MQ Appliance "Steak and Learn" Seminar

IBM and our Premier Business Partner, Prolifics, are pleased to invite you to MQ Appliance - Steak and Learn.  This event is designed for IT and business leaders seeking to explore key technology trends and to connect with industry thought leaders.

During the seminar, you will learn how to:

• Utilize the fully enabled "plug and play" feature of the new MQ Appliance
• Secure both your data and you messaging deployment with Advanced Message Security (AMS)
• Leverage different levels of MQ, such as MQ for Developers, MQ Lite, and MQ on Bluemix

To view the full agenda and to register, visit our Seminar Page.  We hop that you join us in sharing insights as we take deep dive in the new and exciting IBM MQ Appliance.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2015

11:30 am - 3:30 pm

Capital Grille

10 Wayside Road

Burlington, MA  01803

Feel free to contact me for more information.

An Introduction about IBM MQ and why it is essential for enterprise messaging.

NEW DATE! MQ, the Digital Economy & You - Webinar, May 12

A Premier IBM Business Partner, TxMQ's core mission is to help enterprises get the most from their middleware. That's why they are leading discussions like these. Their next conversation is coming up quickly. It's a webinar that focuses on the state of MQ as an integration and security backbone amidst the convergence of forces such as mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things. They call it MQ, the Digital Economy & You.

Topics for this hour-long session on Tuesday, May 12th include:

• How to leverage your MQ investment to address new enterprise projects and demands
• Latent and new features within MQ
• An MQ capability maturity model for your organization
• Why MQ performance boosts UX and drives customer satisfaction
• Measuring the true capacity of your MQ
• Meeting today's security standards with MQ

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Don't Miss the May 14 Messaging in a Box Webcast!

Messaging is a critical capability for most customers. IBM MQ has a strong history and large customer base, providing a messaging solution for over 20 years. There have been some excellent enhancements to IBM MQ recently, including the very notable launch of the IBM MQ Appliance. The MQ Appliance provides innovation in terms of ease of deployment, ease of maintenance, and especially ease of high availability with excellent capabilities. It provides tremendous savings in time to deployment.

The MQ Appliance includes powerful security support, including securing messages at rest as well as in flight. Truly, the MQ Appliance starts a new beginning for simplicity for messaging infrastructures -- a re-invention of enabling messaging deployments with excellent use cases to offer server consolidation, remote outpost deployments, and partner connectivity. In this webcast, we will review the importance of messaging, what elements make a good messaging system, and how the MQ Appliance provides a new level of automation, power, simplicity, and value for messaging.

Webcast Details

• Date and Time:  Thursday, May 14, 2015; 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST
• Speaker:  Brian Wilson, North American IBM MQ Appliance Technical Leader
• Register Now: https://engage.vevent.com/index.jsp?eid=556&seid=78300

IBM MQ vs. Apache ActiveMQ Performance Comparison Update

This article describes results of the persistent messaging performance tests that I carried out in the last 2 months using IBM MQ v8.0 (formerly WebSphere MQ) and Apache ActiveMQ 5.11.