Beaverton, OR and Toronto, ON – September 6, 2006 –
GemStone Systems, the leading provider of the Enterprise Data Fabric
(EDF), and Platform Computing, the industry leader in enterprise grid
software solutions, today announced a strategic technology
partnership. The unified GemStone – Platform solution enables
organizations to virtualize, share, and manage data, compute and other
IT resources across application deployments on grid-based
infrastructures. The joint solution delivers unmatched
scalability and performance by parallelizing data availability while
intelligently leveraging comprehensive IT resources to guarantee
scalability and low- latency for high performance applications.
The combined use of GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric with Platform
Symphony is already helping several firms combat the compute and data
intensive challenges hindering many grid initiatives, significantly
improving performance and reliability. GemFire serves as data grid that
pools memory and disk across a grid, providing unmatched data access,
intelligent task routing and delivery that further enhances the CPU
utilization of compute resources managed by Symphony. In this fashion,
even the most demanding applications can scale transparently and manage
large scale computations and massive data volumes on the grid.
“As financial services firms continue to move toward large scale
distributed systems, they are faced with challenges of compute power,
as well as data access and distribution,” said Simon Lonsdale, Director
of Strategic Alliances, Platform. “The integration of GemFire and
Symphony means that as our customers’ infrastructures grow, they can
overcome these challenges by maximizing their existing hardware
resources, increasing revenue while reducing cost.”
GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric can also intelligently feed data to
heterogeneous, distributed IT resources virtualized by Platform
Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO) and drive precise, real-time
business decisions. By leveraging existing IT assets, the joint
solution powers multiple applications running in a shared environment,
significantly improving enterprise efficiency while lowering the total
cost of ownership.
"By partnering with Platform and leveraging their products and
expertise, we can expand the benefits of the Enterprise Data Fabric
(EDF) to any organization attempting to reap the benefits of grid
computing and virtualization," said Juan Menendez, SVP of Business
Development, GemStone Systems. "This partnership delivers a
best-in-class, comprehensive solution to virtualize, manage and
provision resources and data across a network of nodes running
disparate applications, delivering mission critical data
instantaneously to large-scale applications."
About GemStone Systems, Inc.
GemStone Systems is the leading provider of the Enterprise Data Fabric
(EDF), offering data services solutions for enterprise business
architects and data infrastructure managers that are building,
enhancing or simplifying access, distribution, integration and
management of information within and across the enterprise.
Founded in 1982, and with over 200 installed customers, GemStone is
recognized worldwide for its unique competency and patented technology
in object management, virtual memory architectures, high-performance
caching, and data distribution technologies.
About Platform Computing
Platform Computing is the global leader for grid computing solutions
and a technology pioneer of the supercomputing world. The company's
solutions for enterprise and high performance computing helps the
world's largest organizations integrate and accelerate business
processes, to increase competitive advantage and enjoy a higher return
on investment from IT. With over 2000 customers, the company has
achieved a clear leadership position in the market through a focus on
technology innovation and execution. Founded in 1992, Platform
Computing has strategic relationships with Dell, HP, IBM, Intel,
Microsoft, Novell and Red Hat, along with the industry's broadest
support for third-party applications. For more information please visit
platform.com
