Systems/Enterprise:
TSUNAMI RESEARCH SHIPS HIVECREATOR
GRID COMPUTING
SOLUTION
New software product delivers extraordinary levels
of reliability
at a fraction of the cost of existing mission critical
computing solutions.
Tsunami Research announced that it is now
shipping version 1.0 of HiveCreator.
HiveCreator is a software toolkit that
businesses and other organizations can
use to enable large numbers of
dedicated, commodity computers to form a
mission critical computing
environment called a Hive.
HiveCreator enables businesses and other
organizations to both increase the
reliability of mission critical
applications and realize order of magnitude
reductions in the cost of
developing, deploying, and managing such
applications.
"When it comes
to mission critical computing, businesses and other
organizations are forced
to trade off two equally important factors:
reliability and affordability.
Existing solutions like fault tolerant
computers are reliable but are hardware
or operating system based and thus are
extremely expensive. Commodity
computers are affordable but are not reliable
enough to do important work,"
said Bob Lozano, CEO of Tsunami Research.
HiveCreator eliminates the
need for such tradeoffs. A Hive combines the
reliability of a fault tolerant
computer and the affordability of a commodity
computer. HiveCreator will
enable organizations to achieve a 90% reduction in
the acquisition cost, and a
50% reduction in the development and operational
costs, of mission critical
computing solutions.
Hive Computing is able to deliver on this
promise
because it is based on three
very different assumptions:
- First,
a Hive assumes the application is all that matters. A Hive forms an
application fabric that allows developers and administrators to focus on the
task at hand, not the complexities of the physical environment.
- Second, just as TCP/IP assumes networks will fail, a Hive assumes
computers will fail. A Hive possesses a Collective Intelligence that allows it
to deal with failure, not fear it.
- Third, a Hive assumes
computers are disposable. Its self-organizing, self-
managing, and self-healing capabilities make it practical to build a Hive from
inexpensive, PC-grade components.
"Many startups are taking
advantage of the growing
capabilities and falling
costs of commodity computers to build less expensive
supercomputers," said
John Shepard, CEO of Shepard Group International, a
Tsunami Research Business
Partner. "What excites us about what Tsunami
Research is doing is that
HiveCreator is the first solution to target the much
larger market for fault
tolerant and other mission critical computing
solutions. We believe
HiveCreator will revolutionize and grow the mission
critical computing market
by making reliability affordable."
A Hive is
ideally suited to deploying transaction-oriented and other mission
critical
applications. This includes trading systems and other financial
service
applications; homeland defense, law enforcement, and military
applications;
and any application which demands extraordinarily high levels of
reliability.
"Transaction-oriented applications are the bread and
butter of a business,"
said Ahmar Abbas, managing director of Grid Technology
Partners, a market
research and consulting firm.
"By breaking through
to new levels of application reliability, Hive Computing
delivers a
cost-effective infrastructure that businesses can trust for their
most
critical applications."
HiveCreator is available today through a
national network of Tsunami Research
Business Partners and is aggressively
priced. HiveCreator will cost less than
what most companies are paying just to
maintain their existing mission
critical computing solutions.
A
special HiveCreator Evaluation Edition will be available on the company's
website in the next few weeks. This version has a 90-day license key and will
allow the user to create a 3-Worker Hive. The HiveCreator API supports Java,
C/C++ for Windows, and C/C++ for UNIX.
HiveCreator is platform agile
and can be deployed on Windows 2000, Windows XP,
and FreeBSD 4.7. A version of
HiveCreator for Linux will be available in the
next few weeks. HiveCreator is
designed to be deployed on dedicated, commodity
computers that have a Pentium
or Athlon class processor, 256 MB RAM, a 5 GB
hard drive, and an Ethernet
card. Tsunami Research Inc is a software company
pioneering Hive Computing, a
revolutionary approach to the development,
deployment, and management of
transaction-oriented and other mission critical
applications.
The core
team, led by CEO Bob Lozano, previously founded PaylinX Corporation,
makers of
an enterprise payment processing engine for handling credit card and
other
transactions. PaylinX was acquired by CyberSource in 2000 in a deal
valued at
more than $130M.
Tsunami Research was recently featured in the January
2003 issue of IEEE
Spectrum magazine.
http://www.tsunamiresearch.com
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