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Azul Systems, provider of server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network service, and Gemstone Systems, supplier of distributed data management and virtualisation solutions, have forged an alliance to deliver highly scalable and available data grids for Extreme Transaction Processing. The joint solution – which stems from a mutual engagement for the two companies at a leading Wall Street bank - provides “breakthrough” scalability and performance, the vendors say, enabling faster response times and more throughput to process stateful data in enterprise IT infrastructures, along with what they claim is unprecedentedly high availability. In the capital markets arena, the partners are targeting the high performance solution at applications such as real-time order management, trade execution, risk analysis and compliance.

Gemstone News Release 

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GemStone Systems has released GemFire Enterprise 5.1, a core component of its enterprise data fabric (EDF). The new release serves as a distributed operational data management infrastructure that sits between clustered application processes and back-end data sources to provide very low latency, predictable, high-throughput data sharing and event distribution. By managing data in memory, GemFire Enterprise 5.1 enables high-speed data sharing that turns a network of machines into a single, logical data management unit or a data fabric.

GemStone News Release

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Oracle caused a bit of excitement at the end of last week when it made an unsolicited bid for BEA Systems. BEA’s rejected it of course, saying it undervalues the company. All standard procedure. We’ll see what Oracle’s next move is. But if the transaction does happen, it will bring together some useful technologies that have merit in the world of low latency.
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Gemstone Systems has established a wholly owned subsidiary - GemStone Systems KK - in Japan, and has tapped Takashi Kerakawachi as Managing Director. Previously, Kerakawachi was with Hitachi and BEA Systems.

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Sun Microsystems has incorporated Gigaspaces Technologies‘ Extreme Application Platform into its low latency market data offering. That offering also includes Sun’s Ultrasparc-based Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, the Solaris 10 operating system and Sun’s Java platform.

Gigaspaces News Release

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Launched at last week’s SIFMA show, Gemstone Systems debuted Gemcache, comprising its Gemfire data fabric, running on IBM System x bladeservers, themselves based on Intel Quad-Core Xeon processors. The solution delivers high speed data distribution layered on I/O Acceleration technology and a high availability model and system management framework.

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BEA Systems has announced BEA WebLogic Real Time 2.0 aimed at reducing latency for Java applications. The product reduces latency with a guaranteed worst-case pause time of 10 milliseconds and average pause times as low as sub-millisecond, down from a previous 30-millisecond worst case.

BEA News Release

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Data fabric provider GemStone Systems is partnering with ObjectWave, a provider of enterprise level object oriented systems. By integrating ObjectWave’s JGrinderX with GemFire Enterprise, companies can enable low-latency, predictable, high-throughput data sharing and real-time event distribution by virtually fusing individual network machines into a single data management unit.

GemStone News Release

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Platform Computing and GigaSpaces Technologies have entered into a joint marketing and technical development agreement to integrate Platform’s enterprise-wide grid resource management solutions with GigaSpaces’ technology for end-to-end linear scalability of transactional and data-intensive applications.

GigaSpaces News Release