IBM MQ environments are expanded to provide the mission-critical communication across  this hybrid multicloud environment. Messaging is traditionally administered by dedicated teams within IT. “As-a-service” delivery  lets enterprises create self-service portals that enable line of business (LOB) or individual  users to request changes to the messaging infrastructure independently. For example, they  can create or delete queues or provision new resources for applications. Implementing MQ as a service can enable enterprises to increase agility and efficiency, since  resource provisioning can be accomplished faster and more dynamically. It can also improve  usability and internal consistency. Messaging middleware naturally works well within  serverless or microservices architectures common in cloud-native development. It’s also  being offered in a cloud-hosted service model. In this model, your MQ handles all the  provisioning, installation, and maintenance of your messaging infrastructure, and is hosted in  the cloud (for example IBM and AWS clouds). To discover more about mastering IBM MQ, go to the Learn MQ site here:  https://developer.ibm.com/messaging/learn-mq/ Figure 5-3 IBM MQ Multi-Cloud for mission-critical communication 5.7 Event Streaming: IBM Event Streams 160  Accelerating Modernization with Agile Integration IBM Cloud Pak for Integration includes Apache Kafka as the event streaming capability. IBM  builds on the open source technology and enhances the ease of use to be truly ready for  enterprise deployments. This is provided on public and private cloud environments to meet  the needs of clients. IBM was the first supplier of a managed Apache Kafka offering in 2015  on the IBM Cloud. IBM Event Streams on IBM Cloud provides both multi-tenant and single  tenant options, and this experience of running a managed service has been rolled into our  on-premises private cloud offering. This capability is also sold separately as IBM Event  Streams. In either model, it can run on-premise as a fully containerized offering, allowing the  deployment to benefit from cloud-native best practices such as easy installation,  management, and scaling of the solution. Out-of-the-box high-availability is pre-configured,  so you can replicate streams across the globe for disaster recovery, thereby satisfying the  requirements for mission-critical use.