This document provides vendor strategists with an overview of application-to-application ultra high performance messaging and market opportunities in Asia Pacific with a special focus on the market opportunity for hardware-based ultra low latency messaging appliances in the region. The analysis is based on tracking of the major trends and developments in the Asia Pacific IT markets especially in manufacturing, telecommunications, and financial services verticals, as well as the interviews with CIOs and executives in regional companies and leading IT vendors. The document provides an overview of solutions vendors including IBM, Real-Time Innovations, Solace Systems, Tervela, Tibco Software, and 29West.