GEMFIRE FOR ONLINE PORTALS

Most enterprises are betting on an online strategy to drive their businesses forward. The technologies put in place to support those strategies - such as portal servers or Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) or Microsoft .NET applications - are often fraught with challenges. These include:

• Poor application performance
• Lack of scalability under varying loads
• Inefficient data access from disparate sources
• High-latency data sharing and distribution among cluster components
• Data inconsistency
• Reduced reliability and quality of service

Consequently, these online portals often lead to an unpleasant customer experience.

The GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric provides a distributed data platform that enhances Web infrastructures such as J2EE and . NET applications. Through flexible distributed caching topologies, GemFire dramatically improves the scalability and performance of J2EE and .NET clusters. Session replication and database bottlenecks, which are typical problem areas in a portal deployment, can be addressed through distributed caching in the data fabric. Furthermore, through standards-based querying, distributed transactions, and high-availability mechanisms, GemFire champions the paradigm of a predominantly in-memory data management scheme that outshines disk-based architectures from a latency and efficiency standpoint while not compromising on reliability.