Enterprise Class Message Queuing

All companies use a range of computer systems, which work together to enable the organisation to go about its business. Well, that’s the theory. In reality things are more complicated. Most companies depend on a combination of legacy systems and other, newer applications supporting a specific business requirement. Success will depend on the ability of these ‘distributed’ IT elements to ‘interoperate’ efficiently.

But do they? To perform properly in a distributed systems environment, computers need to be able to ‘talk’ to each other. Message Queuing (MQ) technology is an accepted mechanism to achieve this, enabling large amounts of data to be moved effectively and securely between multiple computers; without overloading a server.

The problem? Message Queuing technology has previously been out of reach for most, due to the high cost of implementation and ongoing support.

The main Message Queue vendors have specialised in massive installations in limited sectors. Proprietary, expensive and complex, they have been little adopted outside the largest of companies.

More recently, however, with the advent of the AMQP open standard has seen a new breed of suppliers providing 'open source' software (i.e. free software). That's great and it has certainly made Message Queuing technology available to more organisations, however there are still significant costs involved in implementation, configuration, hardware acquisition and on going management and support of such open source Message Queue solutions.

With StormMQ our services can be simply turned on and off much like any other utility. This allows development departments to focus on delivering businesss applications that provide a true competitve edge while knowing the Message Queuing infrastructure is stable, secure and reliable and importantly totally managed to meet stringent service level agreements.