Financial Middleware

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
 - Woody Allen

Business Challenge

While the concept of a multi-function middleware service bus is very attractive, the reality of delivering information with reliability and scale is very challenging. Each base capability – messaging, persistent messaging, content routing, content transformation, security and more – needs to be managed for scale and redundancy independently.

Solution Summary

Solace content networking systems move CPU intensive middleware functionality such as content routing, filtering, transformation and messaging into integrated hardware, enabling enterprises to build a more nimble, intelligent infrastructure. This provides improved performance for each core middleware function, reducing as many as 10 to 50 middleware servers into a single redundant Solace content router pair. Performance and throughput of various middleware functions improves by one or more orders of magnitude with easy growth as volumes increase.

Solace financial middleware solutions make it possible for performance sensitive applications to share a single common infrastructure while still reliably managing transaction volume spikes.

Value to Customers

Solace middleware solutions provide significant measurable value to customers:

  • Improved price/performance — Solace routers can deliver much higher performance in a fraction of the datacenter footprint. This results in much better value in support of distributed applications common with initiatives like service oriented architecture (SOA).
  • Cost savings — A single Solace content router delivers the shared application services of 10 to 50 general purpose servers resulting in savings on many fronts: less hardware to purchase and maintain, less software to license, less datacenter power and cooling and less manpower required to operate, patch and maintain racks of servers.
  • Improved management — Solace’s unique network processing hardware can track detailed usage statistics in hardware with no impact on throughput or latency of messages. This allows very high performance financial infrastructure with detailed understanding of the global operational details.