Nastel technical specialist, Terry House, has written a blog post here looking at the IBM MQ appliance and comparing it to the traditional software form of IBM MQ. He explores the additional security and cost benefits and also the additional monitoring and management requirements that are addressed by the Nastel Navigator X i2M platform.
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