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David Hickman

SL RTView Monitor Enables Easier Monitoring of Solace Hybrid Cloud Deployments

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David Hickman leads SL’s Product Marketing initiatives.

SL and have Solace have been working together for over a year now to perfect a monitoring solution for both Solace messaging appliances and Solace VMRs.  RTView® Monitor for Solace is now available for a free 30-day trial as an Amazon AMI download.

Monitoring Solace VMRs in the cloud is easy.  Just “download” our Amazon AMI, start it up in your AWS environment and point it to your Solace VMRs to get started.

The trick was not just monitoring a single instance, but rather monitoring every single instance of deployed Solace messaging regardless of location and version.  That’s right.  Monitor physical appliances and VMRs in the same dashboard.  Have Solace on-premise and in the cloud?  No problem.  More than one cloud provider?  We monitor hybrid cloud environments for breakfast! Deployed in containers?  We can monitor all of that.

Built on top of the RTView Enterprise platform, you can use RTView Monitor for Solace as a standalone tool, or you can monitor your entire middleware and application environment by choosing from dozens of Solution Packages for common middleware and application infrastructure components. … Read the rest

Dave McAllister

Webinar Recap: Solace: Messaging with Purpose on Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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On May 30, Solace Senior Architect Jonathan Schabowsky explained how messaging and microservices work with Pivotal Cloud Foundry as part of a Brighttalk webinar. He provided a great introduction to the concept of microservices and then dove into the details of architectural considerations.

As part of that he covered how Platform as a Service (PaaS) makes it easier to deliver on the microservice promise by eliminating some of the distractions that app developers face while providing a “deploy anywhere” capability. But, as Jonathan covers, “deploy anywhere” comes with its own headaches around communication and data movement.

Jonathan dug into a comparison of REST and other open protocols, like AMQP and MQTT. One of his comments (often mentioned in technology) refers to the fact that not everything is a nail to the REST hammer. Fortunately, we find out that there are a lot of different tools available in the Solace toolbox. You can find even more on microservices on the Solace dev site and find code, demos and more examples on the Labs site and Github repositories.… Read the rest

Solace

Solace Boosts Market-Leading Performance to Meet Needs of Most Demanding Hybrid Cloud and IoT Applications

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New Products Enable Extreme Performance for Customers Requiring Very High Capacity and Hybrid Architecture that Spans Public and Private Clouds

Ottawa, Ontario, May 23, 2017 – Solace, the leading provider of open data movement technology, announced today a new version of its Virtual Message Router (VMR) software and two hardware blades for its market leading 3560 appliance. The new products increase the already best-in-class performance of Solace’s open data movement platform, which lets applications and devices exchange data across clouds and datacenters using open APIs and protocols including JMS, MQTT, AMQP, REST and WebSocket.

“To power next-generation big data, e-commerce and Internet of Things applications, companies are turning to distributed applications made up of cloud-based microservices, which makes the real-time movement of data across clouds mission-critical,” said Shawn McAllister, Solace CTO. “These enhancements to our open data movement platform meet the needs of our demanding customers whether they’re horizontally scaling VMR software in public clouds, vertically scaling appliances in private clouds and legacy datacenters, or taking a hybrid approach that we uniquely enable.”

Version 8.2 of the Virtual Message Router improves upon the VMR’s already industry-leading guaranteed messaging performance by increasing throughput to 640,000 guaranteed messages per second in fan-out scenarios and 80,000 guaranteed messages per second when routing messages on a 1:1 basis.

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Larry Neumann

Emphasis on SAP Leonardo at SAPPHIRE NOW 2017

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This week at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando the focus was on SAP Leonardo, an “innovation services platform” that offers advanced services in the areas of IoT, machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. It’s an ambitious project that builds on SAP Cloud by adding business services designed to help companies embrace IoT at scale and modernize their traditional workloads while transitioning to the cloud.

In addition, SAP has started layering vertical projects on top of Leonardo, such as SAP Connected Goods for retailers and SAP Vehicle Insights for firms managing fleets of connected “planes, trains and automobiles.” It’s all a logical path forward for a company with such deep industry expertise and customer relationships.

These applications are all layered above a set of core PaaS services within the SAP Cloud Platform, including SAP Enterprise Messaging. As we have previously announced, Solace is the messaging foundation of that service, at the core of all these high-volume real time data streams.… Read the rest

Larry Neumann

Solace Says: CTO Shawn McAllister on Hybrid Cloud Data Movement

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In this edition of Solace Says, I interviewed Solace’s CTO Shawn McAllister to get his thoughts on hybrid cloud data movement. Here’s the 6-minute video, with the full transcript below. It’s a good introduction to the topic, and if you want to dive deeper after watching the video I recommend you read the substantial blog post Shawn wrote on the subject, and watch the video that explains the concept visually. You can find both on our hybrid cloud data movement page.

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Shawn McAllister

Solace Pivotal Cloud Foundry Tile is now GA!

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This is an exciting time for us, our friends at Pivotal and our user community as we take our next step on improving accessibility to Solace Open Data Movement technology. Today our Solace Messaging for PCF Tile is generally available as part of the Pivotal Network. The tile, which allows app developers to use Solace messaging in any Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployment, has been in Beta for several months. This release is ready for prime time, with enough features and fixes to support your favorite microservice or IoT use case.

The highlights of this release include:

  • High Availability: VMR HA is now provisioned for you in key plans to add robustness for your applications with the click of a button
  • More Plan Choices: We now have 5 distinct plans for developers to choose from depending on your needs – some on a shared VMR for development, some on your own dedicated VMR, with choices of performance/capacity and high availability.
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Shawn McAllister

Enabling Open Data Movement in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

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Everybody wants to take advantage of the cloud to save money, make their infrastructure more instantly scalable and make app teams more productive. To realize those benefits you need to be able share data between legacy applications deployed on-premise and new apps in the cloud. Many people expect this to be easy, and are surprised to learn that this application connectivity can become quite complex and difficult to achieve if you don’t start with a holistic strategy.

So how do you achieve hybrid and multi cloud application connectivity in a simple, robust and secure manner without losing the functionality your applications need? In this article I’ll explore a few options.

The Situation You Face

In order to create a single data movement fabric that allows you to deploy applications in any cloud, you need to cover three types of connectivity:

  1. Messaging within each cloud – between distributed applications or microservices in each target cloud
  2. Hybrid Cloud data movement – between your existing on-premise apps and your new cloud apps
  3. Cloud-to-cloud data movement – so applications running in different clouds can share information

Cloud Messaging

Most enterprises have in place some form of on-premise message bus like IBM MQ or JMS, which can be based on open source or provided by a vendor.… Read the rest

Shawn McAllister

Talking Cloud Data Movement with Pivotal

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Yesterday I joined the Pivotal Insights podcast to discuss with Jeff Kelly and Dormain Drewitz the challenges developers face when building data pipelines and message queues in Cloud-native environments. During the episode, called Taming Data Movement Complexity, I talked about some specific IoT cases and explained how to get enterprise data moving with Solace in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

I hope you’ll give it a listen to hear my thoughts on how Solace makes it easier to get messages moving in PCF.

Other Resources

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Dave McAllister

Solace and Docker: Multi-Cloud Messaging Containers

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From the dawn of (software) time, developers have been searching for the solution to software portability. The challenge of managing dependencies, from versioning to network topology to storage in a world of public and private clouds and legacy datacenters is mind-boggling. However, with the advent and acceptance of application containers, the world is closer to a solution that allows apps to be easily moved from one environment to another.

Today’s environments aren’t just a single staging ground or single deployment space. Increasingly, the production solution crosses multiple systems, clouds and datacenters. Sharing messages and data across those multiple environments is also challenging, which is why Solace has embraced open data movement.

That’s why we’re excited to announce today that our Solace Virtual Message Router (VMR) is now available as a Docker image. With this, the VMR can now run in Docker environments with other dockerized apps to combine the benefits of containers with those of the leading open data movement technology.… Read the rest

Paul Nash

Will New Financial Regs Make Hybrid Cloud Computing a Necessity?

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What better way to kick off 2017 than by analyzing some upcoming banking regulations, right? OK, that might not sound like your idea of a good time, but there’s at least one worth talking about. It’s so huge, so impactful and so fundamental to the financial services industry that it presents a unique opportunity to reconsider technology design in a way that unifies back- and front-office functions across.

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book, or FRTB, is due to hit in 2019 and its scope is so broad that many in the business jokingly refer to it as “Basel IV.” Not only that, but FRTB’s requirements are so explicit they will definitely influence technology strategy – which presents a unique opportunity because most banks are actively looking for ways to cut cost and complexity with clouds and virtualization.

Among other things, FRTB will require banks to report their actual risk relative to their stated risk appetite, which will hopefully eliminate the need for the kind of bailouts it took to square things away in 2008.… Read the rest