Integration is now the #1 IT expense category at many enterprises and new complexities increase the burden on Service Delivery, CI/CD, IBM MQ administration, and other “integration professionals” every day. Your enterprise has Microservices, Mobile, Mainframes, Cloud, and more applications and application updates than you can count and it takes the routing of transactions, messages and more through a rapidly growing integration infrastructure layer to make it all work together. That is now a trend.
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”.
As I said before, Speed is King. Business requirements for applications and architecture change all the time, driven by changes in customer needs, competition, and innovation and this only seems to be accelerating.
Today’s decision-making is different than even a few years ago. More “data” is used, and the data inputs take several forms, including humans.
A big part of today’s strategy and decision-making at enterprise-class organizations are committees, made up of a company’s subject matter experts and relevant stakeholders for a critical company initiative. They may meet quarterly or as needed and the committee work is in addition to their “day job.”
In a recent survey of decision-makers and professionals working in, or overseeing, integration infrastructure (i2) architecture or operations at large enterprises, we found that these corporate priorities warranted having a committee:
Top Committees in 2021:
Cloud Strategy
IT Transformation
Innovation
Risk Management
Quality / Customer Experience (CX) Improvement
Other - Integrations
Upon further discussion with senior executives, we kept hearing that while all committees officially drove strategy and direction for their initiative, the named initiatives with both a committee and an attached budget to fund the initiative made progress much more quickly.
I just heard that businesses are repatriating cloud workloads.
I was told, “The history of IT is paved with dreams of lower costs, better performance, and higher reliability through migrations to new platforms and languages and new architectures and infrastructures.”
“Some of the biggest recorded IT waste has been when companies focus on the ‘next big thing’ and have issues achieving successful implementations.
If you are an enterprise IT professional, you likely know that messaging middleware platforms are amongst the most stable. As a result, you also know that the organization that manages and maintains this critical part of the IT stack can suffer from under-resourcing.
Nastel Technologies today announced that Nastel XRay, a platform designed for enterprises running mission-critical services powered by messaging middleware, is now available through Red Hat Marketplace. Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace for enterprise customers to discover, try, purchase, deploy, and manage certified container-based software across environments—public and private, cloud and on-premises.
Nastel Technologies today announces the immediate availability of Navigator 10.2, the leading messaging middleware administration & configuration management solution for banks and global enterprises.
IBM Integration Bus (IIB) and IBM MQ are central to global banks.
Your strategy is to move everything to software configured and cloud-connected existence. I can say this with absolute confidence because quite frankly this is everyone’s strategy in 2021.
With cloud thinking, every decision becomes an operational choice without the historical lags previously associated with massive capital changes.
The problems of the past did not go away, they just continue to grow in complexity as environments grow. There is a mathematical, formula that shows that as the number of sub-components grows then the number of interconnections that must be managed grow at an exponential or even geometric rate.
