Tibco pushing new cloud application delivery system

03.06.2009
Tibco on Wednesday is set to unveil Silver, a platform aimed at large enterprises that want to develop and deploy applications in cloud-computing environments, but still harbor uncertainties about that model.

Large enterprises are intrigued by the cloud model, but have been slow to embrace it because they desire factors such as a strong underlying governance framework and the ability to set SLAs (service level agreements), said Ram Menon, executive vice president, worldwide marketing.

Silver is an attempt to provide those capabilities in a single package. It continues Tibco's emphasis on composite applications, which are strung together from multiple components or "services" that may be written in multiple languages and running on a variety of computer systems.

Silver includes a toolset for combining and orchestrating services, an ESB (enterprise service bus) that allows services to communicate with each other, and a governance framework for setting security policies around services.

A system that employs Tibco's CEP (complex event processing) software scales application resources up and down in response to demand, thereby helping handle SLA requirements.

To start, Silver will have support for Java, C++, Ruby, .NET and Spring.