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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
GemFire Suite, Version 2.2
Features Increased Performance
GemStone Systems announced the general availability of the GemFire Suite,
version 2.2, a leading high performance data services solution. GemFire is a
flexible, high performance, cross-platform and cost-effective solution for
data distribution, caching and management across the enterprise in real-time.
The 2.2 release adds significant new features that continue to increase
efficiency and scalability of mission critical enterprise applications, as
well as performance improvements.
"The GemFire product is continually improved upon to address the needs of
our
customers", said Raj Kulkarni, chief technology officer at GemStone. "The
features that have been added to the GemFire Suite, version 2.2, provide
increased scalability and performance results for financial services companies
that utilize a virtualized data layer for quick decision making. The faster
the data can be accessed and distributed, the faster decisions can be made,
resulting in larger revenue margins for Wall Street firms."
GemFire Version 2.2: Enhanced Scalability And Performance
The GemFire solution delivers high performance data distribution and data
management benefits and reduces system costs, a top concern for chief
architects. GemFire's pervasive interoperability improves the utilization of
an enterprise's infrastructure, diminishes development time costs and makes
many large technology investments, such as additional hardware, databases and
storage, unnecessary.
The GemFire Suite, Version 2.2, features new additions, including dynamic
hierarchical caching and support for C/C++ as well as Java processes in the
distributed cache. The hierarchical cache configuration directly supports a
GemStone customer pilot architecture, in which this leading financial services
company needed to distribute real time data that resides in database servers
to a high volume of service machines, each servicing a large number of client
machines. The overall impact of this architecture change will significantly
cut down the traffic to the database servers and on the network, provide
better performance consistently and increase database scalability.
A new API has also been introduced providing native cache access to "C"
applications. This enhancement now allows C applications to seamlessly share
data at high speeds across processes and machine boundaries. GemFire 2.2
manages data in a format that allows for easy interoperability with Java. The
use of Java for data services is extremely beneficial as enterprises may
manage data via multiple channels, such as through Web services standards to
access data as XML. The result for an enterprise is increased scalability as
users are able to share data concurrently without over-extending the
system.
"There is an unprecedented focus on efficient data management in the
securities industry right now, and strong demand for products that remove
bottlenecks in data acquisition, management and delivery," said Dushyant
Shahrawat, senior analyst at TowerGroup. "Financial firms are constantly
evaluating ways to improve data management without considerable restructuring
of their current IT environment. Products that can be easily implemented into
an institution's existing infrastructure, and quickly allow an organization to
not only access data in the system but also distribute it across geographic
boundaries in real-time, have a bright future."
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