IBM MQ and IBM MQ Advanced (software)

Overview

IBM MQ is trusted by thousands of enterprises around the world to deliver billions of messages, representing trillions of dollars of business value, exactly once, every day. An IBM MQ network is typically composed of applications written in many languages, running on many platforms across a wide variety of data centres and multiple clouds.

Benefits - IBM MQ:

Helps business adapt to change - applications are de-coupled so that they can be changed independently of each other.

Helps Developers and ITOps to be more productive - further simplifying the development of integrations and management of the queue network in each product release.

Enables business agility by supporting the automation of application and integration operations with support for containers (Kubernetes and OpenShift) and advanced telemetry (OpenTelemetry).

Accelerates hybrid cloud for applications and infrastructure modernization projects by offering BYOL support for AWS and other hyperscalers as well as SaaS and the widest variety of on-prem deployment models from appliances, windows and UNIX servers and Z/OS.

Provides support for multiple messaging and integration architectures: point to point messaging with Store & Forward and Request & Response patterns, as well as Publish and Subscribe with dynamic topics and subscriptions. IBM MQ plays an important role as a transport and event source in many Kafka-based Event Driven Architectures.

Delivers business resilience. Across platforms IBM provides intelligence workload balancing, high availability and disaster recovery services from an individual node, right up to availability zone and regional levels.

Secures messages at rest and during transportation across the network, including end-to-end encryption and data confidentiality and integrity checking.

Highlights

• Note that this page is for a software product and not a SaaS offering, and purchasing this entitlement on AWS is purchasing entitlement to the IBM MQ or MQ Advanced software only. Details for how to deploy IBM MQ software on AWS are provided. IBM MQ is available in 2 editions to suit the needs of your business.

• IBM MQ is the standard offering providing the essential capabilities you need to securely and reliably connect applications, enable insights into events, and empower teams to innovate and deliver outstanding customer experiences.

• IBM MQ Advanced provides everything that is available in the standard offering plus additional capabilities providing state of the art data resiliency, broader connectivity options, and advanced security for end to end encryption and audit compliance. To upgrade from IBM MQ to IBM MQ Advanced, please contact us at AskMessaging@uk.ibm.com