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Application Frameworks: Scalable, High-Performance Infrastructure for Data-Intensive Service Providers

• Tags:
• infrastructure management,
• volumes,
• processing,
• providers

Overview As data volumes continue to mount, and the role of information derived from data plays an increasingly important role to businesses everywhere, data service providers—service bureaus, marketing service providers, market research companies and list service companies—find themselves in high demand. But with this demand come huge data volumes and short processing windows that focuses pressure squarely on the hardware, software and personnel that deliver the company’s products. The strain is showing: Instead of focusing on new services—the future of the company—data service providers are redirecting resources simply to maintain existing contracts. Thin profit margins are getting thinner.

In an attempt to cut costs and preserve profitability, leading data service providers are re-architecting services infrastructures to streamline the development, delivery and maintenance of services. And increasingly, data service providers are rebuilding with scalable application frameworks. The reasons for this are clear: Not only do these frameworks supply the processing power and scalability required to drive big-data applications, but they also provide a single development and deployment environment that supports code reuse. The effect is to inject scalability into both application (by enabling them to handle more data) and application development (by enabling developers to assemble applications from existing code).

Torrent’s Orchestrate is an application framework engineered to deliver scalability and repeatability to the largest data service providers. Orchestrate consists of a powerful application framework optimized for processing big data volumes in parallel, suites of clip-on, reusable components containing fundamental application logic, and complete support for the development of custom components by the data service provider. In production at some of the world’s largest data service providers, Orchestrate has reduced service implementation times from months to

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