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Paremus chooses Jini™ Technology for Grid Computing Jini technology is the foundation for Infiniflow's autonomic capabilities London, UK, 29th July 2004 – Paremus announced its endorsement of Jini™ technology for grid computing with Infiniflow™ – the Enterprise Grid Fabric™. Developed by Sun Microsystems, Jini technology is a network architecture for the construction of distributed systems where scale, resilience and adaptability are paramount. Jini technology provides a flexible infrastructure for delivering services in a network and for creating spontaneous interactions between clients that use these services, independent of their hardware or software implementations. Although Jini technology is not a complete grid framework, its core concepts such as service leasing, service discovery and object mobility, provide the ideal foundations for a new generation of agile distributed enterprise compute service. “After Java™, we consider Jini to be the most important technology development ever released by Sun Microsystems,” said Dr Richard Nicholson, CTO Paremus. “Whilst Paremus, a founding sponsor of the EGA, has Infiniflow-related Web Services Resource Framework and JXTA components in research and development, Jini and its service oriented characteristics, have been critical to realizing Infiniflow's unique autonomic capabilities. We believe that Jini has been ready to take its rightful position as the service oriented framework for the next generation of agile utility-centric enterprise for some time now, and that recent Web Services developments do nothing to challenge this.” Developed over the last two years, Infiniflow augments core Jini technology behaviours by leveraging recovery oriented, robust and complex adaptive design techniques. In addition, Infiniflow's dynamically evolvable self-assembling services, ‘swarm ‘ compute resource allocation behaviours, and a scale-free self-healing messaging substrate, allow sophisticated distributed processing patterns to be created whose service characteristics exceed current expectations for resiliency and scalability within distributed enterprise systems. “Jini technology enables dynamic networking, which is a powerful new way of networking that utilizes the Java platform to deliver highly adaptive technology systems,” says Bob Scheifler, Distinguished Engineer and Jini technology architect at Sun Microsystems. “It is a natural fit for grid computing, which is largely defined by its very dynamic nature and its need for the sort of flexible scaling, resilience, and evolvability that Jini technology can provide. Paremus has recognized this alignment, and has leveraged Jini technology in their Infiniflow grid fabric to create an exciting application of dynamic networking." “Initially designed for use in the Financial Services Industry, Infiniflow's flow-based architecture allows any number of complex business processes to use generic utility compute infrastructure services, whilst delivering unprecedented business agility, service availability and cost effectiveness.” said Mike Francis, Business Development Manager, Paremus. “Being built on rock solid, standards-based, open source software foundations allows Infiniflow to directly meet the challenges posed by next-generation distributed utility data centres."
About Paremus Formed in 2001 by senior IT architects from the investment banking industry, Paremus is an independent solutions company, combining the skills and experience of industry practitioners with recognized thought leadership. Paremus founders believe that next generation business applications will be built upon self-healing, dynamically scalable and functionally evolvable compute fabrics, this providing unprecedented cost, resilience and agility benefits. To realize this Enterprise Grid vision, Paremus has developed Infiniflow™ - The Enterprise Grid Fabric™. Leveraging complex adaptive system design principles to achieve true autonomic behaviour, the Infiniflow compute fabric can be implemented to address an immediate business issue, and then dynamically scaled to encompass the requirements of the entire enterprise. About Jini technology Jini™ network technology, which includes JavaSpaces Technology and Jini extensible remote invocation (Jini ERI), is an open architecture that enables developers to create network-centric services - whether implemented in hardware or software - that are highly adaptive to change. Jini technology can be used to build adaptive networks that are scalable, evolvable and flexible as typically required in dynamic computing environments. About the Jini Community Established in January 1999 with the release of the Jini Technology Starter Kit v1.0 from Sun Microsystems, the Jini Community is a flexible dynamic organization. Every individual, commercial company, or organization that has accepted the Jini SCSL is part of the Jini Community. Each member chooses how they wish to participate within the community - areas of interest, time available, or where you participate such as in projects, on discussion lists, or in community events. About Sun Microsystems Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com. |
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