TIBCO Grid Federator
TIBCO Grid Federator™ provides a demand-based, policy-driven mechanism for sharing grid engines between different installations of TIBCO GridServer®. Many of GridServer's customers have independent grid environments: some segment grids by business units or applications (e.g., a risk grid, a pricing grid, etc.); some segment by application lifecycle (e.g., a development grid, a test grid and a production grid). Regardless of how you segment your grid environments, resource-sharing enables grid customers to improve service performance, run more grid cycles with less hardware, and improve the utilization of grid resources.
- Improve the utilization and add more services of the grid without having to add engines
- Better align resource allocation to insure that services meet expected SLA targets
- Lower hardware requirements and infrastructure spending even as they grow their grid service portfolio
The key innovation that TIBCO has delivered in Federator is the ability to set demand-based polices to govern resource-sharing across grid environments. Federator provides a policy framework that analyzes the number of pending tasks on a grid and the average task completion time for a given set of services to make real-time decisions about how grid engines are shared across a grid environment.
Key Features of TIBCO Grid Federator for Sharing Grid Engines
- Real-time, policy-driven framework for moving resources based on the demand and performance of grid service
- Granular control over the actions taken as demand-based policies are reviewed in real time, including migration and release actions
- Advanced control of grid-service prioritization and how grid engines are allocated to meet service-performance goals
