Published August 31, 2021
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”.
Published July 9, 2021
AIOps is an area of technology that is developing rapidly and is generally accepted to mean “using machine learning to contextualize large amounts of data”.
While data analytics systems are great at identifying unusual patterns in large amounts of data (for example in a data lake) they can be quite poor at providing context to the signals they detect.
Published July 8, 2021
The Nastel Technologies Advisory Board was formed in 2021, a critical time for enterprises today. Made up of business and IT leaders from a wide variety of sectors, the common thread is that these enterprise leaders and innovators understand the incredibly important role of the integration infrastructure layer (including messaging middleware and much more) in their hybrid enterprises.
Published April 1, 2021
What’s new in MQ 9.2.2?
The most recent Continuous Delivery (CD) release for IBM MQ became generally available on March 25th, 2021. CD releases provide insight into what the next Long Term Support (LTS) release will look at.
Published February 23, 2021
The pandemic hit, and the world has changed forever. I do not mean to sound overdramatic, but having 100% remote working, and 100% e-business forced on much of the business world, we have had to learn a lot of rather uncomfortable lessons.
Published October 15, 2020
Who has actually made the move off of the mainframe?
The answer is almost no one, we still all have them sitting in the basement doing what they have always done.
Published August 11, 2020
There is a fundamental issue in the SaaS market; If a SaaS company makes more money from services that from their software, then they are not motivated to make their software better, because it would actually reduce their revenue.
Published June 15, 2020
Previously I wrote about the difference in technology today compared to when MQ first came out. One of the areas that is most notable is network speed and how that relates to I/O as well as reliability.
Published March 11, 2020
The coronavirus seems to be a very infectious, but generally a low-impact infection for most people. What this means is that because most people who are infected are not terribly incapacitated, they are able to keep working.
