Operational Technology (OT) has traditionally relied on legacy middleware to connect industrial systems, manage data flows, and integrate with enterprise IT. However, these monolithic, proprietary, and expensive middleware solutions struggle to keep up with real-time, scalable, and cloud-native architectures.
Just as mainframe offloading modernized enterprise IT, offloading and replacing legacy OT middleware is the next wave of digital transformation. Companies are shifting from vendor-locked, heavyweight OT middleware to real-time, event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink, enabling cost efficiency, agility, and seamless edge-to-cloud integration.
