Themis Computer Announces Quorum Automated Management Software to
Monitor and Control Distributed Computing Systems and Applications in Real-Time
Software tailored for the automated management
of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), applications and hardware
resources in real-time mission critical environments.
FREMONT, California -- April
4, 2006 --- Themis Computer announced Quorum™, its distributed
computing resource management software for mission critical
applications. Quorum is a policy-based system that performs
automated closed loop management of application QoS and
allocation of resources for real-time systems.
Themis’ Quorum is a distributed computing resource
manager software system for the automated management of Service
Level Agreements (SLAs), applications and hardware resource
in real-time, mission critical distributed systems. Standards-based,
Quorum supports a wide variety of industry standard platforms
including Sun® Solaris™, Linux®, Microsoft® Windows® and
LynxOS® servers, as well as various network switches
and SMI-compliant Storage Area Networks.
“Themis’ Quorum helps CIOs and OEMs drive down
total cost of ownership, for Mission Critical IT resources
and infrastructure. When Themis first started the development
of its Slice-TM scalable computing initiative, it was painfully
clear that there were no real-time computing resource managers
that could automatically manage quality of service for legacy
applications,” stated William E. Kehret, President
of Themis Computer. “We also realized the need to provide
standards driven API’s for forward looking, enhanced
application monitoring and control. Quorum uniquely addresses
this market need and integrates well with other managers
in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor environment of software,
servers, switches and storage,” Mr. Kehret added.
Quorum provides users four major benefits:
1. Automated monitoring and management of SLAs and Application
Quality of Service (AQoS). By dynamically allocating computing
resources and performing closed loop monitoring of application
performance, Quorum maintains system performance under conditions
of varying load and resource availability.
2. Real-time resource and application provisioning. Systems
are dynamically reconfigured to meet changes in a rapidly
changing environment. Policy based resource allocation tunes
a system to the mission at hand. This is done in real-time
without operator intervention.
3. High system reliability and availability. Quorum enables
a flexible, highly reliable system by treating the entire
computing system as a pool of computers where any computer
can serve as a backup or spare for fault tolerance. Quorum
will quickly replace a failing resource from the available
pool.
4. Reduced acquisition, operation, and maintenance costs. By enabling flexible utilization of computing resources,
Quorum reduces the hardware requirements for high availability
systems and its automated, policy based operation reduces
the need for operator intervention.
The Quorum software provides flexible, policy-based, automated
decision-making for monitoring and managing mission critical
systems. It simplifies the daily management of complex applications
by using flexible user-defined policies to manage application
and system performance in real-time with sub-second response
time.
Software Architecture
An automated, policy-based system for the closed-loop management
of real time systems, Quorum supports a Manager-of-Managers
architecture that allows a distributed system to be hierarchically
connected to a higher-level manager. In this way, a distributed
system can be viewed as a single entity, and can be integrated
as a Quorum managed asset within a larger Quorum managed
system.
Themis Quorum automates three systems-management processes:
Monitor - monitors, models and predicts how much computing
power applications require to meet AQoS objectives.
Decide – Determines the resource configuration
and then allocates available resources from server pools
or from
lower-priority applications to applications with the higher-priority
applications as defined by user-specified policies.
Act - configures and reconfigures servers, software, storage,
network devices and clusters to implement the requested
application environments
Quorum is a standards-based system built on top of the “Common
Information Model / Web Based Enterprise Management” (CIM/WBEM),
a DMTF standard. CIM/WBEM provides object-oriented schemas
for a wide variety of devices and uses XML to encode CIM
objects and transport them via standard http(s) protocols.
Quorum is also fully compatible with SNMP devices and is
extensible to new devices via either SNMP or CIM/WBEM
Quorum incorporates flexible, policy-based, automated decision-making.
It maintains user specified levels of AQoS without operator
intervention. Quorum provides:
•
Protection against hardware & software faults with minimal
operator workload
• A standards-based instrumentation API for publishing
internal application performance metrics to provide more
sophisticated
AQoS control
• Features to enable monitoring of AQoS for legacy applications
• Policy-based resource allocation
Other significant features include:
• Dynamic system configurations which can be changed
on the fly
•
Device discovery for new hardware
•
Integration with 3rd party management systems through CIM
•
Customizable Visualization Layer with a Java API for OEM-specific
look and feel.
Quorum Price and Availability
Quorum is available now, with single processor pricing below
$1,500, in OEM quantities. Please contact factory for evaluation
software or for volume order requirements.
See Themis’ new Quorum and Slice solutions
at LinuxWorld in Boston, MA April 4-6 in Booth #836 and
at Sea-Air-Space
2006 Expo in Washington, DC in Booth #4001 April 4-6.
About Themis Computer
Themis Computer is a leading developer and supplier of high
performance VME and Compact PCI single-board computers, as
well as systems for mission-critical telecommunications, military/aerospace,
and industrial embedded applications. Themis provides open
standards-based embedded computing platforms that support the
Solaris™, Linux®, and Windows® operating systems.
Themis' products incorporate features designed to ensure high
reliability and availability while reducing the risks of failure caused by
extreme environments. An ISO 9001 certified company, Themis
Computer practices Total Quality Management (TQM) in all areas
of its business, from engineering and manufacturing to customer
service. Themis Computer is headquartered in Fremont, California
and offers worldwide service and support. For more information
please visit www.themis.com or
email: info@themis.com.
For more information, please contact:
THEMIS COMPUTER US
William Hansen
47200 Bayside Parkway
Fremont, California 94538
Phone: (510) 252-0870
Fax: (510) 490-5529
Email: bhansen@themis.com
info@themis.com
Website: www.themis.com
In Europe contact:
THEMIS COMPUTER EUROPE
5, rue Irène Joliot-Curie
38320 Eybens, France
Phone: +33 (0) 476-14-77-86
Fax: +33 (0) 476-14-77-89
Email: europe@themis.com
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Themis, the Themis logo and Quorum are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Themis Computer. All other trademarks
are trademarks of their respective companies.
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