While our global leaders attend their political Summits, perhaps they should include an IT GTP Summit to their agendas. As IBM has pointed out [https://twitter.com/IBMintegration], 94% of global banks and 85% of F100 companies use IBM/MQ to carry their transactions from place to place. Frankly, it is the least discussed yet critical [...]
Just a quick blog to those out there who don’t recognize the significance of the picture above. Avada Software had shared this graphic back in 2014 to show the significance of the IBM MQ/IIB middleware stack. Strangely enough, it’s one of those technologies that just works. It’s not on the CIO’s list of [...]
The term APM was coined for application performance monitoring. It defines a criteria for which applications can be monitored for efficiently. The first set of performance metrics defines performance as experienced by end users of the application. An example would be average response times under peak load. The second set of performance metrics measures [...]
It still amazes me to this day how IT organizations, even up to the CIO, seem to enjoy pain. Unlike the characters on Mad Men, my IT career was in the land where employees did not “mix business with pleasure”. Perhaps that’s the reason for the pain. Most of it is self-inflicted. For [...]
By Peter D'Agosta As part of my duties as a Product Manager, I’m often asked to explain emerging technologies in order for Decision Makers to make educated decisions on important initiatives. The word “Cloud” has been tossed around for many years now. While Cloud technology has been available for quite some time, the [...]
Avada Software, an innovative provider of unified management and monitoring solutions for enterprise middleware environments, announced today support for the newly released IBM MQ Appliance from IBM corp. Avada Software's flagship product, Infrared360, provides full administration, self-service, monitoring, statistical reporting, load testing, automation and auditing for enterprise middleware platforms. Avada Software’s innovative architecture, ability to [...]
Avada Software has gotten quite a positive reaction to our Self-Service webcast: Productivity through SMART self-service for IBM MQ & IIB. We thank all those who attended and commented. I’d like to continue the thoughts of that webcast via this blog. One or two replies struck me as odd only because Avada Software has been evangelizing [...]
Is it the fear of spending money? There’s an old adage of ‘pay me now or pay me later’ which references the fact that if you don’t fix something while it’s still possible to fix, it will cost you more in the long run to do either a bigger fix or replace. This one confuses [...]
In 1867 speech in Edinburgh, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli said, “In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.” Similar quotes can be found from progressive thinkers and scientists. "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." John [...]
The Avada Blogosphere is up and running, we might be a touch late to the blogging game, but better late than never! We are excited to share our thoughts on middleware and IT management with you and encourage you to submit topics to us as well-we want to hear from the community! Please let us [...]