Reason 10: Commitment to Innovation

Posted by on Apr 26, 2011

This is part 10 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. A lot has changed since the most common software messaging protocols gained their foothold 20 years ago, and there’s only so much incremental improvement you can squeeze out of a...
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Reason 9: Solace lets applications "Think & Act Globally"

Posted by on Mar 22, 2011

This is part 9 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. There’s a well-known environmental adage “Think Globally, Act Locally”. The idea is that while you can’t save the world by yourself, making changes close to home can make a...
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Reason 8: Guaranteed messaging fit for the 21st century

Posted by on Mar 11, 2011

This is part 8 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. For over two decades, messaging middleware has been transporting information between distributed applications so they don’t need to be directly connected. Over the years though,...
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Reason 7: Content and location routing in real-time

Posted by on Mar 7, 2011

This is part 7 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. As we often do, we start this entry with a metaphor… Five years ago, there were two distinct ways to consume entertainment and educational content: TV and the Internet, and...
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Reason 6: Appliances remove the operational blindfold

Posted by on Feb 25, 2011

This is part 6 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. One of the least appreciated jobs in IT is that of the operations team that keeps vital systems running. They inherit applications, figure out how to keep them running, scale them...
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Reason 5: Infrastructure and application consolidation

Posted by on Feb 23, 2011

This is part 5 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. Five or ten years ago it was relatively easy to figure out messaging middleware requirements. If you needed messaging between data-oriented applications, you would (most likely) buy...
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Reason 4: Messaging appliances rack up assists like Wayne Gretzky

Posted by on Feb 17, 2011

This is part 4 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. When it comes to offensive prowess in sports, Wayne Gretzky is the gold standard. From his earliest years he was a scoring machine, famously scoring 378 goals in a season at the age of...
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Reason 3: Appliances deliver huge performance gains

Posted by on Feb 15, 2011

This is part 3 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. So far I’ve talked about saving money and making life easier. The third leg in the stool of commonly recognized advantages of appliances is higher performance. There is no one...
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Reason 2: Appliances make their lives easier

Posted by on Feb 10, 2011

This is part 2 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. One of our customers once told us that they judge everything they do against the “Hedgehog Concept”, an insight borrowed from the book Good to Great by Jim Collins. which says...
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Reason 1: Appliances save them money

Posted by on Feb 9, 2011

This is part 1 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. Messaging middleware isn’t just another widget in corporate IT’s toolbox, it becomes the backbone of data flow between applications and users across the enterprise. And no...
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