Understanding External Influences on Your Integration Strategy and Direction As integration strategies continue to evolve, IBM Integration has taken some bold new steps in product and feature delivery. Watch this Keynote session to understand IBM’s direction for messaging and integration and how it will help you attack the shift to digital transformation with [...]
Agents of Kaos in IT Infrastructure Monitoring In the world of IT infrastructure monitoring and management solutions there has been a lot of debate about agent-based vs. agentless architectures. Deciding between an agent-based vs. agentless approach can have a big impact on the efficiency and management of your day-to-day operations [...]
Written by Peter D'Agosta My very last business trip before the coronavirus appeared (actually after it appeared elsewhere in the world) was NY to Dallas for a tech conference. Most have been lightly attended in recent years due to less tech resources on staff to companies, especially those who are integral to their companies [...]
First up, to run IBM MQ Explorer, you need to know if you have the horsepower, er, installation requirements, to get started. You are looking at 512mb RAM, a 1 GHz processor, and 300 mb disk storage. A big monitor is also a recommended, since the UI is not exactly small screen friendly. Get [...]
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 efficiency. 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’s flagship product, Infrared360®, is an IT management portal providing total administration, monitoring, testing, auditing, analytics dashboards, and self-service for cloud, on-prem, or hybrid environments. Get secure, collaborative management of elements across your IT stack like Kafka®, IBM® MQ, IBM® ACE/IIB, ActiveMQ®, WebSphere®, JBoss®, and Tomcat® Application Servers, URLs, SOAP & REST-based web services, IBM® DataPower® and MQ Appliance.
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