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Updates
What’s new in IBM MQ 9.3?
The latest long-term support (LTS) and continuous delivery (CD) release of IBM MQ was released for the distributed platforms on June 23, 2022.
MQ 9.3, again, has a focus on securely powering cloud-native applications across hybrid multi-cloud as well as making it easier to get started.
As an IBM partner, our products are ready to support the latest versions and Navigator also helps with migrations. We're here to help. Please reach out for more information.
XRay 1.5 Coming Soon!
The R&D Team is finishing up testing the latest release of XRay for Transaction & Message Flow Tracking & AIOps. Here are a few highlights of the new release:
- Business Flows – Annotated with Progress
- Your business process is visualized, annotated with progress, and clickable to drill into any element.
- Integration infrastructure (i2) Machine Learning Time-to-Value Enhancements for Kafka data as well as IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS, IIB/ACE, and i2 data.
- Using these new models, these new dashboards are immediately created…
- Insight Dashboard
- Anomalies
- Other
- In-product plugin to internal collaboration tool/s (for example Slack, MS Teams, Skype for Business) to enable sharing, chat, etc.
- IoT and Presentation Enhancements
- The theme for shared viewlets (white theme/background)
- Map Viewlets with country-level views [delivered in 1.4 updates]
- Multi-user Security for Volumes (to lock down Solr) [GUI support for managing volumes in 1.5, added as manual option in 1.3/1.4 updates]
- Solace i2 Data Source Enhancements [adding Navigator-for-Solace data]
- Using these new models, these new dashboards are immediately created…
G2 Review Request - Share Your Insights
Your peers come to G2 to research AIOps Platforms and other business solutions. Adding your perspective will help others pick the right solution based on real user experiences.
We are offering a reward for reviews of its solutions, we are paying $50 per review. Click here to review.
Nastel Technologies Advisory Board
The Nastel Technologies Customer Advisory Board held its annual meeting in June and here are two findings:
Two-thirds of Board Members would like to learn more about these topics in the next year:
- Tools for Cloud Migration & Management of IBM MQ and/or IIB
- Advanced Monitoring and Observability
- Adding Cloud Native Messaging Middleware to Our Current Estate
- Adding Cloud Native Messaging Middleware to Our Current Estate
Discussion of priorities revealed these results from your peers:
The Board also showed interest in how best to use Nastel in combination with other analytics platforms, Nastel embracing the OpenTelemetry standard, and in making Nastel products, especially XRay, easy to use for “business” and other non-traditional users for select use cases.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Board (or having you or your company join for 2023), just let your Nastel TAM (Technical Account Manager) or Sales Executive know.
Middleware Performance Benchmark
Have you ever wondered whether a different messaging middleware platform would perform better for your business?
We have released an update to our middleware performance report including testing of the latest versions of the middleware plus some new ones.
This middleware performance benchmark report outlines the performance of these commonly used messaging middleware platforms:
- IBM MQ
- RabbitMQ
- Apache Kafka
- ActiveMQ Classic
- ActiveMQ Artemis
- Apache Pulsar
- TIBCO EMS
The report also includes details on the methodology, environment, the tests performed, results, and conclusions.
Whether you are building a new app, upgrading existing, or migrating workloads, this report will give you a new perspective.
Download the free report today!
Our Blog
Have a look at our latest blog: Monitor IBM MQ Appliance Metrics.
Please read and share these recent blogs to help spread the word:
- Make Money Reviewing IBM MQ, DataPower & Nastel
- What’s New In IBM MQ 9.3
- Just How Important Is Your Integration Infrastructure?
Click HERE to read our blog.
Webinars & TechTalks
OnDemand Webinar featuring Forrester: Total Economic Impact of Nastel’s Integration Infrastructure Management
You can watch the replay of this month’s very popular webinar. It detailed a real customer story, based on a Forrester study, of the ROI achieved for MQ, Kafka, TIBCO & IIB Management.
In the webinar featuring Forrester: Total Economic Impact of Nastel’s Integration Infrastructure Management, you hear from:
- A Forrester consultant on how Forrester developed its findings based on an actual customer deployment
- Nastel on why companies are choosing Nastel to manage and monitor their integration infrastructure securely
Get the study - compliments of Nastel!
Podcast - i2M
IBM's Exclusive New Interview with Sam Garforth in which he discusses the need for dedicated Integration Infrastructure Management.
OnDemand Webinars
Click HERE to see our library of other on-demand sessions.
Keeping up with Nastel
On Thursday, December 16th, 2021, we announced Nastel Products Are Not Affected by Log4j Vulnerability Issues. Here is the press release that discusses how Nastel Technologies customers will not be exposed to any risks from this vulnerability, but enterprises are encouraged to check with their Cloud and other solution vendors to protect themselves and their data:
Nastel Products Are Not Affected by Log4j Vulnerability Issues
We want to ensure you and your colleagues can easily find all our recent press releases and other news, so here is the Nastel News archive for your convenience.
Click HERE to read Nastel news.