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http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1334491.html

Oracle has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tangosol Inc, a leading provider of reliable in-memory data grid software. Data grid software increases application performance by providing fast, distributed access to frequently used data. Tangosol’s product, Coherence Data Grid, is a fundamental enabler for the rapidly growing space of extreme transaction processing (XTP), typical in, among others, financial services, telecommunications, and travel and logistics industries. Coupled with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle TimesTen and Oracle Database, the combination will provide an integrated platform for businesses moving to this new model of transaction processing.

“Together, Oracle and Tangosol create the industry’s most comprehensive middleware for building applications that perform real-time data analytics, grid-based in-memory computations and high-performance transactions,” said Oracle Senior Vice President Thomas Kurian. “Tangosol adds significant customer value to the Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure where rapid customer adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0 and Event Driven Architecture (EDA) built on Oracle Fusion Middleware is driving the need for high performance, continuously available shared data services to offload and buffer analytic, compute and transaction processing cycles from backend core data processing services.”

This is great, it brings the two together, I’ve been speaking with some of the application developers/application teams that are using high performance computing/grid, and there are issues with scaling up the capacity.

By this I mean (hosting/cost/management issues aside), I can add another 2000 blade servers to the grid/high performance compute solution to give me faster performance, but there are only so many connections that the database and the database server can accept, there are only so many, connections, reads/writes that can occur at a single point in time, which is where caching comes in.

Oracle buying Tangosol allows them to provide not only the database, but to offer data caching within the tangosol/oracle portfolio, to own the data part of the grid/high performance compute model. It will be interesting to see where this leads, and what other platforms, opportunities the tangosol/oracle partnership can be deployed in.

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