Reason 10: Commitment to Innovation

Posted by on Apr 26, 2011

This is part 10 in a 10 part series: 10 reasons for the growth in middleware appliances. The series summarizes what we’ve learned from our clients about what they value in appliances and why they selected Solace. A lot has changed since the most common software messaging protocols gained their foothold 20 years ago, and there’s only so much incremental improvement you can squeeze out of a...
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Network savvy trading with Solace and Arista LANZ

Posted by on Mar 15, 2011

We’ve had a great partnership with low latency switch vendor Arista Networks for a while now – our products complement each other very well and our companies align nicely in terms of personality and strategy. This morning we expanded our partnership as part of their announcement of a new feature called “Latency Analyzer” (abbreviated LANZ) that provides detailed real-time metrics about...
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The serious business of securing cities

Posted by on Sep 15, 2010

Often in this blog, we are a little light-hearted about the serious business of doing business. That’s because the truth of the matter is that most of the things we consider “important” on our daily to-do list are not really so important in the grand scheme of things. But one thing that’s no laughing matter is the importance of keeping people in major population centers...
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The Inevitable Convergence of Middleware into the Network

Posted by on Sep 14, 2009

Today in New York our CEO Craig Betts co-keynoted the High Performance on Wall Street conference with Andy Bechtolsheim and a representative of Barclays Capital. The theme was something we talk about a lot at Solace: the convergence of middleware and the network. The need to effectively route an increasingly massive volume of data at high speed is defining competitive advantage in more and more...
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Ushering in the Unified Messaging Platform

Posted by on Jun 19, 2009

History Has Left Us with a Potpourri of Messaging From the earliest days of distributed computing, the idea that steps in a workflow use a task queue of some kind to pass off information has been a central tenant of information design. Over time, major buckets have emerged, each on their own timelines, and each with a different technology that became the de facto standard.Message queuing...
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The evolution and future of Ethernet — is it the perfect predator?

Posted by on Apr 24, 2009

Sharks are so deadly and efficient that they’ve been called “the perfect predator.” That’s why I find it fascinating that they’ve been the top predator in the oceans for literally hundreds of millions of years, and haven’t changed much since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Why not? They didn’t need to! Their basic design was so good that it only needed tweaking to survive while...
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Honey, 10GigE shrunk the datacenter!

Posted by on Apr 24, 2009

With all the talk about speed and throughput, I think a lot of people look past the most concrete and immediate benefit of 10GigE: more compact, less costly data centers. Simply put, if each wire can carry 10x the data, you need 1/10 as many wires to connect all your servers and storage devices. The ratio isn’t precise, and it doesn’t extend to network equipment where devices have 24, 48 or...
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10GigE; What will fill the pipes?

Posted by on Apr 23, 2009

It seems to me that every time a new generation of high-capacity networking technology makes its debut, there’s an accompanying list of applications ready to use up all that bandwidth. It’s taken for granted that applications will always find new and creative ways to use up all the available bandwidth. I’ve been disappointed, however, with the list of interesting use cases for 10GigE....
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Will you and 10GigE live happily ever after?

Posted by on Apr 23, 2009

Over the past few decades we’ve seen network technology evolve from 10 Mbit Ethernet to 10 Gbit, with 40 GigE on the horizon and 100 GigE already being discussed. Is the network outpacing the capabilities of the computer? In many ways, yes. One of the dirty little secrets of today’s operating systems is that even in multi-CPU hosts all the interrupts from the network have to be processed on a...
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You think you've got multicast storms now? Just wait for 10 GigE!

Posted by on Apr 22, 2009

Back in the early days of market data systems, 10 MbE networks were the standard. Multicast from the publisher to the subscriber was a clever way to optimize bandwidth to trading desks, because there just wasn’t enough bandwidth to send the data repetitively to each trader. The emergence of 100 MB and 1 GigE networks resolved some of the bandwidth issues, but the delivery bottlenecks just...
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