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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 30, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 26
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
DataSynapse Releases Grid Solution
To Power Web Services
DataSynapse, Inc. announced the general availability of GridServer 3.2, the
latest release of its grid computing infrastructure software; a number of new
customers using it to deploy enterprise grids in production; and its winning
several industry awards. The next generation of LiveCluster, GridServer is the
first product to host web services and applications requiring scale on a grid
environment in production, capable of servicing high throughput or compute-
intensive requests.
DataSynapse's software provides a resilient, scalable platform to host
services and applications over a grid of commodity processors, performing
thousands of web service requests in parallel. With its standards-based
approach, GridServer commoditizes IT infrastructure costs so organizations can
deploy, manage and operate business applications' workloads and web services
in a virtual, heterogeneous operating environment.
Taking advantage of these benefits, a number of leading institutions have
recently licensed GridServer to "grid enable" their key enterprise
applications. These include institutions such as GE Financial Assurance, CIBC,
a top five U.S. banking and diversified financial services company, as well as
one of the largest global multi-service human resource providers.
GridServer's quantifiable benefits have been validated again by winning two
Financial Times/The Banker awards: for "Risk Management Solution of the Year"
and "Business ROI of the Year."
"IBM is working with DataSynapse to help organizations integrate service-
oriented capabilities into their operating infrastructure," said IBM's Dan
Powers, vice president, Grid strategy. "DataSynapse's GridServer is designed
to provide businesses with the ability to address scale, capacity and
resiliency requirements across their infrastructures built to open standards.
The software's architecture and implementation embraces open grid standards
architecture such as OGSA, bringing together grid computing and web services
in a single integrated operating framework."
"Intel sees DataSynapse's GridServer solution helping to accelerate the
adoption of grid computing environments in the enterprise, thus enabling lower
total cost of ownership and increasing application performance, scalability
and resiliency, while better utilizing overall IT infrastructure. GridServer
decouples applications from proprietary architectures and allows them to
achieve the volume economics of open-standard computing environments," said
Robert Fogel, director of grid initiatives, Intel. "Deploying scalable web
services on high performance Intel-based systems with GridServer is a very
compelling alternative to traditional approaches."
GridServer builds on its predecessor product's application performance,
reliability and scalability benefits by expanding its application-based
functionality to enable on-demand, service-oriented architectures. Web
services may now be hosted on a distributed, grid environment capable of
servicing high throughput or compute-intensive service requests. A single web
services client is capable of making thousands of parallel, asynchronous web
services calls to GridServer.
"GridServer dramatically broadens the scope of applications and services
that
can now benefit from grid computing, said Frank Cicio, COO, DataSynapse.
"Whether firms are running legacy applications or next generation web
services, they can virtualize their environment with GridServer to efficiently
manage their workload across business units, over all their resources, from
mainframes to desktops."
GridServer provides new approaches that make it possible to integrate
applications and services without any references to proprietary interfaces,
simply by capitalizing on the WSDL (Web Services Definition Language) web
standard. It provides a grid hosting environment for and interoperability
between all Java and .NET web services.
DataSynapse's technology is the only grid technology to address the issues
facing real-time applications -- service based processing, low-latency/high
throughput, state management, guaranteed messaging and autonomic services.
The GridServer software provides a hosting environment for servicing
applications in a distributed operating environment, while providing a web
services standards-based interface. It drives commoditization of
infrastructure costs, while providing critical functionality, such as:
- Enabling applications to be decoupled from dedicated servers and
automatically migrate to the best suited resource at run-time, driving
performance and reducing costs;
- Leveraging and optimizing an organization's available resources, including
sharing application workload between centralized hosts and distributed
computing resources as well as across lines of business; and
- Increasing application resiliency, performance and/or scalability.
GridServer supports interoperability and support of commodity hardware and
software components including Intel Architecture and open source operating
environments such as Linux and Globus Tool Kit Version 3.0 (GT3).
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