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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Confluent Announces Next
Generation Web Services Platform
Building on its tradition of pioneering Web Services solutions, Confluent
Software Inc announced availability, by the end of December, of its next
generation Web Services Management Platform. For the first time, decentralized
IT organizations will be able to effectively enforce security and Quality of
Service best practices across large numbers of XML Web services, owned and
developed by different departments or partners, and deployed on heterogeneous
platforms and transport protocols.
"The addition of cross-platform policy enforcement features extends the
scope
of Confluent's product offering in Web services management. It targets the
growing requirement for organizations to control and enforce policies for a
highly-distributed services environment across the entire enterprise," said
Sandra Rogers, director of Web services and integration software research at
IDC.
With Confluent developers, system architects and operations staff can now
collaborate in designing operational best practices and leverage the Confluent
solution to enforce them across the extended enterprise. For example,
enterprise security architects are now able to define security policies, which
can then be commonly enforced across the entire service network, while order
fulfillment application owners retain the autonomy to define and enforce
operational polices for their specific best practice compliance needs.
Confluent customers can be reassured that their application interactions
will
comply with their operational best practices, even when they opt for a phased
approach to the deployment of service-oriented architectures in order to
leverage their existing IT investments. Whether communications among
applications occur through standards-compliant Web services or through XML
messages transported over JMS and MQ, Confluent run-time enforcement
components intercept all service requests and ensure the right operational
policies are applied, before any application interaction occurs.
Because efficiency, flexibility and reliability are key to successful IT
operations, powerful new enhancements to Confluent's offerings will also allow
IT managers to migrate Confluent run-time enforcement components together with
the applications they control, when these are moved from the development
environment to staging, and finally to production. This greatly reduces the
cost and complexity of maintaining control of distributed mission-critical
application environments. Multiple versions of the same operational policies
will be able to coexist in the same deployment environment to facilitate
migration of complex installations. Additionally, every component of the
Confluent Web services Management Platform can be clustered and load-balanced,
ensuring the highest-possible performance and availability of XML Web Service
based processes.
"Until now, Web services management products have been capable only of
department-level Web services management," said Alain Couder, president and
CEO of Confluent Software. "By offering enterprises the ability to enforce
operational best practices across an multiple departments, platforms and
transport protocols, Confluent is paving the way toward large, enterprise-
class deployments of Web services-based applications."
The new release of Confluent Web Services Management Platform will be
available at the end of December.
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