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Published March 10, 2022

IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) is a platform that helps you quickly and easily integrate your hybrid cloud applications with the systems and applications that are important for running your business. It can help to collaborate between the different application teams and businesses that exist in your organization and ensure that they are working together at maximum efficiency.

What is IBM Cloud Pak for Integration?
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Published October 12, 2021

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.

Future Trends & Technology for Your Integration Infrastructure
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Published August 4, 2021

Message data is a digital treasure trove for enterprises that need to meet evolving operations performance, CX (customer experience), and even compliance goals.

Figure 1: Leading Integration Infrastructure (i2) messaging applications in hybrid enterprises in 2021
Figure 1: Leading Integration Infrastructure (i2) messaging applications in hybrid enterprises in 2021

“Message Data” includes critical information and context missing from log files and other data sources.  Getting it easier and earlier enables advanced analysis and improvements to begin without delay.

Complete observability and monitoring of your integration infrastructure
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Published July 20, 2021

Nastel Technologies today announced that Nastel XRay, a platform designed for enterprises running mission-critical services powered by messaging middleware, is now available through Red Hat Marketplace. Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across environments—public and private, cloud and on-premises.

Nastel Technologies Announces Availability of Nastel XRay Solution on Red Hat Marketplace
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Published December 15, 2020

Business agility is critical. It’s shocking and saddening to see the number of large household names that we grew up with going into administration. Companies that have always been there and we thought always would stand the test of time.

Speed is King in COVID-19 times
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Published November 6, 2020

Almost exactly 19 years ago IBM acquired CrossWorlds Software to add to their WebSphere business-integration middleware business.  CrossWorlds was famous (or infamous) back then mainly because of its founder and approach to advertising, publicity and PR (public relations).

CX Makes This ‘CrossWorld’ Estate Sexy Again