Why Tervela

Enterprise messaging systems are increasingly failing and putting organizations, their customers and their stakeholders at risk. Tervela is the only company stepping up to solve the messaging challenge head-on with the delivery of the next-generation communications infrastructure: the Message Network™. Many of the world’s most demanding financial services organizations rely on Tervela to ensure continuous, predictable and high-performance operations, even during the most volatile conditions.

 

Messaging systems, whether in the form of Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) or part of an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) package, are the foundational elements for distributed applications and computing. Data-intensive industries such as financial services institutions rely on messaging infrastructure for their critical, day-to-day operations. Information and application architects design enterprise systems with messaging at the core because they realize:

• The underlying network is non-deterministic
• Applications are unique and diverse
• The computing environment continually changes

Because of its intrinsic power and flexibility, enterprise messaging is now a core component of contemporary Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) specifications. But all is not well. Continual and dramatic increases in information volumes, coupled with increasing time-sensitivity of information, are taxing existing messaging systems to the point where they outright fail. When messaging systems go down, companies go down.

 

One blue-chip financial services firm was out of the market for thirty-six hours recently because market data volumes exceeded the capacity of its message systems. However, this is not unusual since most messaging systems are software-based and the volume of information outstrips legacy systems even on the fastest, most powerful servers. Many organizations attempt to partition their messaging information flows, only to find that they have:

• Undermined the flexibility of the messaging capabilities
• Lost operational visibility into the messaging and computing fabric
• Exhausted precious rack space in their data centers

 

The Tervela Advantage

In response, Tervela created the Message Network to solve today’s messaging challenges and provide a powerful platform for emerging computing environments. At the heart of the message network is the Tervela TMX Message Switch™—a purpose-built, hardware-accelerated messaging product that overcomes all the inherent deficiencies of legacy, software-based MOM and EAI messaging systems.

 

The TMX not only follows the natural, evolutionary path of handling enterprise information flows in hardware, but also simultaneously delivers the requisite intelligence to address the unique demands of messaging, networking and computing.

 

The broader message network, in turn, facilitates the easy migration of applications from legacy platforms and supports the development of new ones. Why Tervela? Because the high-performance, data-driven enterprise has changed and so should its messaging infrastructure. To find out more about the Tervela advantage, read further about our products and solutions.