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News Release from: Themis Computer | Subject: Quorum
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 April 2006
Software manages real-time systems
Quorum is a policy-based system that performs automated closed loop management of application QoS and allocation of resources for real-time systems.
Themis Computer has developed Quorum as 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
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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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".
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"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 realised 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, multivendor environment of software, servers, switches and storage", Kehret added.
Quorum provides users four major benefits.
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.
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.
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.
By enabling flexible utilisation 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 subsecond response time.
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; and 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 is available now, with single processor pricing below $1500, in OEM quantities.
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