WebSphere MQ was developed in the early 1990’s to fill a need in many applications for Asynchronous Application to Application Communication. This concept is still a primary requirement of many applications, including Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud computing. Much like email provides asynchronous communication between individuals, WebSphere MQ provided the ability for applications on disparate platforms to communicate easier than ever before, even across companies. Many applications were designed to leverage the wealth of data stored on legacy systems without needing to rewrite the interfaces to that data or to disperse it to multiple systems.

Over 95% of the Fortune 1000 companies use WebSphere MQ for their messaging system. In fact, it is the most popular system for messaging across multiple platforms (85% market share). This paper reviews and summarizes the highlights of the recent releases of IBM’s WebSphere MQ 7.1 and 7.5. It is the first in a series of papers around the current changes in WebSphere MQ.

DevOps is a hot topic right now, and for good reason. Today’s application environments have become far too complex to deploy and manage with silo teams and stand-alone tools. Instead, they require coordination and collaboration across virtually all silos, and this is typically accomplished with teams of senior specialists with skill sets spanning Development and Operations. Tools play a key role in DevOps, as the right tools can be a bridge supplying a “common language” across teams with diverse skillsets and “technology languages.”

The complexity of one management system per messaging infrastructure is too costly and when these infrastructures are interconnected, the management systems become ineffective. These firms require one place to monitor, visualize and analyze the status of applications and services shared across the enterprise environment. However, the skill set required to manage each middleware technology is often different and a single business flow can traverse multiple different transports and support teams. This makes unified monitoring of messages across the infrastructure and the ability to track them and rapidly identify and correct problems anywhere in that flow an essential element in improving service and reducing cost—perhaps, even a necessity for survival

A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city in becoming a smart city. This PPT focuses on Saudi Arabia which once known as a city in the desert has become known for its knowledge economy.

A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city into a smart city. This PPT focuses on Chattanooga in the USA which has transformed from a dirty city into a gig city.

A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city in becoming a smart city. This PPT focuses the prosperous Zurich which is set to become a 2000 Watt society.

A presentation exploring the involvement of citzens in the development of their city in becoming a smart city. This PPT focuses on Wuxi in China which has transformed from an ancient city to internet of things.

For Enterprise organizations, utilization of software as a service (SaaS) applications means easier budgeting, faster deployment, and reduced risk. For cloud service providers and established on-premise software publishers, SaaS presents a new opportunity to give customers what they want—while ensuring recurring revenue streams and exploring new markets. The future of software delivery is clear. It’s the path to software monetization in the cloud that becomes foggy for both cloud service providers and established software publishers. While delivering software as a service opens many doors for software vendors, it also presents a new set of challenges. This paper explores the top six challenges software publishers are faced with, and presents a quick and easy way for SaaS providers to define their service catalogs, provision and control user access at the feature level, measure service usage for billing and business intelligence purposes, and instantly adapt their service catalog to embrace new and evolving market opportunities.

The value of cloud services lies in the rapid and cost-effective instantiation of
applications that can be consumed by users anywhere. Enterprises expect cloud
services to increase their agility in turning up applications while simplifying their
operations. For cloud services to thrive, the networks within and across datacenters
must evolve to become as virtualized and readily available as the server and storage
infrastructure. For the business value of cloud services to be delivered, compute and
network resources must both be dynamic and instantly available.