GEMFIRE FOR BLADES

Most IT environments are realizing the power and flexibility of commodity hardware like  Blades and are moving from symmetric multi-processing architectures to distributed  Blade hardware architectures. But such a transition also creates new challenges in managing data across a network of blades. These include:

• Data access for heterogeneous applications in multiple languages and using different access patterns, including batch and real-time access.
• Scalability with addition of nodes
• High-performance access and persistence models for operational data
• Guaranteed data access and resiliency

The GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric provides an operational data layer for blade environments by providing:

• Data virtualization from multiple sources of data with location transparency and format neutrality
• Low-latency data access
• On-demand data distribution
• High availability through replication and disk persistence

GemFire products have been certified on IBM BladeCenter hardware ( IBM eServer xSeries servers). More information on this joint offering can be found in the  GemFire for Blades datasheet.