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IBM MQ Explorer: What is it? What does it do?

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 [...]

By |2022-08-12T19:33:52-04:00August 12th, 2020|General|

GLOBAL TRANSACTION PIPELINE [GTP]

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 [...]

By |2018-08-23T19:19:55-04:00August 3rd, 2018|Infrared360® Blog|

RESPECT YOUR PIPES!

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 [...]

By |2018-07-27T16:08:36-04:00July 20th, 2018|General, Infrared360® Blog|

DO YOU NEED APM or AEM?

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 [...]

By |2022-04-19T12:40:47-04:00February 16th, 2018|Infrared360® Blog|

How IT pains me!

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 |2017-12-13T23:17:02-05:00December 13th, 2017|Infrared360® Blog|

TRANSACTIONS IN THE CLOUD, MADE SIMPLE

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 [...]

By |2016-11-30T21:38:09-05:00October 17th, 2016|Infrared360® Blog|

AVADA SOFTWARE SUPPORTS NEWLY RELEASED IBM MQ APPLIANCE

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 [...]

By |2023-04-06T15:19:29-04:00October 13th, 2015|Infrared360® Blog|

ON SELF-SERVICE ADMINISTRATION AND COMPLIANCE

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 [...]

By |2016-11-30T21:38:10-05:00June 16th, 2015|Infrared360® Blog|

WHY THE FEAR OF CHANGE-PART 2-CHANGE VS FEAR

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 [...]

By |2018-06-07T17:59:34-04:00December 31st, 2014|Infrared360® Blog|

WHY THE FEAR OF CHANGE?? PART 1

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 [...]

By |2018-06-07T17:59:26-04:00December 12th, 2014|Infrared360® Blog|
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