We can make your IBM estate ready for a hybrid and event-driven world.
We wanted to get away from incumbent vendors like TIBCO RV, TIBCO EMS, and IBM MQ. We had all of these different messaging systems, and I was deploying them across hundreds and hundreds of servers. Every time I needed to make a change to that environment… it was very difficult to do it in a way that didn’t cause some form of disruption.”
Joshua Carroll
Global Head of Market Data at RBC Capital Markets
What was once a default messaging layer for your on-premises IBM estate
is now a barrier to your enterprise’s modernization.
Lack of in-service upgrades, restrictive public-cloud integration, and rigid topic management are all barriers to real-time use cases.
Prone to split-brain scenarios and needs expensive licenses to implement proper HA/DR.
Protocol support, DR support, and upgrade paths all significantly vary by form factor.
Built for batch processing and request/reply interactions, it cannot help you sense and respond to business events.
We have helped enterprises reduce their MQ estate with the following model:
Solace PubSub+ Platform helps enterprises design, deploy, and manage event-driven applications across their hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and IoT environments. For a closer look at how PubSub+ overcomes the limitations of IBM MQ, download this datasheet.
We can help you modernize. Use the following resources to build a case to modernize your middleware:
Let us look at the approach
we take for common IBM environments:
The following picture depicts a typical deployment of ACE with MQ and transaction hosts:
ACE is used for integrating with transaction hosts like mainframe and mid-range-based applications, among others, and has connectivity nodes for MQ and Mainframe using Cobol copybook.
After the migration, native JMS applications will be unchanged as Solace supports JMS 1.1 specs. Application servers can communicate with Solace either on JMS or using the JCA resource adapter.
Typically, DataPower appliances are hosted in a DMZ, passing traffic to a core network containing another set of DataPower appliances or an MQ Cluster. PubSub+ is a natural choice for MQ replacement in this scenario as it provides a complete datapath eliminating MQ clusters.
