Hitachi and Kabira Technologies have formed an alliance to co-develop a Linux-based high performance, highly reliable, transaction processing system on Hitachi’s integrated service platform ‘BladeSymphony.’ Through this collaboration, Hitachi and Kabira plan to deliver the world’s first large data set, real-time processing, mainframe class, mission critical system on Linux. The Hitachi and Kabira alliance builds on the escalating market growth of network services such as mobile payment, smart card, credit interchange and IP telephony. Increasing transaction volumes over high-speed networks require a high-speed, highly reliable open transaction platform. Businesses require rapid development, deployment and provisioning of new services to win in these new highly competitive markets. Under the terms of the agreement, the collaboration combines Hitachi’s mission critical hardware platform expertise and Kabira’s real-time transaction software expertise. The joint solution will be optimized for Hitachi’s Itanium 2-based 8way scalable blade server (BladeSymphony) supporting real-time transaction processing and non-stop high availability built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Increased transaction performance is achieved with the combination of Kabira’s memory resident transaction processing architecture and the large memory capacity (256GB/chassis) and high-speed server blade interconnect architecture of Hitachi’s ‘BladeSymphony’. The joint offering supports both “scale-up” growth for large point systems and “scale-out” growth for large distributed systems. Hitachi and Kabira will further co-develop industry specific components for markets demanding performance and high reliability.
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