Last year we published this blog post about the benefits of IBM MQ streaming queues. On July 15th, 2022 this functionality was also made available for MQ on the mainframe (z/OS) and it’s also been announced for the MQ appliance for Aug 2nd, 2022.
When IBM MQ 9.3 was released last month, as discussed here, it was notable (and noted) that this was just for distributed platforms and that news of the mainframe and the appliance would follow.
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.
Apache Kafka is a very popular open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. Amazon MSK is a fully managed Kafka service that makes using Kafka even easier.
The benefits of Apache Kafka monitoring services are widely appreciated across the industry.
Organizations that rely heavily on Apache Kafka for their data streaming needs can derive great benefit from the use of Kafka monitoring services.