Integration and business process management firm Tibco Software Inc has made its first foray into cloud computing, launching into beta an application delivery platform for enterprise cloud deployments it is calling Silver.
“Enterprises can overcome the impediments to widespread enterprise adoption of cloud computing,” the company said in a statement, naming them as issues such as availability, security, integration, governance and scalability.
The company said its development had addressed many of the questions raised by enterprise architects about the cloud compute proposition: namely, who is going to have access to my data, can I use components from my old applications and will my business SLA’s on the application hold?
A cloud application built on top of Tibco Silver is done so in a loosely-coupled fashion, so service developers do not have to do any plumbing or communication code. The platform also provides a set of language containers that give architects the flexibility to construct composite applications using services developed in various programming languages.
The familiar Tibco enterprise service bus is used for integration and mediation between services in the cloud, as well as between the cloud and internal data centres.
Silver deployments have a built-in agent that constantly monitors the performance and health of the services, track business and infrastructure SLAs.
These can also take appropriate corrective action to grow and shrink capacity based on usage of the application.
The company describes this aspect as a self aware Elastic fabric that automatically grows and shrinks the entire application or specific components that are a part of the application based on application or infrastructure usage.
Silver will be offered as beta on June 30 2009, Tibco has confirmed.
