Scientific Applications:
GemFire MANAGES DATA FOR GRID AND
STP INFRASTRUCTURE
GemStone Systems announced the new GemFire Suite, live data grid
distribution and management software that optimizes data in motion across the
hardware and software boundaries of your enterprise. GemFire's pervasive
interoperability improves the utilization and performance of your enterprise's
information systems, reducing costs, accelerating business processes, and
allowing your entire company to do more with less.
"We understand that organizations are faced with the urgent need to reduce
the cost of ownership, and still increase performance and efficiencies in
operations from their existing systems and infrastructure," said Richard Lamb,
president, GemStone Systems. "GemFire technology is designed for businesses to
reap the benefits from being able to rely on consistent, live data that is
accessible, transparently shared and available in real-time. This enables
organizations to grow their business, incorporate flexibility with changing
market conditions, and further benefit from low costs of technology
infrastructure."
The GemFire Suite from GemStone
The GemFire Suite from GemStone is comprised of three core products:
- GemFire for SMP
- GemFire for Blades and Distributed GemFire
- The GemFire XML Integration Module is an add-on component of the GemFire
Suite and is available for each of these three systems.
GemStone GemFire for SMP is designed for a symmetrical multi-processing
environment. GemFire for SMP enables collocated applications on SMP machines
to share objects and live data, so they run orders of magnitude faster than
traditional technology and accelerate your business processes. It enables
systems to interoperate across multiple processors, Java Virtual Machines,
programming languages and applications.
The core functionality of GemFire SMP can be used at the heart of high-
speed, single-machine applications like trading engines and market data
systems. GemFire provides thread synchronization across virtual machine
process boundaries and extends Java capabilities for business benefits.
GemStone GemFire for Blades provides high performance data virtualization
for flexible, low-cost blade environments. As enterprises are rapidly
deploying blade servers as a highly efficient and cost-effective
infrastructure, GemFire for Blades extends the capabilities by providing data
virtualization that allows collections of objects to be transparently shared
across cluster environments.
Blade servers are architected to provide performance and density, but
currently lack support for distributed, shared-memory based caching across the
blades in a cluster. As a result, blade servers excel at stateless
applications, which do not share application data or state at the speed of
memory across process or blade boundaries. However, as an application's data
intensity increases, issues of state management and data sharing across blades
introduce internode latencies that dramatically slow data access and thereby
application performance.
The GemFire for Blades software solves this problem by empowering a
collection of blade servers with a distributed, shared-memory based cache, a
data backplane managed as a single system image of the entire cluster. This
global data virtualization scheme allows any application running on any blade
to access relevant application data at the speed of memory without regard to
where the data actually resides, thereby providing the ability to process even
the most demanding stateful applications.
GemStone Distributed GemFire is a distributed, shared-memory based solution
that integrates data from multiple sources in real-time, serving that data at
high speed from automatically synchronized copies near the data consumers.
Distributed GemFire creates a true virtualization environment that
transparently combines all resources -- SMP nodes, tightly connected clusters,
and remote data centers -- into a single system image that enables
connectivity between business processes and unrestrained application access to
distributed caching. The net result is that all users have instant access to
these data resources across a distributed network.
At WAN (wide-area network) distances between data centers, Distributed
GemFire offers efficient replication, immediate updates or invalidation's, and
high volume data transfer. Based on the JSR-107 (JCache) caching standard,
Distributed GemFire provides policy based, declarative data integration on an
Internet scale, providing data centers with disaster recovery and remote
system monitoring analysis capabilities.
The GemFire XML Integration Module adds XML, Web services and HTTP
capabilities to all GemFire suite products and to all applications using
GemFire systems. The module enables aggregation of live data from many sources
into an ultra high performance XML cache, optimizes it, transforms it, makes
it available for manipulation and retrieval by applications, and proactively
delivers the live data to applications across multiple processes/Virtual
Machines and multiple nodes. GemFire XML also reduces hardware and networking
costs for enterprise-scale distributed, integrated XML applications.
GemFire for Industry Specific Solutions
The GemFire Suite from GemStone is a data distribution management software
solution that provides tangible benefits to industry markets that rely on live
and consistent data, such as financial services, telecommunications and the
retail sector. The GemFire solution solves data integration issues by creating
a high-speed data grid that can service all lines of business in real time. A
crucial need for users within a financial services organization is the ability
to access synchronized data that is always current.
At the core of any financial transaction is a set of interdependent
processes that must share and reconcile information rapidly in a distributed
environment. Too much data in many different formats, however, can drastically
reduce the effectiveness of a traditional financial system architecture.
Speed, performance, accuracy and timeliness of data are critical components at
any financial institution. GemFire provides an ideal medium for those
processes in the financial services sector by providing one common format to
access, view and manage these resources in real-time.
"In Financial Services, securities firms today are expected to do more with
less," said Larry Tabb, Senior Strategy Advisor, TowerGroup. "The ability to
improve performance and reduce cost of ownership of their existing
infrastructure and business processes is greatly enhanced by having accurate,
reliable, and consistent information that can be accessed and shared across
multiple sources at in-memory speeds."
The financial services industry shares data and communicate events at high
speeds to benefit the users matching trades, tracking market changes,
calculating risk, pricing portfolios and resolving settlement issues.
GemFire's extreme scalability and short, predictable response times in a
distributed environment make it the ideal answer for firms struggling to meet
real-time processing requirements within tight budgetary and staffing
constraints.
Availability
GemFire for SMP and the GemFire XML Integration Module are available today.
GemFire Distributed will be available mid-February 2003. GemFire for Blades
will be available in Q2, 2003.
About GemStone Systems Inc
GemStone Systems is a privately held company with over 20 years of software
experience in developing high performance object oriented technology and
highly scalable systems for enterprise organizations. GemStone's patented
technology delivers the speed, performance and capabilities that enterprises
need from the hardware and software they already own.
Industry leading global organizations like Intercontinental Exchange Inc,
JPMorgan Chase, UBS Warburg, BellSouth Telecommunications, eBucks and Orient
Overseas Container Line depend on GemStone technology and expertise to build
scalable, mission-critical applications that have set the standard in their
industries, and given them the competitive edge to be increasingly
profitable.
Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, GemStone sells and supports its
solutions through its US sales force and a worldwide network of
distributors.
http://www.gemstone.com
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