A look at VMware’s vFabric Cloud Application Platform

VMware’s vFabric is a cloud enhancer and accelerator

The vFabric Cloud Application Platform was built by VMware to help move applications and capabilities into the cloud (or cloud friendly architectures). This platform combines their “Spring” development platform to the vFabric service delivery solution.

The vFabric offering is comprised of the following:

• The Spring framework used by millions of developers to build modern applications.
• tc Server: An enterprise version of Apache Tomcat application server that is optimized for Spring and VMware vSphere
• GemFire: A data management platform that provides real-time access to globally distributed data, speeding performance and eliminating database bottlenecks
• Enterprise Ready Server (ERS): An enterprise version of the Apache web server that distributes and balances application load, ensuring application performance
• Hyperic: Proactive performance management solution for transparent visibility into modern applications in physical, virtual, and cloud environments
• RabbitMQ: A cloud-ready messaging service that facilitates communications between apps both inside and outside the datacenter

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