May 07, 2007
Paremus, developer of the distributed OSGi and SCA-based Infiniflow
service platform, and QuIC Financial Technologies Inc., a global
solutions provider of risk management, pricing and financial analytics
solutions, announced a combined offering that provides financial
customers with a standards-based, highly scalable and resilient
distributed services platform for analytics solutions including complex
portfolio simulation, instrument pricing and modeling. Paremus'
Infiniflow Enterprise Service Grid (ESG) has been integrated with the
QuIC Product Suite to provide an exceptionally fast grid distribution
solution.
Infiniflow ESG is part of the Infiniflow Enterprise
Service Fabric suite of products from Paremus, and provides a robust,
autonomic, standards-based, lightweight, service grid solution capable
of supporting the simplest application to the most sophisticated
business service.
The QuIC Engine, which is at the core of the
QuIC Product Suite, provides market-leading speed, flexibility and
scalability. Designed to scale up or down while running on a range of
configurations from a single laptop to large-scale distributed
environments incorporating multi-CPU servers and blade clusters, the
integrated QuIC-Infiniflow solution runs on most operating systems.
"QuIC's
customers demand a service environment that can dynamically and
transparently adapt to changes in the computational demands of the QuIC
Engine," said Mike Francis, sales and marketing director for Paremus.
"Infiniflow ESG meets that challenge while delivering unparalleled
resilience for mission-critical applications."
Infiniflow ESG
boasts a truly distributed, dynamic architecture, making it easy to
deploy, distribute and manage QuIC engines across commodity hardware
and utility datacenter infrastructures. Infiniflow's autonomic
capabilities allow the grid to assemble, heal, scale, manage and audit
itself without operator intervention, resulting in an agile grid
solution with no single point of failure.
"A number of QuIC's
customers are already enjoying enhanced application availability and
performance benefits due to the Infiniflow service platform," said
Justin Forrest, Vice President, Business Development at QuIC. "By
creating this integrated QuIC-Infiniflow solution we have enhanced our
offering of a shared calculation fabric, which can be leveraged
throughout an enterprise."
The Infiniflow Enterprise Service
Fabric transparently supports business applications that are OSGi and
SCA compliant, and Infiniflow is itself, built from the ground-up
leveraging these important industry standards. Defined by the OSGi
Alliance, OSGi defines a dynamic, re-useable component framework that
is being adopted by all of the leading Application Server vendors, and
used by Spring and the Eclipse IDE. SCA is a protocol and language
independent wire-up description, part of OASIS and backed by most of
the leading IT software vendors.
"OSGi and SCA are about to
fundamentally reshape the enterprise application server, ESB and grid
compute landscapes," said Richard Nicholson, CEO and founder of
Paremus. "Our relationship with QuIC is one of many commercial
relationships based on OSGi and SCA technology that we'll be announcing
in the coming months, enabling the delivery of the next generation of
composite business solutions running as SaaS components on the
Infiniflow distributed runtime platform."
The integrated QuIC-Infiniflow solution is available now.
About Paremus
Paremus
offers Infiniflow -- the Enterprise Service Fabric -- a suite of
lightweight, distributed, autonomic, SOA platforms for highly dynamic,
composite, business applications. Leveraging the OSGi and Service
Component Architecture standards, Infiniflow allows users to realize
the full potential of distributed computing for their re-usable,
composite service oriented applications. Infiniflow's distributed
autonomic runtime environment offers maximum IT agility for businesses
while delivering advanced resource management technology that allows
automatic resource optimization to dramatically reduce datacenter
operating costs. Infiniflow provides transparent support for composite
POJO's and Spring-based business applications and makes it simple to
enhance resilience, distribute, scale and manage these applications at
runtime. Identified by Gartner as a Visionary in the enterprise
application server marketplace, Infiniflow is the ideal next generation
solution to deliver competitive advantage for your enterprise today.
For more information, visit www.paremus.com.
About QuIC Financial Technologies Inc.
QuIC
is a global solutions provider for risk management, pricing and
financial analytics. The QuIC Platform provides speed, accuracy and
flexibility for pricing and risk calculations regardless of volume or
complexity. QuIC technology delivers scalable, dynamically extensible
and user-customizable solutions, by creating a shared calculation
fabric available to multiple recipients throughout the enterprise. The
QuIC Product Suite easily integrates with in-house, partner and
third-party applications and systems and operates in diverse
environments, from a single laptop to large distributed grids. For more
information, visit www.quic.com.
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