Xeround Has Head in Cloud with Intelligent Data Grid

Toward its goal of enabling cloud computing infrastructures, Xeround, Inc., released a new version of its Intelligent Data Grid database virtualization software this week.

The new release broadens the types of architectures its solution can support and builds on management capabilities designed to reduce the total cost of ownership.

IDG Release 2.8 provides data management within a cloud and data federation between clouds in order to unify data across multiple networks and businesses.

Communications service providers will need real-time access to the growing amount of data they are accumulating across disparate data stores across their networks as well as partners’ and third party networks for the purposes of service creation and personalization. Database virtualization software can tie this distributed data and bring it together into a single record. Xerounds latest version extends its reach form in-network data management to networks outside the CSP’s and into different architectures.

“We spent a lot of time with customers understanding how our solution can be adaptable within their environment as a reusable architecture to provide consistent data access management within their infrastructure,” said Charlotte Yarkoni, CEO, Xeround. “[Now] with Version 2.8, we’ve enhanced our product to support a greater number of architectures and added more flexibility for managing the system.”

This means the Xeround IDG can unify data across multiple networks and businesses in real time and make that information available across a company’s entire ecosystem of network elements and applications.

“We found our value proposition continues to grow because not only do we solve internal problems around reducing the complexity of a customer’s infrastructure, we extend that where they need to interact with a lot of their partners,” Yarkoni said.

“Xeround IDG provides the ability to support multiple data types in one solution, which accelerates its ability to launch new services for our customers and reduce infrastructure costs,” said Ilan Alter, director, Cellular Applications at Pelephone, Israel’s first cellular company. “Xeround has become a trusted partner, consistently delivering innovative technology along with superior customer support.”

IDG is both an evolution and a prelude. Yarkoni said it lays the foundation for a bigger release coming in the middle of next year. For now, the key enhancements to version 2.8 are as follows:

It allows for real-time access to data regardless of where it physically exists. It provides support for multiple data access protocols and also has a flexible self-healing architecture that allows for continuity of service even in the event of a failure.

The product uses flexible data distribution and replication modeling, which increases the types of architectures supported and allows customers to choose the optimal architecture for their application requirements. It also has persistent storage enhancements that improve write-to-disk capabilities and ensures transaction processing continues are uninterrupted, even if part of the system is down or in recovery mode.

IDG’s expanded SQL and transaction support are designed to allow processing of diverse data access sets and usage patterns including real-time, near real-time and full table-scan querying patterns. It includes support for multiple applications updating the same data record.

Yarkoni said a lot of effort went into improving manageability. The new version has a GUI-based System Health Monitor module for reporting point failures and understanding overall system health across a distributed environment.

“You don’t have expensive or complicated overhead around replication or synchronization because we handle that internally under the covers of our software,” she said.

Xeround IDG version 2.8 is currently in beta and will be made generally available to the public by the end of January 2009.