GemStone Upgrades EDF Performance

October 15, 2008: GemStone Systems has announced the release of its latest Enterprise Data Fabric (EDF) solution, promising performance increases of 50 to 100 percent when it comes to distributed data retrieval.

The company claims its GemFire Enterprise 5.7 adds significant value to those depending on a highly scalable, on-demand EDF environments, and simplifies the approach developers have previously taken to connect to the data fabric.

It says that the new version simplifies server discovery and automatic load balancing, enhancing business continuity capabilities and providing consistent response times, regardless of load.

GemStone adds that the included GFMon monitoring tool has also been enhanced to simplify data collection and allow customised data charts for administrators.

“Data has been growing at an exponential rate for some time, and with virtualisation and cloud computing coming into play, it's like adding fuel to the fire,” says Jags Ramnarayan, chief architect of Gemstone Systems. “GemFire Enterprise 5.7 release raises the bar for delivering simple, scalable and resilient data fabric for our customers to cope with such data deluge.”

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