Tangosol Announces the Immediate Availability of Coherence 3.1

Tangosol, Inc., the leading provider of Data Grid solutions that help organizations achieve high availability and extreme scalable performance for large-scale Java™ and J2EE™ applications, announces the immediate availability of Coherence™ 3.1.

Somerville, MA (PRWEB) February 27, 2006 -- Tangosol™, the leading provider of Data Grid solutions that help organizations achieve High Availability and extreme scalable performance for large-scale Java™ and J2EE™ applications, announces the immediate availability of Coherence™ 3.1.

With successful deployments in many of the world's largest financial, insurance, logistics, and telecommunication companies, Coherence is the gold standard for in-memory distributed data management, clustered caching, and data-intensive grid computing for mission critical enterprise Java applications. Driven by the real-world requirements of its largest users, Coherence 3.1 introduces a definitive set of powerful capabilities that set the bar for data grid functionality and scalable performance.

According to Cameron Purdy, President of Tangosol, “This new version of Coherence is our most significant release since the introduction of Coherence almost five years ago. It represents a major expansion in the positioning of Coherence and introduces a fundamental paradigm shift in how we -- and the industry -- think about the relationship between compute grids and the data that feeds them.

“Coherence 3.1 is the first and only fully compliant data grid solution in the marketplace today; it not only manages your data resiliently across many nodes in a scale-out environment, but it also provides the ability to optimize the distribution of your processing to that data.”

Coherence 3.1 Data Grid Features

Coherence provides solutions to some of the most difficult challenges associated with deploying massive-scale enterprise-wide applications that must provide totally current yet highly dynamic information, both instantly within the grid and all the way down to the desktop. The extensive new data grid capabilities include:

Coherence RealTime Desktop™ (Coherence RTD) offers a significant competitive advantage opportunity to banking, securities, and other financial institutions that depend upon the availability of timely and accurate information. As part of a Coherence Data Grid 3.1 solution, the Coherence RTD module resides on the desktop, and assures continuous availability of 100% up-to-date information, updated instantaneously with each transaction, totally transparently to the user. To achieve scalability into the tens of thousands of desktops, and to insure optimum performance at every desktop, client connections are load-balanced across the entire Data Grid using Coherence*Extend, a facility for securely accessing a Data Grid using the standard Java Message Service (JMS).

Coherence Data Grid Agents and Coherence Aggregate Functions open up the compute and data resources of the entire Data Grid to an application’s custom processing requirements. Coherence automatically, dynamically and resiliently partitions data management responsibilities over the hundreds or thousands of servers in a Data Grid, and uses its knowledge of that data distribution to achieve 100% locality of processing across the Data Grid. These new capabilities have proven to deliver dramatic performance improvements for such applications as real-time risk and distributed trading systems.

Coherence Distributed Work Manager provides a unique grid-enabled implementation of the same standard CommonJ Work Manager API provided in BEA WebLogic™ and IBM® WebSphere™. Using the Coherence Distributed Work Manager, an application can submit a collection of work that needs to be executed, and the Coherence Distributed Work Manager will automatically distribute the work for execution across the entire grid, using as many servers as are available and needed for the work items submitted.

Commenting on the Coherence 3.1 Data Grid Features, Rich Ptak, Partner at Ptak, Noel & Associates, says, “There exists widespread demand for the capabilities introduced in this Tangosol Coherence release. The rapid acceptance of initiatives based on the innovations of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and grid computing demonstrates how leading organizations are eager for an extra edge in delivering services to customers. However, these organizations must also reduce IT operating costs. By combining distributed application processing concepts and the power of unlimited data caching capacity with the relocation of processing to the most appropriate location, Tangosol Coherence not only complements such initiatives, but also allows high volume data intensive applications to reach levels of performance and scalability previously thought to be unattainable.”

Added Functionality to Existing Features

JMX Management Services Extended to Cover Coherence*Web™ and application MBeans Coherence*Web is an out-of-the-box HTTP Session management solution that provides linear scalability of HTTP Session management up to hundreds of servers, providing instant and transparent failover with no loss of session data. In Coherence 3.1, the JMX Management services available within Coherence now expose a unified cluster-wide view all of the management and monitoring capabilities of Coherence*Web. Also starting with Coherence 3.1, applications can expose their own management and monitoring information through Coherence, providing a unified operational view of the entire application.

New Coherence Third Party Integration

BEA WebLogic Portal™ Integration delivers Wide Area Network (WAN)-capable clustered session management and caching for BEA WebLogic Portal applications. Whenever Coherence is present, BEA WebLogic Portal will automatically offload all portal and personalization information caching to Coherence, freeing up valuable JVM resources for portal applications and enabling immense-sized portal caches with unparalleled resiliency.

Working in combination, BEA WebLogic Portal and Coherence can fill in huge performance and capability gaps for organizations building WSRP-federated Portal applications, enabling such applications to efficiently share large amounts of workflow, documents and live data in real time across any number of federated portlets.

Hibernate Integration adds true distributed transactional caching to Hibernate-based applications, with no code changes. Automatic Cache Loaders for Hibernate are also included.

BerkeleyDB Integration can improve Coherence performance for data sets too large to fit completely in memory.

About Tangosol, Inc.

Founded in 2000, Tangosol, Inc. is the industry leader in delivering data clustering, data grid, and caching solutions to organizations building and running mission-critical enterprise Java and J2EE applications and application components. Major banking, trading, logistics, travel, telecommunications, government and insurance institutions rely on Tangosol Coherence software. Through its use, they are able to achieve uninterrupted synchronized coordinated access to their most critical and often-used data at incredible speed, sustained even under the heaviest loads.

Contact:
Alex Gleyzer, Tangosol
www.tangosol.com
+1.617.623.5782

Tangosol, Coherence, Coherence*Web, and Coherence Real-Time Desktop are trademarks of Tangosol, Inc. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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