GEMFIRE IN GOVERNMENT

The goal for the Department of Defense's NetCentric data strategy, the Intelligence community's collaboration initiatives, and the combined Horizontal Integration efforts, is to make information available to anyone, anytime, anywhere across organizational boundaries. Business specific events cause many people to want to see the same information at the same time in massively distributed environments. This ubiquitous requirement to access information puts considerable strain on existing IT and operational infrastructure.

What's needed is a pervasive data fabric that supports distributed and real-time decision making that can be delivered with low insertion and low cost impact. GemFire is the data fabric that provides data access on-demand across the enterprise while it is decoupled from the applications or infrastructures that require it. It takes advantage of low cost clustered systems, reduces the load on existing hardware and software, and improves quality of service to the user.

Benefits of GemFire

1. Avoids Redundant Disk and Database Access. GemFire virtualizes distributed data dynamically across the hardware and software boundaries of the enterprise.
   
2. Enables Cross-Application Collaboration. GemFire increases performance by enabling distributed in-memory, cross application, data exchange via C, Java, or XML. Performance significantly increases when data is cached in-memory instead of staged in a database.
   
3. Positions Data Close to Point of Use. GemFire enhances the performance of portals, applications, application servers and systems by storing data that is accessed multiple times by programs, groups of users or by a single user who is massaging the data.
   
4. Reduce Network Load. Caching data close to point of use prevents unnecessary re-transmission of data across the network for each user. This contributes to a reduction in network load.
   
5. Enhances Survivability of Distributed Applications . The distributed GemFire cache enables applications to continue to work with data that was retrieved before a network outage.
   
6. Turbo-charges Web Services-Based Applications . GemFire significantly enhances XML performance in a Web services environment. It stores XML documents in optimized cache, thus minimizing data access time and storage space in memory. This is one of the critical challenges in a Web Services implementation.
   
7. Boosts performance and scalability for Java and J2EE Applications . GemFire enables Java applications to access additional memory outside of their process space and thus manipulate more data.
   
8. Enable Multiple Computers to Seamlessly Share Memory . GemFire can create a data-space that spans multiple computer's memories. This capability can be used to allow GemFire caches on 32 bit computers to share memory with 64 bit computers that are virtually unlimited in the amount of memory they can address. This capability can also be used to allow computers in a Grid of blade server environment to appear to have a single large memory space, instead of having a group of disjointed individual memory spaces.