Published March 16, 2021
Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 1 p.m. ET
Many enterprises are adopting OpenShift in their journey to building and running containerized workloads in on-premise, cloud-based or hybrid environments. These initiatives leverage multiple application integration technologies, such as IBM MQ, Apache Kafka, or Tibco EMS.
Published February 3, 2021
What SolarWinds taught us all, is that trust is both a key component of the cloud, and also an incredible risk, that must be managed.
What happened at SolarWinds is almost an evolutionary theory level event.
Published January 28, 2021
Nastel Technologies announced today that it has been awarded Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Select Tier partner status. Using AWS, Nastel is able to accelerate its efforts to help customers take advantage of innovative cloud technology.
Published January 26, 2021
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.
Published September 30, 2020
Nastel Technologies today announced that Nastel Navigator is now available through Red Hat Marketplace. Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across environments—public and private, cloud and on-premises.
Published September 2, 2020
Application Performance - Much of the costs associated with implementing a new app or upgrading an existing app are operational. For most companies at least a quarter of their entire IT budget is aligned to integration and configuration management.
Published August 18, 2020
COVID-19 - Cost companies have a list of priorities that are set each year, and budgets and resources are aligned to these. For most companies the priority list looks something like this:
COVID-19 has slowed down 1&2 for most businesses, and while there is pressure on budgets, all of a sudden 3&4 have moved to the top of the list. While GRC improvements are always “planned “, often having a plan is enough to meet the requirements, so in many cases this is the “can that is kicked down the road”.
Published August 7, 2020
Cloud - Business applications have continued to become more complex, and the tools we all rely on to monitor performance have not always kept up.
The basic model that APM relies on, starts by capturing performance metrics and then using the knowledge developers and administrators have about the how these metrics can be analyzed to describe the performance of specific business processes.
Published May 27, 2020
It is amazing how MQ has managed to stay relevant over all of these years. Looking back to when it first came out in the 1990's, we were dealing with 2400 baud modems connected to remote locations running a number of different technologies, over spotty telephone lines using token ring protocols.
Published May 8, 2020
Recently I have setup test environments on both the IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka cloud offerings. For both of these the setup was quick and simple.
Since many applications today are using client connections, switching from a locally hosted service to a cloud offering was as simple as changing the connection URL.
