SpringSource, a division of VMware and a provider of Java application infrastructure and management, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GemStone Systems, a privately held provider of enterprise data management offerings based in Beaverton, Oregon.
SpringSource said that the acquisition will advance its and VMware vision of providing the infrastructure necessary for emerging cloud-centric applications, with built-in availability, scalability, security and performance guarantees. These modern applications require new approaches to data management, given they will be deployed across elastic, highly scalable, geographically distributed architectures.
In addition, the company said that the addition of GemStone’s data management offerings allows customers to be able to make the right data available to the right applications at the right time within a distributed cloud environment.
SpringSource plans to fully support GemStone product line which includes GemFire Enterprise, a distributed data platform that puts data where it is needed across a network to remove latency. Other GemStone products include GemFire SQLFabric, a memory-oriented SQL data management platform and GemStone/S, a platform for running distributed Smalltalk applications.
Rod Johnson, general manager of SpringSource division of VMware, said: “Data management technologies are fundamental to the creation of applications, and with the rise of virtualisation and cloud computing, the manner in which applications need to access data is evolving.
“Cloud computing is a distributed deployment model, and for that reason, caching and data accessibility are of far greater strategic importance than before. We are acquiring and will integrate into the SpringSource portfolio a well-regarded set of high-performing data management solutions with GemStone.”
