What shall be the future trends in the enterprise infrastructure industry,
both from a business and technology perspective?
From a business perspective, there is a constant push to lower TCO for the
enterprises. Coupled with this is the ever-growing need to make business
decisions with the most relevant and up-to-date information. This is pushing the
industry toward lower latency, and higher throughput infrastructure software
that offers unparalleled scale out and zero downtimes. From a technology
perspective, the availability of high performance commodity hardware, along with
zero copy latency stacks, provides an ecosystem that makes it possible to
achieve the desired business needs.
What are the exciting things to watch out from GemStone in the near
future?
In addition to the intense focus on latency and performance that we bring to
every Gemfire release, we are tackling more and more items that provide ease of
use, ease of integration, and ease of monitoring and management to the
enterprise architect in the distributed data management segment. The pluggable
solutions with GFE will make it easier to leverage the power of Gemfire much
more easily in a broader spectrum of applications.
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| Sudhir Menon, director of engineering, GemStone Systems |
How are your data fabrics progressing in view of the various vertical
specific demands?
Having tackled the demands for raw performance, scale out, and high
availability, the product has addressed the base requirements of the financial
services vertical. In moving from Wall Street to Main Street, we are now
tackling integration with standard interfaces like SQL and JPA, providing
state-of-the-art management and monitoring tools, and tighter integration with
commonly used infrastructures like application servers. In parallel, we are also
OEMing the infrastructure into high performance end-user products that can
exploit the capability set of Gemfire to provide major differentiators for our
OEM partners and their end users.
Do you have any remarks on enterprise data fabric (EDF), particularly in
context to SOA, grid/cluster computing, and OLTP applications?
The upcoming release of Gemfire Enterprise (version 5.7) offers several new
features that were built as part of our Grid Readiness initiative. As part of
this effort, we have fine-tuned our scaling, made several ease-of-use additions
to the product, and improved our handling of network partitioning outages.
Pratima Harigunani
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