TransLattice Targets Application Outages

Cloud platform newcomer TransLattice, which geographically distributes and accelerates applications for enterprise, cloud and hybrid environments, on 25 July released version 2.0 of its Java-based platform.

Translattice’s IP aims to improve availability and performance of transactional applications for both on-premises and cloud environments, chief executive Frank Huerta told eWEEK. The package provides resilience, scalability, policy control and compliance – plus increased application performance – to global and mobile users, Huerta said.

Outages

“Outages can cost enterprises as much as $5,000 (£3,000) a minute, and they can have an enormous impact on a company’s reputation and brand,” Huerta said. “TransLattice’s goal is to knock 60 to 70 percent off the cost of running global data and applications.”

TransLattice demonstrates a departure from the centralised application stack model, which has become increasingly complicated, cumbersome and costly, Huerta said. Traditional installations use many layers of infrastructure, requiring significant integration work, and this complexity makes it difficult to achieve high levels of availability. These centralised deployments are vulnerable to outages that can bring an organisation’s applications down for hours or days.

In contrast, the geographically distributed TransLattice Application Platform architecture ensures that organisations can deliver consistently available applications and data, leveraging resources on-premises, in the cloud, or both, Huerta said.

TransLattice’s Application Platform, according to Huerta:

• Provides built-in resilience for Java applications due to the intelligent, distributed placement of data on multiple nodes. If a node failure occurs, the rest of the cluster will be unaffected and users connected to the offline node will be automatically redirected to a working node.
• Delivers elastic throughput and storage capacity, via horizontal scale-out of commodity servers and cloud instances. This reduces the costly over-provisioning of infrastructure and allows organisations to quickly scale to meet changing business requirements.
• Equips organisations to meet varied availability goals and data jurisdiction compliance requirements for both on-premises and cloud deployments through policy controls for redundancy and data location.
• Anticipates users’ application needs and makes data available where and when it is needed, improving response time and productivity.
• Costs far less than traditional application infrastructure deployments, while offering superior resilience, greater elasticity and better performance for users.

“There have been a lot of semi-enterprise, somewhat-distributed computing initiatives in the last few years, but none have really addressed core enterprise applications with needs for transactional rigor,” said Anne MacFarland of MacFarland Consulting.

“TransLattice’s Lattice Computing architecture has the potential to fundamentally change the economics of data and application access in what are often very expensive applications. This approach promises to improve an enterprise’s business global agility and resiliency using a distributed deployment model and simple scalability.”