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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
| Source: TIBCO Software Inc.
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - February 4, 2009) - TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ : TIBX ) delivered
the first hardware offering in the company's history,
TIBCO Messaging Appliance™ 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™ P-7500 delivers a number of key metrics that will change the
game for customers:
-- 10X increase in messaging volume of current software-only solutions
-- 50% reduction in base latency
-- 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 Tom Laffey, executive vice
president, products and technology 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
Laffey. "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," Laffey
concluded.
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.
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