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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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Future Trends & Technology for Your Integration Infrastructure

Published September 21, 2021

IT Ops Automation and AIOps Tools: Tips for 2022

By meshIQ

What do you most want to learn about to advance your career or help your organization excel and gain a competitive advantage in 2022?

TIP #1: What is Trending with Your Peers?

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IT Ops Automation and AIOps Tools: Tips for 2022

Published September 13, 2021

Jack of all Trades, Master of One

By meshIQ

The speed of Information Technology (IT) advancements is astounding. A few years ago, with a little commitment to study, someone could learn enough about IT to build a complete environment by themselves. But today’s hyper-virtualized environments contain so many layers of technology that it takes teams of specialists to be able to build and manage.

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meshIQ Middleware Management and Observability Platform

Published September 10, 2021

The Tao of our Software

By meshIQ

I don’t remember when, but sometime in the mid-90s, I was at a friend’s house in upstate New York and while browsing through the bookshelf came across an old worn-out copy of The Tao Te Ching by the Chinese philosopher and writer Lao-Tze.

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Published September 9, 2021

Do you need faster, more reliable & secure delivery of requested middleware configuration changes?

By meshIQ

Do you need faster, more reliable & secure delivery of requested middleware configuration changes?

Do you find that the processes your team needs to follow to reliably deliver changes to your middleware messaging are taking too long for your business’s release schedule?

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Do you need faster, more reliable & secure delivery of requested middleware configuration changes?

Published September 1, 2021

IBM MQ 9.2.3 Streaming Queues: Your Integration Infrastructure (i2) Data Win

By Steven Menges

By now, you have probably seen the announcement for IBM MQ 9.2.3. The first thing to mention is that Nastel had support for 9.2.3 right away. Nastel Technologies is an integration infrastructure management (i2M) solutions company, and IBM MQ is at the heart of most enterprises’ integration infrastructure (i2).

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IBM MQ 9.2.3 Streaming Queues: Your Integration Infrastructure (i2) Data Win

Published August 31, 2021

Integration Infrastructure Management is the New Black

By meshIQ

Information Technology (IT) has moved through many clearly defined eras. I don’t feel the need to list them all, but the latest one clearly is the move from discrete computers to virtualized software-configured environments, that we all colloquially call “the cloud”.

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Integration Infrastructure Management is the New Black

Published August 30, 2021

DevOps’ Problem with Speed-to-Market Explained: IBM MQ, Multi-Middleware Role in Deploying New Applications & Updates

By meshIQ

If your organization is frustrated with how long it takes to roll out new applications and updates, they are not alone. Speed-to-market is an obsession at many companies today (see call-out box below), so anything that restricts or slows it down is a problem.

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76% Of Enterprises Prioritize AI & Machine Learning In 2021 IT Budgets

Published August 26, 2021

Microservices Without Observability Is Madness

By meshIQ

As I said before, Speed is King. Business requirements for applications and architecture change all the time, driven by changes in customer needs, competition, and innovation and this only seems to be accelerating.

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Microservices Without Observability Is Madness

Published August 24, 2021

Who is Driving Enterprise-wide Innovation, Transformation, Cloud Strategy and More?

By meshIQ

Today’s decision-making is different than even a few years ago. More “data” is used, and the data inputs take several forms, including humans.

A big part of today’s strategy and decision-making at enterprise-class organizations are committees, made up of a company’s subject matter experts and relevant stakeholders for a critical company initiative. They may meet quarterly or as needed and the committee work is in addition to their “day job.”

In a recent survey of decision-makers and professionals working in, or overseeing, integration infrastructure (i2) architecture or operations at large enterprises, we found that these corporate priorities warranted having a committee:

Top Committees in 2021:

Cloud Strategy
IT Transformation
Innovation
Risk Management
Quality / Customer Experience (CX) Improvement
Other – Integrations

Upon further discussion with senior executives, we kept hearing that while all committees officially drove strategy and direction for their initiative, the named initiatives with both a committee and an attached budget to fund the initiative made progress much more quickly.

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