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TIBCO develops hardware for faster messaging


By David Worthington
February 4, 2009 — 
Rapid messaging is the backbone of Complex Events Processing (CEP) and service-oriented architecture. TIBCO Software has introduced a new appliance that it says can significantly increase the speed of messaging between disparate systems beyond what software can accomplish.

TIBCO introduced today its first hardware product ever, the TIBCO Messaging Appliance P-7500. It provides drop-in compatibility with software that uses TIBCO Rendezvous messaging software, and it reduces the number of servers required by customers' messaging infrastructure down to a tenth of what was needed, the company says.

 
In comparison to Rendezvous, the messaging appliance provides a tenfold increase in messaging volume, a 50% reduction in base latency, and a tenfold increase in the predictability of data flows and performance, said Rourke McNamara, director of product marketing at TIBCO.

Most server-side messaging software performs at the same speed; all the products on the market are optimized, he said. "The appliance can keep up with the fastest networks. Moving messaging to hardware can saturate the [network] pipe."

"CEP and SOA are drivers for messages. Customers are finding that they have more events to publish than expected, and more SOA needs fast messages," he said, noting that "milliseconds matter" in large enterprises. The appliance can be used as a messaging backbone underneath an Enterprise Service Bus or to meet a CEP requirement, he said.

"Messaging is the backbone of communications between IT systems," said Maureen Fleming, program director of business process management and middleware at IDC. "Whether used as a way to integrate applications or to disseminate data across systems in real time, message volumes are exploding. 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."

The appliance behaves like a router with two distinct paths for management and traffic, McNamara explained. "The data packet never leaves the board, and the message is never copied," he said. TIBCO designed the appliance to be redundant and for hardware expansion.

TIBCO offers several different network configurations for the appliance, and they are available for lease in annual contracts. Field-programmable gate arrays provide for remote firmware upgrades, but the appliances can also be upgraded on site, McNamara noted.


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