ADVANCED BusinessLink announces webCluster®, an innovative technology that allows iSeries 400 developers to build highly scalable, distributed web applications.
iSeries 400 sites typically have multiple hosts within their organization, often in different locations. Exchanging data between them for use in a web or traditional application had been limited to file transfers or legacy database visibility technologies (DDM, ODBC, etc). These lack the performance for high volume web applications and raise security issues, particularly when communicating across the Internet. They are also based on moving the database contents to a central system for processing without using the business logic or horsepower already existing on the various systems.
webCluster® links the hosts together so that each system can participate in the processing for a web (or legacy) application. "Performance gains are very significant against the alternatives" says Chris Lategan, BusinessLink CEO. "webCluster® is inherently very fast, even across the Internet. Imagine multiple, distributed hosts, transparently working in parallel, achieving previously unreachable processing throughput for distributed applications."
Existing legacy logic on each host can be fully utilized so that much less data volume is transferred between hosts and results are live rather than one host being constantly out of step with the other.
Industrial strength security makes webCluster® perfect for interconnecting hosts over the Internet. Security features include 128bit SSL, Digital Certificate based Host Identification (bi-directional) and Dynamic Challenge-Response Keys.
webCluster® is 100% compatible with BusinessLink's High Speed Messaging (HSM) transactional messaging middleware. Prerequisites are OS/400 v4r2 and BusinessLink's Strategi middleware. Availability Immediate.
ABOUT ADVANCED BUSINESSLINK
ADVANCED BusinessLink provides e-business solutions that help IBM AS/400 users compete in today's electronic marketplace. The company's products are used by thousands every day in more than 22 countries. Its flagship product, Strategi, provides a powerful array of features to form a growth path from simple AS/400 legacy emulation to the development and deployment of e-business web-based applications.
ADVANCED BusinessLink has been recognized as an IBM All-Star and has an impressive list of firsts, including 100% native AS/400 Java client applet (1998), AS/400 PushFeed technology for easy file transfer (1997), Secure Sockets Layer Java product for advanced security (1997), and Java full-featured client applet for AS/400 (1996)
Founded in Sydney Australia in 1987 as a business consulting firm, ADVANCED BusinessLink is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, USA. The company also has regional offices in Sydney, London and the Netherlands. Telephone is (425) 602-4777; fax (425) 602-4789. Web site: http://www.businesslink.com
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