Published April 29, 2022
As systems get ever more complicated with more layers in the application stack, it can become more difficult to keep track of what is happening at all of the different, discrete levels and this is where distributed tracing comes into play.
Published March 29, 2022
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.
Published March 24, 2022
Enterprises Relying on IBM MQ, Kafka, TIBCO EMS, Solace PubSub+, and Other i2 are Adopting Nastel Navigator for Integration Infrastructure Management (i2M)
Nastel Technologies today announced the immediate availability of Nastel Navigator 10.4, the world’s leading integration infrastructure administration and secure self-service configuration management solution.
Published March 22, 2022
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.
Published March 17, 2022
Apache Kafka is a distributed messaging system that can be used to build applications with high throughput and resilience. It is often used in conjunction with other big data technologies, such as Hadoop and Spark. Kafka-based applications are typically used for real-time data processing, including streaming analytics, fraud detection, and customer sentiment analysis.
Published March 8, 2022
There’s a lot to consider when engineering and implementing software, whether as an update patch or a newly-introduced product. End users have certain expectations when introduced to new or updated software—at the top of the list are aesthetics, ease of use, stability, and response time—the last two of which can be significantly improved when you employ application performance management or APM.
Published February 25, 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI, also called Machine Learning) is certainly making its way in the world. Technologies such as Voice Recognition, Face Recognition, Predictive Analytics, Self-driving cars, and Robotics are now becoming embedded into our society. With the advent of big-data, these technologies can become more and more powerful and more and more a part of our everyday lives.
Published February 4, 2022
According to research by Connecting Software, Fortune 1000 firms spend 40% of their IT budget on their Integration Infrastructure. Gartner Group’s John-David Lovelock said: “…digital tech initiatives remain a top strategic business priority for companies, focusing spending on making their infrastructure bulletproof and accommodating increasingly complex hybrid work.” He continues that enterprise software will have the highest growth in 2022, driven by infrastructure software spending to outpace application software spending.
Published November 26, 2021
Life for an IT architect in retail would be so much easier if people would just spread their shopping out across the year.
Since 1941 American Thanksgiving has been a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November and most American companies and schools take the following day as a holiday too with major retailers offering price reductions on this day to kick start the Christmas shopping season.
Published November 17, 2021
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.
