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Secure Collaboration and Delegated Administration in Enterprise Middleware Management: A 20-Year Idea

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF AVADA SOFTWARE & INFRARED360 Secure collaboration and delegated administration in enterprise middleware management may sound like a response to today's hybrid IT complexity. But the idea reaches back to the market [...]

By |November 3rd, 2026|
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IBM MQ Explorer Alternative: Why Infrared360 Goes Beyond a Replacement

IBM has announced the deprecation of MQ Explorer, raising an urgent question for MQ administrators: What’s next? For organizations evaluating an IBM MQ Explorer alternative, the answer shouldn't simply be migrating to another basic [...]

By |October 15th, 2026|
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IBM MQ Capacity Planning: Why Queue Depth Is Only Part of the Picture

When people think about IBM MQ capacity planning, queue depth is often one of the first things they look at. That makes sense. If messages are piling up on a queue, something may not [...]

By |September 24th, 2026|
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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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November 3rd, 2026|

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF AVADA SOFTWARE & INFRARED360

Secure collaboration and delegated administration in enterprise middleware management may sound like a response to today’s hybrid IT complexity. But the idea reaches back to the market trends that helped inspire Avada Software. Back in 2012 an Avada paper examined a contradiction: business units were increasingly sharing infrastructure to control costs, yet the specialists supporting their applications could not safely share access. […]

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October 28th, 2026|

If you use IBM MQ Explorer, you probably have a few familiar routines. Check a queue, investigate a channel, update an object, or find out why an application isn’t processing its messages. When you’re evaluating another administration tool, those are the tasks you want to see working.

Infrared360® lets you perform many of these tasks through a browser, with options for delegated access, historical reporting, and automation. Our

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October 15th, 2026|

IBM has announced the deprecation of MQ Explorer, raising an urgent question for MQ administrators: What’s next?

For organizations evaluating an IBM MQ Explorer alternative, the answer shouldn’t simply be migrating to another basic GUI or forcing a shift to GitOps. It should be an opportunity to adopt a better way to administer MQ. More Than an MQ Explorer Replacement

From global enterprises managing thousands of queue managers […]

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October 14th, 2026|

Heading to IBM TechXchange in Atlanta this year? If IBM MQ is part of your day-to-day work, you’ll want to make time for the MQ User Group on Monday, October 26.

It’s a chance to hear directly from IBM, see how others are approaching common MQ challenges, and connect with people who understand what it takes to keep enterprise messaging running.

Avada Software will be joining the afternoon vendor session to explore […]

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September 24th, 2026|

When people think about IBM MQ capacity planning, queue depth is often one of the first things they look at.

That makes sense. If messages are piling up on a queue, something may not be keeping pace.

But queue depth only tells you part of the story.

An MQ environment can start running into capacity problems before a queue ever reaches an alarming depth. The real issue might be […]

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September 17th, 2026|

A queue is backing up. An application team is reporting failed transactions. Or while investigating an unrelated routing issue, you discover messages that simply look out of place.

Standard IBM MQ message browsing lets administrators and support teams inspect queue contents without consuming or removing messages.[1]

But in active enterprise environments, discovering a suspicious message is rarely the end of the investigation—it is where operational triage begins.

Once a problematic […]

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