Solace and GigaSpaces

Companies build and bridge multiple clustered computing environments for purposes of disaster readiness and recovery, separation of concerns and maximization of IT resource utilization. In these environments application traffic must leave the friendly confines of the LAN for the more volatile environment of the WAN. GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) improves the performance, capabilities and resource utilization of LAN-based applications, and Solace’s content routers excel at the distribution of information over WAN links.

Solace and GigaSpaces have joined forces to offer a unique solution that can link applications across multiple clustered computing environments, a capability called “space bridging.” This important new capability enables the real-time synchronization of multiple clustered computing environments over the WAN. This lets companies deploy XAP clusters anywhere in the world without worrying about problems caused by a lack of timely and continuous synchronization.

This bridging of multiple “spaces” is immensely valuable wherever information is time sensitive, because database-centric synchronization solutions can’t transfer data quickly enough to keep their applications synchronized to an acceptable level. Examples include financial services, telecommunications, cloud computing, logistics, government and online gaming.

Benefits

• High performance: The solution can increase throughput by a factor of ten or more, enabling near real-time synchronization of data, even over WANs, for situations that today rely on batch or delayed updates.
• Plug and play: The solution can accelerate any existing multi-space applications immediately. No client-side changes are required, so developers aren’t forced to adapt their applications to a new interface or function.
• Scalability: The solution allows synchronization between any number of spaces with highly efficient use of network resources across geographies. This forms a highly scalable architecture with reduced costs and improved performance across the WAN.
• Reliability and resilience: The solution queues messages to guarantee delivery with zero data loss even when clients or connections are temporarily unavailable. The solution is fault tolerant with redundant components and mutually-aware self-correcting behavior, similar to IP routers.
• Lower cost and complexity: The solution’s appliance form factor makes it straightforward to deploy and manage, and makes efficient use of expensive WAN bandwidth by sending requests and responses only where they are needed. It also provides connection-specific metrics that aid in debugging for the quick and easy identification and resolution of problems.