HiveCreator Benefits

The promise of Hive Computing is that it enables businesses and other organizations to construct mission critical computing solutions that are simultaneously survivable, scalable, and affordable.

Survivable

A Hive is able to survive the failure of any number of the individual Workers who make up the Hive.

• Available
  A Hive is made up of large numbers of individual Workers, meaning that it can survive the failure of any number of components. The availability of a Hive is also enhanced by the fact that these Workers can be geographically dispersed around a building, city, country, or even the world. The only requirement is that all Workers are on the same logical network.
• Reliable
  All Requests sent to a Hive are backed up on one other Worker. As a result, should that Primary Worker fail for any reason, the Backup is able to pick up the processing of that Request. More importantly, all of this is done without the knowledge of the Client Application.
• Predictable
  One of the distinguishing characteristics of a Hive is a feature called TimeSync, which gives a Hive a sense of time. This allows a Hive to monitor the processing of all Requests and recover any that may have run too long on a particular Worker.

Scalable

One problem with existing solutions like mainframes, fault tolerant computers, application servers, and conventional supercomputers is that, while they are nominally scalable, the reality is that those solutions are typically only scaled in large, expensive, and infrequent leaps.

In contrast, a Hive is designed to be quickly and easily scaled.

In a Hive, new Workers can be added at any moment. Because of a feature called Assimilation, all the administrator has to do is plug the new Worker into network. From that point on, the Hive will take over the responsibility for installing the O/S, HiveCreator, and application software on that Worker. Once that new Worker boots up, it will then automatically integrate itself into the Collective Intelligence of the Hive.

This provides two important benefits. First, it means a Hive can scale in a near-linear manner. Second, and more importantly, it means a Hive is extreme flexible; its size can be tuned to meet the exact needs of the organizations at the moment. No longer do organizations have to buy expensive systems to handle growth that may not happen for years.

Affordable

HiveCreator was designed from the start to address the critical issue of Total Cost Of Ownership. As a result, HiveCreator enables businesses and other organizations to realize 90% reductions in the acquisition cost and 50% reductions in the development and operational costs of mission critical solutions.

• Low Acquisition Costs
  A Hive can be built using inexpensive, commodity computers running a wide variety of operating systems. This allows businesses and organizations to take advantage of the rising performance and falling prices.
• Low Development Costs
  A Hive automatically handles things like load balancing, fail-over, and thread management allowing application developers to focus on their algorithms.
• Low Operational Costs
  A Hive is self-maintaining and reduces the amount of work an IT professional must perform.