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Published June 27, 2022

Devops is tough, but the choice between faster development and improving reliability shouldn't be. Consider shifting-left security, better observability, AIops platforms, and more.

Devops is primarily associated with the collaboration between developers and operations to improve the delivery and reliability of applications in production.

7 devops practices to improve application performance
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Published February 25, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI, also called Machine Learning) is certainly making its way in the world. Technologies such as Voice Recognition, Face Recognition, Predictive Analytics, Self-driving cars, and Robotics are now becoming embedded into our society. With the advent of big-data, these technologies can become more and more powerful and more and more a part of our everyday lives.

Intelligent Machine Monitoring
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Published November 13, 2021

XRay 1.4 Solution Plugs Data and Analytics Gaps for Enterprises to Enable Insights from the Integration Infrastructure (i2) Layer, IoT, and Containers.

Nastel Technologies, the leader in Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) solutions for complex enterprises, today announced the immediate availability of the XRay AIOps and Tracing and Tracking solution's latest release.

Nastel Releases i2-aware AIOps, Analytics & Tracking Platform for Complex Enterprises
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Published November 9, 2021

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).

Observability, AIOps, APM, and i2M: The Partner Ecosystem for IBM MQ Enterprises
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Published September 21, 2021

What do you most want to learn about to advance your career or help your organization excel and gain a competitive advantage in 2022?

TIP #1: What is Trending with Your Peers?

IT Ops Automation and AIOps Tools: Tips for 2022
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Published September 1, 2021

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).

IBM MQ 9.2.3 Streaming Queues: Your Integration Infrastructure (i2) Data Win
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Published August 12, 2021

I just heard that businesses are repatriating cloud workloads.

I was told, “The history of IT is paved with dreams of lower costs, better performance, and higher reliability through migrations to new platforms and languages and new architectures and infrastructures.”

“Some of the biggest recorded IT waste has been when companies focus on the ‘next big thing’ and have issues achieving successful implementations.

Was Cloud A Mistake?
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Published July 9, 2021

AIOps is an area of technology that is developing rapidly and is generally accepted to mean “using machine learning to contextualize large amounts of data”.

While data analytics systems are great at identifying unusual patterns in large amounts of data (for example in a data lake) they can be quite poor at providing context to the signals they detect.

Life, the Universe and AIOps
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Published April 5, 2021

Customer experience, also known as CX, is a hot topic today.  Observability and AIOps (machine learning and artificial intelligence for IT operations), can be used for determining and linking transaction performance to your business performance, in real-time.  That makes them hot topics as well.  I recently spoke with two experts about the intersection of these topics to discuss what leading companies are doing (and evaluating) in these areas, and how they’re doing it.  The discussion includes these areas:

  • AIOps
  • CX (Customer Experience)
  • Observability
  • Advanced Troubleshooting and RCA (root cause analysis)
  • Next Generation Monitoring / APM
  • End-to-end Message and Transaction Tracking
  • IBM MQ, Kafka, and challenges with monitoring and management of multi-middleware environments
  • Build vs.
Leigh Reed