GemCache: GemFire on IBM System x and BladeCenter |
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The unprecedented performance and scalability requirements of modern day SOA, Grid and transaction processing environments necessitate hardware and software infrastructure that can bolster IT environments and support even the most demanding applications.
GemCache is a hardware and software solution designed to address such growing needs of financial IT organizations and their distributed application environments. It features GemFire, a continuously available, high-performance data management software solution, running on the robust IBM BladeCenter® or System x™ platforms, which includes the next generation Intel® Xeon® Quad Core 5300 series processors.
GemCache data centers provide the ability to deliver high performance compute and data management in an energy efficient manner. GemCache is an ideal fit for multiple applications such as electronic trading and order management systems, market data and reference data systems and compute/analytics grids in areas like risk management. Any high volume, transactional system that needs 24 hour uptime can benefit greatly if designed to leverage the GemCache resiliency architecture.
Such widespread applicability within a financial enterprise is in large part due to the following salient technical benefits that GemCache offers:
- Increased scalability to handle growing compute and volumes in key business applications
- High-performance data access, distribution and real-time data analysis
- Potential reduced power and cooling costs leading to higher performance/watt characteristics
- Operational Reliability and continuous system availability at low cost of ownership,
- Seamless architecture scale-out for phased enterprise wide deployment
GemCache is available in the form of two packages (different base hardware configurations and pricing), depending on the nature of applications being deployed on this platform:
- GemCache Data Transactions - designed for high performance transaction environments such as electronic trading, online portals, payment/claims processing.
- GemCache Data Grid – designed for data-intensive Grid applications such as risk analytics and calculations, actuarial analysis, pricing engines and scientific simulations.
With these solution packages, data can be managed in at memory speeds using GemFire and distributed across several System x servers so that even the most concurrent and demanding applications can operate without performance degradation and guarantee a high quality of service. In this manner, every hardware node from the edge to the core is enabled with sophisticated data management capabilities. As a consequence of this compute-data confluence, applications enjoy immediate, reliable and consistent access to read/update data irrespective of the backend data store at speeds and throughputs that enable breakthrough business results.
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