Tibco’s Bold Move Towards Cloud Application Delivery
Today the virtual and cloud resource manager DataSynapse was bought by Tibco for $28m. This is in accordance with its new Tibco Silver cloud application delivery platform, as DataSynapse is expected to be an integral part of that particular software.
The heart of Tibco’s software is still integration, specifically with respect to financial services companies and telcos. In June, the vendor laid out plans for a cloud application delivery platform, Tibco Silver designed to support the allocation of cloud resources as a reaction to the ups and downs of application needs. Tibco’s complex event processing (CEP) engine powers the software and manages highs and lows in the applications’ infrastructure needs by invoking or retracting resources such that service level agreements are satisfied.
DataSynapse’s software should couple conveniently with this directive. GridServer, FabricServer and Federator are three products developed by DataSynapse, a company founded in the year 2000. DataSynapse has dedicated itself to creating specialized software for scheduling resources and moving workloads between the grid, virtual servers and public cloud environments. The company has also developed VersaVision: a dashboard for metering, chargeback and service utilization reporting.