IBM MQ Appliance

A secure and reliable messaging solution for fast and cost-effective integration

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Reduce costs and simplify your estate

IBM MQ solutions are used by thousands of enterprises worldwide to be confident their business data is protected and will reliably arrive in the right place at the right time.

The latest evolution of the IBM MQ Appliance is here, supporting business growth with data availability and integrity, and with simplicity at its core.

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Benefits
Simple setup

IBM MQ firmware is pre-installed on dedicated, secured hardware so your teams can get started rapidly.
Maximized performance

Handle even the most demanding high-volume workloads with greater processor power, faster storage and increased networking capacity.
Business resiliency

Easily create a highly available, resilient architecture for continued access to message data in the event of outages.
Reduced costs

Save on hardware and maintenance costs by simplifying your estate and eliminating time spent installing, patching and maintaining complex, multi-stack environments.
Data insights without interruption

Harness mission-critical data as it flows through your enterprise with streaming queues to seamlessly power analytics and AI.
Protection against threats

Encrypt highly sensitive and valuable business data at all stages of its journey without writing complex code or modifying applications.
Features Powerful messaging

Connect diverse systems with support for message queuing, events or PubSub, and making transactions.

 Assured delivery

Unlike its competitors, IBM MQ will never lose a message or deliver a message more than once.

 Market-leading messaging, everywhere

Get the same proven, security-rich, high-performance messaging solution, however and wherever you deploy.

 Resilient operations

Automated and intelligent workload balancing lets you design applications for scale.

 Freedom to develop

Use broad language, API and messaging protocol support (including AMQP) and simple management tools.

 24x7x365 technical support

A dedicated IBM MQ team is available to help you, along with a large user community.

Specifications

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M2004M2003
2 x 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y processors (8 cores active in B model), 2.80 GHz, Hyperthreading enabled2 x 16-core Intel Xeon Gold 6326 processors (8 cores active in B model), 2.90 GHz, Hyperthreading enabled
256 GB RAM, 16 x 16 GB DDR5 DIMMs256 GB RAM, 16 x 16 GB DDR4 DIMMs
2 x Management 1 Gb Ethernet ports2 x Management 1 Gb Ethernet ports (one supporting IPMI)
8 x 1 Gb Ethernet ports8 x 1 Gb Ethernet ports
4 x 10 Gb Ethernet ports4 x 10 Gb Ethernet ports
2 x 40 Gb Ethernet ports4 x 40 Gb Ethernet ports
4 x 100 Gb Ethernet ports2 x 100 Gb Ethernet ports
4 x 3.2 TB NVMe SSDs under hardware controlled mirrored RAID (6 TB effective, 3 TB effective B model)4 x 3.2 TB NVMe SSDs under hardware controlled mirrored RAID (6 TB effective, 3 TB effective B model)
Case studies
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Grocery retailer

A grocery retailer effortlessly transfers 50 million messages across the country every day.

 See Grocery Retailer's case
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The Professional Provident Society

The client had an 80% drop in remedial actions as a result of audits and 90% of system code was eliminated with IBM MQ Advanced.

 See The PPS's case
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The Bank of New York Mellon

BNY Mellon uses IBM MQ to ensure that highly-sensitive, transactional data is delivered every time.

 See BNY Mellon's case

Deployment options to fit your needs

Deploy MQ wherever your applications and data reside, whether in public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises environments with advanced resilience features such as Native High Availability (HA) and Cross Region Replication (CRR) support business continuity with zero data loss and rapid failover.
MQ Advanced MQ Appliance MQ for z/OS MQ SaaS
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Speak with an IBM expert to configure the best fit for you and see how your organization can benefit from the IBM MQ Appliance.

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