Steven Menges, Author at meshIQ

Published July 14, 2022

Middleware & Integration Staff Issue? – F500 Bank Found a Better Approach

By Steven Menges

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.

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Middleware & Integration Staff Issue? – F500 Bank Found a Better Approach

Published July 4, 2022

Thank You 2022 Nastel Advisory Board Members!

By Steven Menges

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.

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Thank You 2022 Nastel Advisory Board Members!

Published April 4, 2022

Industry Experts Weigh in on “Digital First,” On-Prem vs. Cloud & “Data Driven” Enterprises

By Steven Menges

Industry analysts do primary research and two of the best, IDC and EMA (Enterprise Management Associates), have recently published some great insights for enterprises in 3 areas:

1.Digital First

Analyst firm IDC has revealed that their “Key Predictions for 2022 and Beyond” include that companies are dramatically accelerating their “Digital-first” initiatives to win in the customer experience (CX) wars and the race to increase digital revenue streams.

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Published March 29, 2022

Data-Driven Enterprise (or Just Talking Like One)?

By Steven Menges

Who’s faking it? Data-driven decision-making (and ensuring related investment is delivering on its promises) has been elevated in importance. Every enterprise is replacing opinion with data-driven decision-making, correct?

A brand new research report from EMA (Enterprise Management Associates) titled, “A Data-Driven Enterprise” looks behind the curtain to separate facts and reality from fiction and aspiration. Here are some of the findings from the latest research on enterprises.

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Data-Driven Enterprise (or Just Talking Like One)?

Published November 17, 2021

Enterprises Just Got an Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) Upgrade, Intelligence from Their Integration

By Steven Menges

November 2021 is a good month if you’re a Fortune 500 or Global 2000 enterprise. The investments your organization has made in “integration” over the years were necessary as the organization and the IT infrastructure grew, but the Integration Infrastructure (i2) has likely been considered a necessary evil by senior management. That investment can now be leveraged in two important, new ways.

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Enterprises Just Got an Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) Upgrade, Intelligence from Their Integration

Published November 13, 2021

Nastel Releases i2-aware AIOps, Analytics & Tracking Platform for Complex Enterprises

By Steven Menges

XRay 1.4 Solution Plugs Data and Analytics Gaps for Enterprises to Enable Insights from the Integration Infrastructure (i2) Layer, IoT, and Containers.

Nastel Technologies, the leader in Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) solutions for complex enterprises, today announced the immediate availability of the XRay AIOps and Tracing and Tracking solution's latest release.

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Nastel Releases i2-aware AIOps, Analytics & Tracking Platform for Complex Enterprises

Published November 12, 2021

Infrastructure Integration Management (i2M) Drives Gains for Complex Enterprises.

By Steven Menges

Nastel Navigator v10.3 Enables Speed-to-market, Competitive Advantages Across IBM MQ, IBM Integration Bus, IBM ACE, Kafka, TIBCO EMS, and i2 Estates.

Nastel Technologies, the leader in integration infrastructure management (i2M) solutions for complex enterprises, today announced the general availability of Nastel Navigator™ version 10.3, a vital component of The Nastel Platform and the Navigator X solution.

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Infrastructure Integration Management (i2M) Drives Gains for Complex Enterprises.

Published November 9, 2021

Observability, AIOps, APM, and i2M: The Partner Ecosystem for IBM MQ Enterprises

By Steven Menges

Complex enterprises have an integration infrastructure (i2) layer that connects technologies and applications across cloud, data center, virtualized systems, mainframe, edge computing, etc.

Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M) is the “management” of the i2 layer and includes:

Configuration and security management
Monitoring and fault management
Alerting and automation
Performance optimization

The i2 layer includes a core middleware application (such as IBM MQ) along with many other “integration” technologies, such as MFT (managed file transfer), IoT, REST APIs, DataPower Gateway, and other messaging technologies (i.e., Kafka, TIBCO EMS, IBM ACE, IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and more).

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Observability, AIOps, APM, and i2M: The Partner Ecosystem for IBM MQ Enterprises

Published November 4, 2021

CIOs, Leaders Facing Unprecedented Empowerment and Challenges – Top Predictions

By Steven Menges

Researchers and thought leaders shared 3 predictions for enterprise CIOs and IT leaders that are particularly relevant and important to consider as we move into 2022:

Prediction 1: Through 2026, 65% of CIOs will sustain a cycle of tech-based empowerment, agility, and resilience through collaborative governance, new service delivery models, and a business outcomes orientation.

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CIOs, Leaders Facing Unprecedented Empowerment and Challenges – Top Predictions

Published October 12, 2021

Future Trends & Technology for Your Integration Infrastructure

By Steven Menges

Integration is now the #1 IT expense category at many enterprises and new complexities increase the burden on Service Delivery, CI/CD, IBM MQ administration, and other “integration professionals” every day. Your enterprise has Microservices, Mobile, Mainframes, Cloud, and more applications and application updates than you can count and it takes the routing of transactions, messages and more through a rapidly growing integration infrastructure layer to make it all work together. That is now a trend.

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