Infravio Ware Offered In HP NonStop
01/20/2004
Infravio, Inc., a provider of contract-driven Web Services Management software, has ported its Ensemble Web Services Management Suite to the HP NonStop platform. “Companies using HP NonStop can now achieve the easy application integration afforded by Web services, and connect their NonStop applications to applications on other platforms,” Infravio says.
“Including HP NonStop as a target platform for the Ensemble Distributed Broker eases NonStop customers into the world of Web Services,” said Patrick Vallaeys, vice president of marketing at Infravio. “They too can now benefit from Infravio’s advanced Web Services Management and Governance, with features particularly important within the NonStop heritage, such as SLA and QoS management, flexible services routing, or version control.”
“Infravio Ensemble software gives our customers the confidence to deploy mission critical Web Services applications on their NonStop servers,” said Suri Harish, director, product management for NonStop Systems at HP. “Customers can now build a Web Service infrastructure that can adapt to meet their emerging and challenging business needs.”
Infravio explains that, “HP NonStop servers were introduced in 1975 as the world’s first commercial fault-tolerant computer systems and are part of HP’s high-end enterprise server lineup. Built to support mission-critical computing environments, the NonStop server virtually eliminates system downtime, offering continuous availability, high scalability and solid data integrity. NonStop servers power business-critical firms such as banks, stock exchanges, and telecommunications providers around the world.
“HP NonStop customers can achieve three major benefits with this new capability,” Infravio says. IN THE VENDOR’S WORDS, THEY ARE:
- Customers can manage Web Services running on their NonStop systems with Infravio Ensemble to secure their services, ensure version control, manage Service Level Agreements and provide flexible routing. They can reap the benefits of Web Services on their high availability, high performance HP NonStop platform, integrating it more completely into their broader IT environment. Using Ensemble, customers building an SOA can centrally manage Web Services running on multiple platforms, now including HP NonStop systems.
- For companies needing very high levels of availability and performance, the Infravio Distributed Broker running on the HP NonStop systems provides the ideal, scalable, fault-tolerant Web Services broker to run in proxy mode front-ending their Application Servers.
- Companies on the path to being real-time enterprises can manage their Web Services in real time with Infravio Ensemble. As a company develops dozens of individual web services, it needs the facility for managing their life cycle — how do you put new versions into play, how do you run multiple versions, how do you fallback to prior versions, how do you keep track of usage and performance? Many NonStop customers are on this real time path and can take advantage of industrial-strength Web Services to facilitate their application integration projects.
“For Infravio, the port represents another step forward in the company’s commitment to managing Web Services across heterogeneous platforms,” the vendor asserts. “The Ensemble Distributed Broker already runs on virtually all J2EE platforms including BEA WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere and Jboss and will soon be available on .Net. Adding HP NonStop to the mix both expands the heterogeneous capabilities of Ensemble while it indicates the product’s suitability for mission critical implementations where high levels of performance and availability are mandatory.”