Middleware for the distributed application

The function of middleware is to tie together the various components that support your applications: databases, operating systems, and hardware.  Middleware exists so that your developers don’t have to bother creating new database connection drivers, messaging systems, and authentication protocols for every new application they build. 

Today, most applications are distributed – they run on multiple machines.  These distributed applications pose performance, security, and scalability challenges to your business.  They also stand to become a drain on your infrastructure, unless you can automatically provision the resources they require. 

To meet the demands of your distributed applications, a middleware solution should have the following features:

• Performance: A middleware solution that guarantees low-latency over long distances will ensure that your applications function in real-time across sites.
• Security: As your applications share data across a network, your middleware solution must ensure that the data is transported securely.
• Scalability: A distributed application is often a high-volume application, with an unpredictable set of demands.  Your middleware solution should be able to handle bursts of high-volume traffic.
• Global approach to resource provisioning: Your middleware solution should be able to balance the demands of multiple applications, provisioning resources in a way that takes all of your applications into account.  

Tervela’s high performance data fabric is the only middleware solution that supports the performance, security, and scalability requirements of today’s distributed applications. 

Here are two differentiators that you won’t find in any other middleware solution:

• Security is built directly into the Tervela data fabric
• A single Tervela Message Switch can replace 10 – or more – physical middleware servers

We’re curious – how is your company managing your distributed applications?  If you use middleware, how did you choose your middleware solution?