IBM WebSphere Application shatters industry benchmark, powers SOA

IBM announced that its WebSphere Application Server, a key building block for services oriented architecture (SOA), shattered an industry benchmark for scalability and performance by more than 33 percent using technology that costs half the price of the competition.

Noting that businesses rely on application servers to build, run, integrate and manage hundreds or even thousands of software applications, IBM officials explained that this makes high performance and scalability of these application servers critical to the success of a company’s SOA strategy.

“This benchmark delivers an unprecedented, high level of performance in a real-world customer environment,” said Tom Rosamilia, general manager at IBM Application and Integration Middleware.

He also said in a statement that IBM has more than 100,000 WebSphere Application Server customers worldwide and these results confirm why IBM middleware is consistently chosen to power some of the world’s largest and most demanding applications.

He believes that WebSphere Application Server provides the SOA infrastructure to meet customer needs today and for the future.

Rosamilia also pointed out that the total throughput test shows how well the application server scales up as hardware is added; and per processor-core throughput is an excellent measure of price-performance and application server efficiency.

With WebSphere Application Server as the foundation of SOA, customers have a secure deployment environment that can scale and perform at the levels needed for their mission critical applications, according to Rosamilia.

WebSphere is the SOA runtime platform. According to IBM, there are more than 9,000 independent software vendors writing applications on top of WebSphere, providing a broad choice of options for customers.

In addition, IBM states that it continues to build its community of two million WebSphere developers by providing them with the tools and resources to work on a broad range of platforms based on open standards.

According to officials, IBM delivered more than 50 million business transactions per hour, which beats the previous mark held by Oracle in The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.’s (SPEC) SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark, an independent, industry-standard benchmark that measures the scalability and performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers.