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TIBCO introduces enterprise cloud platform


By David Worthington
June 3, 2009 — 
TIBCO Software announced today a rapid application development platform for cloud computing, called "Silver," which integrates governance into services, and responds to troughs and spikes in demand without human intervention.

Silver was designed to address gaps in the marketplace for governance, security and portability, said Rourke McNamara, director of product marketing at TIBCO.

The platform was built for developing line-of-business applications, "not the next Twitter," he added. A beta will become available on June 30.

"TIBCO is building a bridge to the enterprise," said John Rymer, a principal analyst at Forrester. "The governance it has done and the languages supported out of the box are much more aligned with technologies used to build enterprise applications. Not even IBM has moved this aggressively.

"This is the enterprise thrust that the industry has been waiting to see. Many clouds are designed for new things, not today's applications," he added.

Services that are composed in Silver follow the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification and are orchestrated using Business Process Execution Language, McNamara said. SCA describes a model for building reusable components.

Silver automatically embeds governance into applications without requiring the developer to write any code, McNamara said. It also provides "automatic support" for access control, encryption and other security through Web Services (WS-*) standards, he added.

Programming is initially restricted to Java using the Spring Framework and POJO (Plain Old Java Object), but container support will be extended to C++, .NET, PEARL, Python and Ruby in the future, McNamara explained.

TIBCO anticipates that the majority of cloud applications will be written from scratch until enterprises better understand the value proposition offered by SaaS, McNamara said. "Moving [enterprise] infrastructure to the cloud doesn't make sense at this time."

Customers can migrate existing Apache Axis2 POJO applications to Silver with "a little bit of work" to take advantage of Silver's governance, McNamara said. He noted that applications running on Oracle's WebLogic Server would require some additional application changes.

No specialized code will be required for the underlying cloud infrastructure, he added. TIBCO is currently partnering with Amazon as its provider, but it will support other cloud platforms in the future. "Customers will switch infrastructure providers by clicking and dropping on another option," said McNamara.

TIBCO has designed Silver to have self-aware elasticity by leveraging its Complex Events Processing (CEP) technology. The feature will help enterprises manage Service Level Agreements, the company says.

"This is basically a new product built from a lot of existing technologies TIBCO had developed for years," said Rymer.

The CEP engine compares events to historic data and scales automatically when there is a significant change in demand. Silver can be configured so that it doesn't spin up too many machines, McNamara noted.

"Everyone is claiming that their platform is elastic, but they mean that you change machines manually," said McNamara. "We are more like the power grid.

"Today, elasticity is like running an air conditioner and having to call Con Edison for another 20 megawatts. They will charge you for it even if you are not running the AC."


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