Platform Symphony 5 introduces many enhancements to the core product as well as two new add-on products that maximize application performance by optimizing data movement and computing efficiency in virtualized and multi-core environments.

New add-on products

• Platform Symphony Data Affinity eliminates data bottlenecks by merging the compute grid with the data grid and intelligently placing workload on systems that are physically close to the required data. To read more click here.

• Platform Symphony Multi-Core Optimizer lets you get optimum utilization out of multi-core servers – whether your application is multi-threaded or not. To read more click here.

Core functionality improvements include:

More and better risk analysis

• Predictable and efficient resource management enables customers to perform more risk analysis with existing infrastructure. New product enhancements:
  • Minimize impact of reclaiming resources that are lent out
  • Maximize usage of available processing capacity
  • Reduce resource contention

Real-time applications

• Sophisticated application workload management enables new opportunities for real-time application on-boarding and lets you:
  • Process real-time workload immediately
  • Eliminate wait times for intermittent tasks
  • Request the fastest available resources

Other enhancements

• Enhanced rule and access rights control allows  users to define new rules and assign new permissions to rules
  • Improved debugging experience
  • Scheduled search for task/session activities
  • First-come-first-serve scheduling policy