Messaging at lightening speed by Claudia Sonea

On Tuesday Red Hat launched software that combines messaging, real-time and grid capabilities for enterprises like those of the financial services industry that need an OS capable to process messages and transactions in the fast way possible. It is well regarded by some and despised by others. The software is expected to be available early next year on a subscription basis and represents a step forward for the company's so-called "automation" strategy for simplifying how applications are deployed and managed in distributed computing environments. The main goal of automation is to make it as easy as possible for an IT administrator to handle an application anywhere, whether it's hosted or running on a physical server or a virtual environment. In order to test it and get the hang of it, at the end of the week MRG will be released in a public beta version for which users can register online. By comparison with IBM's MQSeries or Tibco Software's Tibco, MRG it is not limited to messaging middleware, but it also refers to real-time capabilities and task-allocation and power-allocation features, therefore it can schedule tasks and provision power for resources running in heterogenous environments, said Bryan Che, a Red Hat product manager. MRG uses technology from two key projects to deliver an open-source infrastructure and one of them is to develop the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard for describing what messages between disparate systems look like and it is made in collaboration with Cisco, Credit Suisse and JP Morgan Chase. The other one is Condor high-throughput computing open-source project out of the University of Wisconsin, which provides a way to efficiently allocate and use the computing capacity of an IT system. Nevertheless William Fellows, a principal analyst at The 451 Group, shows himself doubtful that people will begin ripping and replacing current messaging infrastructure with Red Hat's new software once it's available. Well comparing the benefits such a program offers by combining several technologies in a unique way for IT environments that need OSs to process transactions in microseconds, it may actually lead to such actions. Stay connected and see the result.

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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