative force in business technology and communications in the 1990s until i ...
, the magazine was created by David Stodder, then editor of Miller Freeman's ''Database Programming and Design'' magazine. Stodder went on to launch
Intelligent Enterprise magazine with the editors of DBMS magazine and served as editorial director of both Intelligent Enterprise and DB2 Magazine until he left
CMP Technology
UBM Technology Group, formerly CMP Publications, was a business-to-business multimedia company that provided information and integrated marketing services to technology professionals worldwide. It offered marketers and advertisers services such as ...
in 2007. Current editor Kim Moutsos joined the magazine as associate editor in 1998 and assumed the editor-in-chief position in 2001.
Over the past decade, the focus of the magazine's technical articles, primarily written by DBAs, developers, consultants, and other industry experts, has expanded to include topics such as business intelligence and analytics, content management and information discovery, and information integration. In 2005, the magazine introduced coverage of the
Informix
IBM Informix is a product family within IBM's Information Management division that is centered on several relational database management system (RDBMS) offerings. The Informix products were originally developed by Informix Corporation, whose I ...
technologies that IBM acquired in 2001.
In 2008, the magazine and Web site relaunched as ''IBM Database Magazine'', to reflect its coverage of multiple IBM database products.
In 2009, the magazine and Web site relaunched as ''IBM Data Management'' magazine, to reflect its coverage of the entire IBM Data Management portfolio.
IBM Data Management magazine
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In 2012, the publication was renamed to ''IBM Data magazine'' to reflect the magazine's shift to cover more of IBM's data management product portfolio.
DB2 Magazine Community Wiki
In May, 2007 ''DB2 Magazine'' launched a community wiki as part of a major site redesign. The community wiki is intended to provide a place for readers to share tips and tricks for working with IBM information management software. The wiki's mission is "to gather DB2, Informix, U2, Cloudscape and other IBM information management know-how and make it available to the ''DB2 Magazine'' community."
See also
* IBM BLU Acceleration
References
External links
IBM Data Management magazine
IBM DB2
IBM Informix
{{IBM Db2 product family
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Business magazines published in the United States
IBM DB2
Magazines established in 1996