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Appistry Rolls Out New Fabric for SOAs
11/12/2007
Charrington described the Application Fabric as "the convergence of SOA, virtualization and grid."
Appistry supports customers that want to move away from the expensive grid computing model, running large servers for their SOAs. Charrington said that sort of approach can be costly when it's time to scale operations.
"When their business experiences a peak in demand and they need 20 percent more capacity, they've got to go buy another $100,000 computer to run their services," he explained. "Whereas the true notion of agility would mean just go buy some more blades or some inexpensive machines from Dell and just plug them in."
A more agile model is the one championed by Google, which is famous for building out its data centers using cheap x86-based computers, he said.
More information on Appistry's EAF product can be found here.
Kurt Mackie is online news editor, Enterprise Group, at 1105 Media Inc. You can contact Kurt at kmackie@1105media.com.
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