Paremus Service Fabric - the Executive Perspective

The Executive Perspective

Simply 'keeping the lights on' typically costs an organization a staggering 80% of its annual IT budget. Meanwhile, ongoing maintenance and enhancements account for up to 90% of an application's total lifetime cost.

While cloud computing may be part of the answer, there is little point in implementing a strategy that fails to directly address the cost of maintaining and evolving applications.

There are no silver-bullets, there are no quick fixes, but there is a solution

Quite simply, applications need to be modular and your cloud runtime needs to understand this modularity. Modularity enables rapid software development, rapid application assembly and ultimately promotes code re-use. OSGi™ is the industries’ standard for achieving modularity for your Java-based applications.

The Paremus Service Fabric, an OSGi-based and OSGi aware ‘Platform as a Service’ (PaaS), understands how to deploy, maintain and evolve these modular applications.

Realizing that business agility, service availability, governance and operational simplicity are interrelated, the Service Fabric has also been design from the ground up to direct addresses these concerns:

	•	Business Agility
		The simplest to the most sophisticated of applications can be easily deployed, scaled and upgraded. The Service Fabric itself can be rapidly expanded or contracted, and new Service Fabric instances can be rapidly created. Such capabilities allow your organization to rapidly respond to the most volatile market conditions and new business opportunities.

	•	Operational Expenditure & Efficiency
		Replacing traditional high availability/clustering, software provisioning, grid computing, monitoring, and configuration management solutions, the Paremus Service Fabric provides a simple, cohesive, cost effective runtime. Your operations team can easily remove under-utilized or expensive legacy hardware from, and/or add new more cost effective hardware to, each running Service Fabric.

	•	Service Availability
		The Service Fabric manages and maintains your applications and insulates them from hardware failure. Application patches can be applied in seconds, and perhaps more importantly, an application can be returned to a previous well-known state just as rapidly. The Service Fabric is self-maintaining; dynamically adapting to planned or unplanned changes of the physical resources available to it.

	•	Governance
		At each point in time, all software entities deployed to the Service Fabric are fully defined including; their versions, the application to which they belong and the services they are allowed to interact with. At each point in time your production environment is fully described. Meanwhile, ability to deploy, starts/stops or change an application is controlled and audited by the Service Fabric’s role-based management.

Leveraging the OSGi Alliance and OMG/DDS industry standards, the Paremus Service Fabric helps you avoid future technology lock-in. Priced aggressively, the Paremus Service Fabric offers immediate CAPEX savings, but more importantly, enables your organization to realize significant and sustainable OPEX reductions. As the industry’s most advanced private Java™ Cloud platform, the Paremus Service Fabric directly addresses the agility, efficiency and complexity issues that continue to plague the modern enterprise.