Hardware Platform optimizes messaging between IT systems.
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Employing pure-hardware approach utilizing FPGA and ASIC technologies, TIBCO Messaging Appliance(TM) P-7500 addresses latency, predictability, and throughput concerns for communication between IT systems. It consumes 375 W of power and comes in 3 network configurations, featuring 4 x 1 Gb, 8 x 1 Gb, or 2 x 10 Gb Ethernet connections. In addition to drop-in compatibility with Rendezvous client libraries, appliance includes redundant power supplies and fans for stable operation.
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TIBCO's First Hardware Delivers Quantum Leap Performance - Changing the Game for Enterprise IT
TIBCO Messaging Appliance(TM) P-7500 Shatters Messaging Speed Barrier Through Hardware-Only As Software Reaches Its Limits
India, February 13, 2009 - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) delivered the first hardware offering in the company's history, TIBCO Messaging Appliance(TM) P-7500. This radical new offering from a recognized messaging industry leader shatters a previously insurmountable messaging latency problem by taking an approach that lowers latency, improves predictability, and provides increased throughput by implementing TIBCO messaging in hardware.
"Messaging is the backbone of communications between IT systems. Whether used as a way to integrate applications or to disseminate data across systems in real time, message volumes are exploding," according to Maureen Fleming, program director, business process management and middleware at IDC. "Messaging appliances promise to improve both the cost-performance ratio and manageability of messaging and are an important next step in the evolution of this mission critical technology."
Extending TIBCO's 25-year history of continuous innovation, TIBCO Messaging Appliance(TM) P-7500 delivers a number of key metrics that will change the game for customers:
o 10X increase in messaging volume of current software-only solutions
o 50% reduction in base latency
o 10X increase in the predictability of data flows and performance
"Even in a period of turmoil in financial markets, the one constant is a steady increase in trading volume," said Ram Menon, executive vice president, worldwide marketing at TIBCO. "As a result, data-intensive industries-financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, government and major online commerce companies-need lower latency and increased throughput at lower costs."
Messaging is Growing Fast and Furious
Mainstream messaging volumes in enterprise IT today routinely reach the level of 1 million events per second, supporting tens to hundreds of services. This volume is expected to experience a quantum leap soon. Leading-edge companies are already witnessing volumes of 5 million events per second, and this level is expected to rise to 10 million-plus very soon, often supporting thousands of services.
"The messaging infrastructure backbone is at its breaking point," continued Menon. "Software has reached its limit in ultra-low latency messaging, focusing increasing importance on the hardware "plumbing" to deliver future performance increases."
In addition to high performance, ultra-low latency messaging requirements, TIBCO Messaging Appliance also helps TIBCO Rendezvous® customers reduce costs and gain efficiency in the servers required to support a Rendezvous® network. Through the use of TIBCO Messaging Appliance, customers can achieve a 10-to-1 reduction in the number of servers required by their messaging infrastructure, reinforcing TIBCO's commitment to Green IT.
"The P-7500 is the result of our work with literally hundreds of customers worldwide in all major geographies and markets. It addresses an area in critical need of a breakthrough idea. This is just the first in a series of hardware products that TIBCO plans to offer to its customers," said Vincent Cotte, head, product marketing, Asia Pacific/Japan, TIBCO.
TIBCO Messaging Appliance employs a pure hardware approach, utilizing field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technologies. TIBCO Messaging Appliance is offered in three different network configurations: 4-1Gb Ethernet connections, 8-1Gb Ethernet connections, and 2 - 10Gb Ethernet connections. Its 375W power consumption delivers new power-use efficiencies, and is the same size as a standard 4U server unit.
TIBCO Messaging Appliance preserves the investment customers have made in their Rendezvous applications by providing drop-in compatibility with existing versions of Rendezvous client libraries. TIBCO Messaging Appliance includes redundant power supplies, fans, and other mechanical components to protect against failure within each appliance. Additionally, it adds built-in hardware fault tolerance for increased reliability and active-active failover between two appliances.
ABOUT TIBCO
TIBCO technology digitized Wall Street in the '80s with the event-driven "Information Bus" software, which helped make real-time business a strategic differentiator in the '90s. Today, TIBCO's infrastructure software gives customers the ability to constantly innovate by connecting applications and data in a service-oriented architecture, streamlining activities through business process management, and giving people the information and intelligence tools they need to make faster and smarter decisions, what we call The Power of Now®. TIBCO serves more than 3,000 customers around the world with offices in more than 20 countries and an ecosystem of over 200 partners. Learn more at www.tibco.com.
TIBCO has a strong presence in India with sales office in Mumbai and a Global Development Centre located in Pune. Some of TIBCO customers include HDFC Bank Ltd., HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd., ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Centre for Railway Information Systems, Mahindra & Mahindra Group, Reliance Industries Ltd., Reliance Petroleum Ltd, Reliance Communications, etc.
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