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Solid is the leading supplier of embedded data management, focusing mainly on the telco and network infrastructure markets. Solid delivers an Autonomic Data Management Platform built from a product suite that uniquely combines a simple to use, high-performance, embeddable database engine with robust, carrier-grade availability, and automated intelligent data distribution. Requiring effectively no management, the Solid platform supports the development of applications that are self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-protecting. By providing critical data management functionality, Solid enables infrastructure developers to create advanced applications faster and at lower total cost of ownership.

While the Solid Platform can autonomically manage itself, it needs a higher level manager to take care of the system as a whole when performing tasks that fall outside the Solid view, such as requesting operator intervention to replace downed hardware. The integration of the Solid Platform with the IBM Autonomic Management Engine provides network infrastructure developers with a highly autonomic environment.

"Autonomic computing is not just for the enterprise data center. Market forces are driving carriers to constantly reduce capital and operational expenditures as they build out the IP network infrastructure. Architecting systems so that they automatically take care of themselves is the key to reducing costs.”

- Jussi Harvela, Solid CEO

Solid provides a fast, lightweight, and reliable distributed database management system for network infrastructure applications. With help from the IBM Innovation Center, Solid has integrated its BoostEngine with the IBM autonomic framework, so that the BoostEngine log entries are converted to Common Base Objects which can be interpreted by the IBM Autonomic Management Engine (AME). The combination of Solid and the AME extends IBM’s autonomic reach from the enterprise data center to the network infrastructure, enabling autonomic management of the applications used to run the IP network infrastructure. The combined autonomic solution speeds time to market and reduces the cost of ownership for network applications.