DataSynapse GridServer 5.0 First to Market with Mega-Grid Capabilities

Award-Winning Product Simplifies Enterprise-Wide Administration, Offers Enhanced Role-Based Security and Low Latency Capabilities

NEW YORK and LONDON – June 25, 2007 – DataSynapse, the global provider of Application Virtualization software, today announced the newest version of GridServer®, making it the first product on the market to offer mega-grid capabilities for grids of up to 20,000 nodes.  GridServer 5.0 answers the call for improved global administration, including seamless integration with enterprise authorization frameworks and role-based security policies that allow organizations to protect application integrity in a distributed environment.

 

These major enhancements give organizations and administrators first-in-class management capabilities based on real-world customer experiences from the DataSynapse client base, many of whom are running global grids of 5,000+ CPUs that span multiple data centers.

 

“With scalability on demand, businesses can optimize the utilization of internal resources, reducing cost and complexity as well as achieving greater business agility,” said Mark Blowers, senior research analyst at Butler Group. “The end result is to make current applications meet service levels and the objectives of the organization.”

 

Key features of the latest release of GridServer are: 

  • “Low touch” grid administration capabilities that simplify management of mega-grids, including:
    — Enterprise Management Dashboard with Search – GridServer administrators can more easily track, visualize and search grid activity categorized by component, and can use grid-wide searches to quickly locate engines, daemons and services
    — AJAX-enabled dynamic views of current state grid information
  • Advanced optimization of engine assignments with property-based affinities that enable preference-based workload scheduling 
  • User-Defined Roles for fine-grained security and entitlements with seamless integration to existing authentication and authorization systems
    — LDAP and Active Directory integration with group/role mappings
    — “Maker-Checker” functions to enable audited coordination and workflow of grid administration of key functions like provisioning and deployment of services 
  • A low latency .NET virtual service implementation is available with the GridServer 5.0 release that boasts a 2 millisecond task latency that can improve efficiency of fine-grained workloads 

The GridServer product is part of DataSynapse’s solution to help today’s enterprises achieve business-aligned IT by virtualizing, distributing and executing application workload in a guaranteed, scalable manner over existing computing resources.  By matching application demand with supply of available system and data resources, GridServer provides an “on-demand” environment that dramatically improves application performance, resiliency and uptime.  Organizations can dynamically scale any application service, at any time.

 

“More than a dozen DataSynapse clients are in production today with mega-grids that exceed 3,000 CPUs, with plans to grow to 10,000 and higher,” said Jamie Bernardin, CTO and co-founder of DataSynapse.  “With GridServer 5.0, DataSynapse significantly simplifies the ease of administering a global, real-time infrastructure.”

 

About GridServer
The GridServer solution provides application service virtualization software that virtualizes and distributes application workload.  It executes tasks in a guaranteed, scalable manner over existing computing resources creating a real-time infrastructure.  By creating a virtualized environment that matches user demand with supply of available system and data resources, the GridServer solution provides an “on-demand” environment that dramatically improves application performance, resiliency and uptime.  GridServer provides dynamic scaling for any application service.


About DataSynapse

DataSynapse is a world leader in dynamic application service management software for the always on, always responsive data center. The DataSynapse platform is used by leading organizations to deliver, manage, and optimize scalable enterprise-class application services. DataSynapse provides a standardized, automated approach to configuring, activating and scaling enterprise applications in real-time environments for many of the world’s leading companies. For more information, please visit www.datasynapse.com.

 



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