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EMQ Releases EMQX Enterprise 5.8.0: Elevating Data Reliability for Global Enterprises

Sep 6, 2024
EMQ Releases EMQX Enterprise 5.8.0: Elevating Data Reliability for Global Enterprises

Morgan Hill, CA, September 6, 2024 – EMQ, a global leader in cloud-edge connectivity and data solutions, is excited to announce the release of EMQX Enterprise 5.8.0.

The latest version of EMQX Enterprise features major updates improving the reliability and flexibility of data solutions for global enterprises. With the new cluster linking functionality, businesses can achieve robust disaster recovery, ensuring smooth operations across global deployments. EMQX Enterprise 5.8 also introduces message transformation and expanded data integration support. The release also offers security enhancements like Kerberos Auth and OIDC SSO support to strengthen the platform.

Key Features of EMQX Enterprise 5.8.0:

  • Cluster Linking: Connects multiple EMQX clusters across different regions for global business operations. It offers a unified namespace across connected clusters, intelligent message routing, and efficient disaster recovery. The feature ensures uninterrupted communication across the world, reducing network and processing resources by minimizing unnecessary message replication.
  • Message Transformation: Allows users to add customized rules on messages (e.g., adding data fields, converting data formats, and other advanced data transformations) before delivering the data to subscribers, enabling more flexible data processing.
  • Enhanced Security:
    • Kerberos Authentication: Adding support for the widely used network authentication protocol, ensuring secure and authenticated communication between parties in a network.
    • OIDC SSO (OpenID Connect Single Sign-On): Supporting Single Sign-On for the EMQX Dashboard via OpenID Connect.
    • Enhanced HTTP Authentication: Using ACL rules, users can add control over what actions clients/devices can take, such as publishing or subscribing to certain topics.
  • Expanded Data Integration: Adding data integration support for Azure Blob Storage (cloud storage service), Couchbase (NoSQL cloud database), and Datalayers (multimodal distributed database), enabling efficient data handling for large-scale and edge-cloud systems.
  • Hotfix Upgrades: Ensures seamless, fast upgrades without interrupting MQTT connections, minimizing operational disruptions during version upgrades.

For a comprehensive overview of the new features, please visit the EMQX Enterprise 5.8 release notes.

About EMQ

EMQ is a global leader in providing cloud-edge connectivity and MQTT platform solutions. EMQ facilitates data collection, transmission, transformation, storage, analysis, and control between physical devices and digital systems with its high-performance EMQX Platform and other software solutions. EMQ helps businesses tackle data challenges across various scenarios, such as connected vehicles, smart factories, smart buildings, retail, robotics, drones, maritime shipping, and large-scale distributed energy device networks (including renewable energy grids, distributed energy storage, transmission and distribution power grids, and gas and water networks).

Founded in 2017, EMQ's flagship product, EMQX Platform, serves nearly 1,000 enterprise customers in over 60 countries, connecting more than 250 million smart devices worldwide.

To learn more about EMQ's data and MQTT solutions and their potential applications in IoT projects, please visit EMQ's website, or contact the EMQ team directly at Contact Us.

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