Software AG Acquires Terracotta for Cloud, BPM 
Software AG has acquired Terracotta Inc., a provider of in-memory technology. The acquisition will enable Software AG to deliver responsive cloud and BPM solutions, with enterprise-class performance and scalability.
Software AG has acquired Terracotta Inc., a provider of in-memory technology. The acquisition will enable Software AG to deliver cloud and BPM solutions, with enterprise-class performance and scalability.
Software AG’s cloud offerings will be built on Terracotta’s in-memory processing. Because in-memory data access is up to 1,000 times faster than database access, Software AG CTO Wolfram Jost, in a statement. The acquisition also gives Software AG access to a large and thriving open source community, he added.
“The integration of Terracotta’s technology with our product portfolio is a major step in ensuring that our customers can fully benefit from the convergence of cloud computing, the mobile web, complex event processing and real-time, multi-party collaboration through unprecedented levels of performance and scalability,” Jost added. Software AG will also continue to support Terracotta’s Open Source Communities to further develop the in-memory technology, he said.
Software AG will use Terracotta’s in-memory technology in the Software AG products so customers will now have the most advanced technology solution available to analyze vast amounts of data more efficiently and cost-effectively to get the necessary business information—in real time—to make the best business decisions, according to officials.
Among Terracotta’s core technologies are:
Terracotta Enterprise Ehcache is designed to break scalability barriers and performance bottlenecks without application redesign. Based on the de facto caching standard for enterprise Java, Enterprise Ehcache snaps into enterprise applications for instant, 10X faster speed and on-demand, unlimited scale out. It also comes with a console to present stats, configuration, and cache contents of all your running caches and feed key core metrics directly into standard systems management tools.
Terracotta Cloud Tools, which provide a simple way to take standard enterprise Java apps and scale them out in cloud environments. The tools manage all the aspects of server creation, software provisioning, and configuration of the Terracotta scaling layer. The Terracotta scaling infrastructure manages common scale and HA concerns such as web sessions clustering, database offload through caching (using Ehcache - both as Hibernate 2nd level cache, and as a direct cache), and the clustering of common application services like the Quartz job scheduler.
The Terracotta tooling framework can manage the provisioning and scale-out of enterprise apps in clouds, and are architected to work with any cloud infrastructure. They currently work with leading Xen-based clouds Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus. Terracotta’s reference application is written in Java using the Spring framework, a standard container (Jetty or Tomcat), and a standard database (Hypersonic, Postgres or MySQL.)
Terracotta CEO Amit Pandey said the acquisition by Software AG will offer customers of both companies a comprehensive, scalable software stack that supports the level of performance needed for private and public cloud infrastructures – without compromising Terracotta’s open source commitment. “Both Terracotta and Software AG are committed to further investment in our technologies and preserving the vibrant open source communities of Ehcache and Quartz,” Pandey said in the statement.
Software AG expects to release the first combined products in the fourth quarter, 2011. The company will roll out its cloud based platform-as-a-service in 2012.
