Systems/Enterprise:
PeerDirect ANNOUNCES NATIVE
LINUX/GRID SUPPORT
For the first time, organizations can deploy 100 percent Linux Grid
Distributed Database Applications, resulting in significant cost Savings and
radically improved application quality of service.
PeerDirect Corporation, an operating company of Progress Software
Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), today announced that its flagship product suite,
PeerDirect(TM) Distributed Enterprise, now provides native support for Linux.
As a result, companies can cost-effectively decentralize and distribute
database-driven business applications to thousands of locations across the
enterprise using Linux-based application servers and databases.
The PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise suite lets companies decentralize
their business applications by automatically and bi-directionally
synchronizing, distributing and replicating corporate data and applications
across multiple locations, desktops and mobile devices, while providing
centralized tools for easy administration. By distributing applications in
this way, companies can eliminate the latency and outages associated with
traditional centralized application deployment, while radically improving
employee productivity by ensuring that vital applications and data are always
available to them, whether they are online or offline.
With native Linux support, PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise now lets
companies keep deployment costs to a minimum because they can use a pure Linux
infrastructure with popular open source databases and application servers.
"Running PeerDirect on Linux servers is an ideal distributed application
solution for TeamShare because we can ensure that critical business
information is consistently available to the people who need it most, at a
cost that is substantially lower than it would be if we were using non-Linux
servers for remote deployment," said Greg Burnell, chief operating officer at
TeamShare, a leader in enterprise solutions for software development and
product lifecycle management. "With PeerDirect, we can take advantage of the
benefits of decentralization without relinquishing control or threatening the
integrity of our data. The addition of native Linux support means PeerDirect
delivers a huge return on investment by enabling a true distributed
application architecture across a low-cost Linux infrastructure."
Deployed by customers in industries as diverse as retail and aircraft
maintenance, PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise is based on patented technology
that allows automatic bi-directional data synchronization between any
combination of databases, including products from Oracle, Microsoft, Progress,
IBM, Sybase and Informix, as well as the PostgreSQL open source database. This
support for heterogeneous database environments means that companies can
choose Linux as their remote deployment platform, even if they are running
Windows or UNIX in their data centers.
"With native Linux support, PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise now
eliminates both the technical and financial hurdles to deploying decentralized
business applications," said Lorne Cooper, president of PeerDirect. "Now,
companies can justify mass deployments of this type of technology. Companies
are able to deliver vastly improved performance, availability and
functionality to distributed offices and remote workers across a low-cost
Linux infrastructure."
About PeerDirect Corporation
PeerDirect Corporation is a supplier of advanced, patented technology for
distributed application deployment and management. The company's flagship
product suite, PeerDirect Grid Distributed Enterprise, allows companies to
centrally manage distributed applications with fully synchronized databases
deployed across widely distributed locations. PeerDirect Distributed
Enterprise accomplishes this with a core technology that replicates,
distributes and synchronizes data and application components across multiple
locations, giving customers more responsive and reliable applications with
less dependency on network connectivity to a central data center.
Based in Bedford, Mass. with additional development operations in Toronto,
Canada, PeerDirect Corporation is an operating company of Progress Software
Corporation and provides customers with a comprehensive range of enterprise
technical support, consulting and training for PeerDirect products.
http://www.peerdirect.com
About Progress Software Corporation
Founded in 1981, Progress Software Corporation, or PSC (Nasdaq: PRGS) is
the parent organization for the Progress Company operating unit, Sonic
Software Corporation, NuSphere Corporation and PeerDirect Corporation. PSC
provides industry-leading technologies for all aspects of e-business
development, deployment, integration and management. Progress Software
Corporation is headquartered in Bedford, MA.
http://www.progress.com
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