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Published July 14, 2022

Middleware & Integration Staff Issue? – F500 Bank Found a Better Approach

By Steven Menges

Integration and middleware staffing issues within IT Operations and Service Delivery teams are common, even in the largest enterprises.  Here is the story of one large enterprise:

Talent Issues at a Large Global Financial Services Firm

Because of the complex nature of their messaging middleware and overall integration infrastructure (i2) environment, the organization required specialists for each management tool or platform, whether from a middleware vendor, homegrown solution, or third-party management tool.

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Published July 4, 2022

Thank You 2022 Nastel Advisory Board Members!

By Steven Menges

Formed in 2021, the Nastel Technologies Advisory Board is made up of business and IT leaders from a wide variety of sectors, across the world. These enterprise leaders and innovators understand the incredibly important role of planning for, and the management of, the integration infrastructure (i2) layer (including messaging middleware, APIs, and much more) in their enterprises to enable meeting IT and larger corporate goals in 2022.

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Published April 4, 2022

Industry Experts Weigh in on “Digital First,” On-Prem vs. Cloud & “Data Driven” Enterprises

By Steven Menges

Industry analysts do primary research and two of the best, IDC and EMA (Enterprise Management Associates), have recently published some great insights for enterprises in 3 areas:

1.Digital First

Analyst firm IDC has revealed that their “Key Predictions for 2022 and Beyond” include that companies are dramatically accelerating their “Digital-first” initiatives to win in the customer experience (CX) wars and the race to increase digital revenue streams.

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Published March 29, 2022

Data-Driven Enterprise (or Just Talking Like One)?

By Steven Menges

Who’s faking it?  Data-driven decision-making (and ensuring related investment is delivering on its promises) has been elevated in importance.  Every enterprise is replacing opinion with data-driven decision-making, correct?

A brand new research report from EMA (Enterprise Management Associates) titled, “A Data-Driven Enterprise” looks behind the curtain to separate facts and reality from fiction and aspiration.  Here are some of the findings from the latest research on enterprises.

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Published November 9, 2021

Observability, AIOps, APM, and i2M: The Partner Ecosystem for IBM MQ Enterprises

By Steven Menges

Complex enterprises have an integration infrastructure (i2) layer that connects technologies and applications across cloud, data center, virtualized systems, mainframe, edge computing, etc.

Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) is the “management” of the i2 layer and includes:

  • Configuration and security management
  • Monitoring and fault management
  • Alerting and automation
  • Performance optimization

The i2 layer includes a core middleware application (such as IBM MQ) along with many other “integration” technologies, such as MFT (managed file transfer), IoT, REST APIs, DataPower Gateway, and other messaging technologies (i.e., Kafka, TIBCO EMS, IBM ACE, IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and more).

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Published November 4, 2021

CIOs, Leaders Facing Unprecedented Empowerment and Challenges – Top Predictions

By Steven Menges

Researchers and thought leaders shared 3 predictions for enterprise CIOs and IT leaders that are particularly relevant and important to consider as we move into 2022:

Prediction 1: Through 2026, 65% of CIOs will sustain a cycle of tech-based empowerment, agility, and resilience through collaborative governance, new service delivery models, and a business outcomes orientation.

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Published October 12, 2021

Future Trends & Technology for Your Integration Infrastructure

By Steven Menges

Integration is now the #1 IT expense category at many enterprises and new complexities increase the burden on Service Delivery, CI/CD, IBM MQ administration, and other “integration professionals” every day.  Your enterprise has Microservices, Mobile, Mainframes, Cloud, and more applications and application updates than you can count and it takes the routing of transactions, messages and more through a rapidly growing integration infrastructure layer to make it all work together.  That is now a trend.

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Published September 1, 2021

IBM MQ 9.2.3 Streaming Queues: Your Integration Infrastructure (i2) Data Win

By Steven Menges

By now, you have probably seen the announcement for IBM MQ 9.2.3.  The first thing to mention is that Nastel had support for 9.2.3 right away.  Nastel Technologies is an integration infrastructure management (i2M) solutions company, and IBM MQ is at the heart of most enterprises’ integration infrastructure (i2).

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Published January 26, 2021

Poll Results Indicate New Kafka & Cloud Middleware-related Activity for MQ Shops

By Steven Menges

The initial polling of IBM MQ customers reveals some interesting trends as we enter 2021.

Poll #1: When asked which one area they were looking to learn more about in 2021, the top response was “Tools for Cloud Migration of Messaging Middleware.”  It is important to note that all the respondents have IBM MQ messaging middleware in their estate, most also have Kafka, and many also have IIB (IBM Integration Bus), IBM ACE (App Connect Enterprise), and/or TIBCO EMS are part of their IT stack.

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