For point-in-time visibility, access and control over MQ processed critical business transactions and messages and to quickly isolate and handle tracking, auditing and regulatory compliance reporting and recovery requirements, Cressida offers a complete suite of Message Delivery Assurance and Governance solutions:

• ReQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ - a WMQ Recovery Logs Analyzer solution
• CeQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ - an MQ API Exit based Message Tracking solution

These products provide Point-in-Time Message Tracking, Message Reporting, Message Replay and Recovery, Charge-Back, Accounting, Compliance and Transactions Auditing solutions. ReQuest and CeQuest use advanced filtering technology to analyze critical message activity information already contained in the WMQ logs or available via the API Exit.

WebSphere MQ (WMQ) creates log files that allow you to recover queues when there has been a hardware or WMQ failure. Writing these logs is not cheap in terms of system resources, but there are a number of potential benefits to having these logs. Unfortunately WMQ does not allow us to capitalize on most of these benefits.

Messaging based middleware has come of age and is now used as the basis for both integration of legacy applications and for development of new applications using several design models. It has a great future. This is neither about “The Message” nor about “Messaging”. The focus is on a simple message somewhere in your computer network, perhaps one of millions. It could be insignificant, or it could mean a lot to your business. How do you know? It might not exist anymore, but what happened to it. Perhaps it doesn’t exist yet. If it does exist, where will it go?

A simple message could be quite critical to your business. It might be the receipt of a SWIFT transfer of funds by a financial institution from another SWIFT participant. Or it could be the transmission of a shipping order to a major supplier. However, the message might not arrive when it should. The message could exist somewhere in your computer network, perhaps one of millions. Or it might not exist anymore, having been already processed. Would you like to know how to quickly access and read the MQ message logs so you can ascertain what happened to a message in a matter of minutes rather than in a couple of hours? Do you know what path a message took or what queue manager it is currently on? Will you be able to prevent future delays?

The IBM Tivoliâ Monitoring V6.1 solution is the next generation of IBM Tivoli family of products that help monitor and manage critical hardware and software in distributed environments.

This Whitepaper Redbook focuses on the planning and deployment of IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 in small to medium and large environments. The target audience for this redbook is IT Specialists, who will be working on new IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 installations.

To ensure the high availability of mission-critical applications and optimize IT resources, many companies today are turning to formally defined processes and IBM Tivoli® availability management solutions. This White Paper helps show why that is.

Most IT managers have experienced the pain of the “domino effect” where multiple failures compound to create widespread angst across the company. This White Paper shows how IBM products can help address these issues.

This guide provides samples of the many preset reports you can generate showing critical configuration settings for change tracking, security assessments, regulatory compliance, and disaster recovery documentation.

Documentation is the key to proving an organization's compliance with HIPAA. Automated documentation of servers, with little human intervention, is an invaluable technology solution for the compliance requirements of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act.

Sarbanes-Oxley is one of the most complete American corporate anti-crime laws ever. It focuses on and proscribes a range of corporate misbehavior such as, altering financial statements, misleading auditors, and intimidating whistle blowers. It doles out harsh punishments and imposes fines and prison sentences for anyone who knowingly alters or destroys a record or document with the intent to obstruct an investigation.

Managing any aspect of the Federal Government is complex. Perhaps no part of running the country is as complex as the IT infrastructure. Today – just like their counterparts in commercial business – Agencies rely totally on IT. The IT infrastructure is an agencies most valuable asset, processing the bulk of governmental business transactions, and storing confidential information on all areas of the government, including financial data, human resource records, and email to name a few. Today most of this information is accessible online. And it's all vulnerable. It must be protected constantly and thoroughly without interrupting business.

This whitepaper outlines 25 Microsoft patches that you must have to prevent virus or worm disruption in your environment.

Reviewing the challenges, problems and solutions for patch management, we provide an outline of the six (6) steps to achieve Best Practices for your patch processes.

Speed, accuracy, and security in sending, receiving, and storing information are critical to business success. When information systems fail or become compromised due to a security breach, losses in time, money, and reputation can be disastrous. Despite this simple fact, many organizations do not have an effective maintenance plan in place to protect the assets they value so dearly: information and the systems that house it.

This paper outlines a methodology for improving enterprise security by simplifying the control process through configuration management and assessment.

The IT infrastructure is a corporation's most valuable asset, delivering competitive advantages, processing the bulk of business transactions, and storing confidential information on all areas of the company, including financial data, customer and supplier databases, engineering schedules, business plans, human resource records, and email. Today most of this information is accessible online. And it's all vulnerable. It must be protected constantly and thoroughly without interrupting business.

This paper examines how organizations can strengthen security "inside the perimeter" by developing security templates, establishing performance baselines with an automated solution, and initiating a "Cycle of Control" to enforce compliance.

Recovering from a disaster requires comprehensive planning, teamwork, and execution. Yet a crucial component is often overlooked. This paper exposes the weakest link in disaster recovery and provides steps to forge an unbreakable chain to reactivate any IT infrastructure.

IT complexity is increasing, yet budgets are being slashed, and clients are scrutinizing their expenditures even more closely -- while actually boosting their expectations of solution providers. This paper shows how Ecora can help solution providers deliver more services in less time in this increasingly competitive and pressured environment.