Multi-Site Integration
The Challenges:
You can use any integration solution to integrate services in a single data center. However, if you extend the integration across highly distributed environments, such as integrating regional offices to a head office, partners in a supply chain or different government agencies, solutions designed for LAN operations become unreliable, slow, and hard to manage. When you try to deploy these infrastructures outside their intended use, costs quickly mount and reliability and performance become very difficult to manage. It becomes too hard or impossible to automate application rollouts and updates to multiple sites or departments. When you have hundreds or thousands of sites, these costs become prohibitive. Even when integrating a few departments that cross security and management domains, updates are cumbersome without centralized tools for managing distributed deployments. That means that process change or scaling of infrastructure requires a lot of error‐prone, manual configurations. When different IT departments are involved, it's very hard to get this coordination to work.
The Solution:
The Progress Multi-site Integration solution powered by Progress® Sonic ESB® excels in those integration scenarios that require the integration and management of dozens, hundreds or even thousands of end‐points. The solution includes management tools that empower you to automate the consistent, reliable and repeatable installation and configuration of SOA infrastructure to remote, unattended locations from anywhere on your network. This reduces the time for IT operations to deploy to a remote site from days to minutes, even for unattended remote sites. Your initial deployment costs and ongoing management costs are reduced, and you’re able to finally enjoy the flexibility and agility promised by SOA because you can change the deployment of your infrastructure easily, at any time. Additional features of the Multi-site Integration solution include:
- Cross‐cluster JMS protocols are optimized for high‐latency characteristics of WAN connections commonly found in distributed deployments, and provide error‐free performance over frame‐relay, satellite links and dial-up connections.
- Manage service orchestrations that span network segments, business units, and partners.
- Extend message broker clusters across geographic and security boundaries transparently with support for all messaging interaction patterns.
- Management spans security domains and firewalls to deliver seamless integration across organizational boundaries and to remote sites.
- Allows extension of the network to additional LAN segments and remote sites without manual gateway reconfiguration.
- Provides distributed deployment with centralized control, allowing distributed integration services, service orchestration, and intelligent routes to be defined and deployed to any location, from any location
. - Remote domains can selectively provide security access to local resources for integration into the federated environment. Remote domains can create and deploy their own integration projects without outside intervention.
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