Published September 13, 2022
There are a few key differences between distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. One is that OpenTelemetry offers a more unified approach to instrumentation, while distributed tracing takes a more granular approach. This means that OpenTelemetry can be less time-consuming to set up, but it doesn’t necessarily offer as much visibility into your system as distributed tracing does.
Published July 14, 2022
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.
Published July 4, 2022
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.
Published June 30, 2022
Continuous intelligence (CI) platforms can be used to collect telemetry data from various sources, perform analysis on that data, make inferences about the data, and provide real-time insights that help businesses understand what’s going on.
For years, network, application performance, and security monitoring were fairly passive operations.
Published June 28, 2022
Most of us picture cloud security threats as bad actors in some hostile country. More often, it’s you and your coworkers.
Talk about cloud security and you’re likely to discuss provider-focused issues: not enough security, not enough auditing, not enough planning.
Published February 4, 2022
According to research by Connecting Software, Fortune 1000 firms spend 40% of their IT budget on their Integration Infrastructure. Gartner Group’s John-David Lovelock said: “…digital tech initiatives remain a top strategic business priority for companies, focusing spending on making their infrastructure bulletproof and accommodating increasingly complex hybrid work.” He continues that enterprise software will have the highest growth in 2022, driven by infrastructure software spending to outpace application software spending.
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?
Published September 13, 2021
The speed of Information Technology (IT) advancements is astounding. A few years ago, with a little commitment to study, someone could learn enough about IT to build a complete environment by themselves. But today’s hyper-virtualized environments contain so many layers of technology that it takes teams of specialists to be able to build and manage.
Published August 23, 2021
As a child, I felt obliged to read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Having done so, I thought the writing was terrible, the technical descriptions of places tedious, and the songs awful. However, everyone I knew was always quoting phrases from these books, and so I needed to understand the references.
Published July 20, 2021
If you are an enterprise IT professional, you likely know that messaging middleware platforms are amongst the most stable. As a result, you also know that the organization that manages and maintains this critical part of the IT stack can suffer from under-resourcing.
