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metrics associates the application to currently monitored Hyperic resources such as application servers, database servers, the
operating system, and specific resource types. By providing all of this information on one screen, Hyperic makes it easier to
pinpoint whether the problem is infrastructure- or application-related. If the application is the culprit, Hyperic-Insight integration
enables you to move from Hyperic to Insight, in the same application context, to diagnose the underlying problem.
vFabric GemFire 7.0 (Application Cache Node)
VMware® vFabric™ GemFire® is a high performance, in-memory distributed data management solution that scales elastically at
runtime, ensuring fast, reliable data access in the cloud and across the enterprise. GemFire is language- and infrastructure-neutral,
which enables data-sharing across existing process, software, and hardware boundaries.
Business events often require many people to see the same information at the same time in globally distributed environments.
These demands strain IT resources, degrade performance, and increase costs for bandwidth, hardware, and personnel. GemFire
addresses the problem by provisioning consistent data dynamically at the right place, at the right time, and in the right format in
memory. Using dynamic replication and data partitioning techniques, GemFire offers continuous availability, high performance
and linear scalability for data-intensive applications without compromising data consistency, even under failure conditions. Data
virtualization provides data location transparency and decouples data access logic from applications.
The vFabric Suite offering for vFabric GemFire is the Application Cache Node, which provides peer-to-peer
functionality. You can buy an additional, separate license, Data Management Node, which includes client/server
and global WAN functionality. For details, see the vFabric GemFire documentation.
Main features of vFabric GemFire:
• Applications run 4 to 40 times faster with no additional hardware.
• Data awareness and real-time business intelligence. If data changes as you retrieve it, you see the changes immediately.
• Re-engineered APIs and integration with Spring Framework speed and simplify the development of scalable, transactional
enterprise applications.
• HTTP session replication provides linear scalability, and integrates cleanly with tc Server.
• Fixed partitioned regions, for greater control of deployment options.
• Portable Data eXchange (PDX) serialization, which provides reduced object size to store more data with less memory, and
Language independence for better integration with .NET.
• Faster startup and recovery for persistent regions.
• Client-initiated transactions.
• Client querying using parameters.
• Combines redundancy, WAN replication, and a “shared nothing” persistence architecture to deliver fail-safe reliability and
performance.
• Continuous querying to provide active data change notifications.
• Horizontally scalable to thousands of cache nodes, with multiple cache topologies to meet different enterprise needs. The
cache can be distributed across multiple computers.
• Support for asynchronous and synchronous cache update propagation.
• Optimized low latency distribution layer for reliable asynchronous event notifications and guaranteed message delivery.
For new feature information, see vFabric GemFire Release Notes.