Xeround Intelligent Data Grid™ Suite

The Xeround Intelligent Data Grid^TM or IDG^TM Suite is the only database virtualization solution that unifies data across multiple networks and businesses so customers can reduce total cost of ownership and deliver new services to market faster. Unlike point products or custom solutions, Xeround's scalable, reusable, easy-to-implement distributed architecture dramatically increases the efficiency of existing infrastructures.

Xeround has a strong focus on the telecommunications industry
As the telecommunications industry transforms from network-centric to subscriber-centric models, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are redefining their business models to offer unprecedented personalized and flexible services. This has put a new set of requirements on their data management infrastructure and demands a new means to manage subscriber data. Xeround IDG™ is optimized for such requirements and delivers, uncompromised, six key requirements necessary for entity-centric data management:

• Unlimited scale-out performance
• Continuous availability and resiliency
• Guaranteed low read and write latency
• Unified data model with network and geographical distribution
• Native industry standard interfaces and transaction handling
• Optimized for COTS blade architectures and near zero administration

Xeround IDG™ is available in three software packages
Each of our software packages can be combined to deliver the robust solution your applications require.

• Xeround IDG™ Core: the foundation to manage all entity-centric data.
• Xeround IDG™ Unify: virtualization and federation services across existing application data stores.
• Xeround IDG™ Sync: replication and synchronization to backend databases such as Oracle and MySQL.

Unlimited scale-out performance

Xeround IDG™ is truly unique in its linear and online scalability. This is accomplished with transparent virtual partitions that use networking address management concepts to distribute data. As a result, Xeround IDG™ scales without encountering any performance bottlenecks. Much the same way an IP-network scales by simply adding additional resources.

Xeround IDG™ allows for predictable performance in terms of operations per second and data capacity support. This returns a fixed and consistent cost per entity as capacity is added or removed. In addition, this allows for horizontal scale out or in to meet individual business plans and capacity requirements. A scaling event can be done completely online across nodes, geographical sites or data centers without any service disruption.

Xeround performed an official run of the Nokia Network Database Benchmark (NDB)
This test showcased Xeround's industry-leading results. For more information on the NDB benchmark, download the white paper (Link to resources)

• Tenfold linear scale out, scaling from 10 million to 100 million online subscribers with no downtime or performance degradation.
• Average application client latency of 2.17 milliseconds supporting real-time service levels well within the service level agreement (SLA) defined for this benchmark.
• 114,556 qualified transactions per second sustained over a user population of 100 million online subscribers.
• Total hardware and operating system cost of US $250,000 resulting in an exceptionally low cost-per-subscriber and per transaction. [top of page]

Continuous availability and resiliency

Xeround IDG™ offers n-way high availability models with a robust set of features and can configure the number of data replicas to meet each application's requirements for availability and resiliency. Xeround IDG™ has no single point of failure and is resilient to failures of any of its software components across data grid nodes, sites, networking elements, external data sources and other virtualization components.

With a unique self-healing architecture, Xeround IDG™ detects a faulty data node and automatically redistributes its responsibilities to the remaining active data nodes with no service disruption and minimal performance degradation. Xeround IDG™ also offers a spectrum of data persistency, backup and recovery services. [top of page]

Guaranteed low read and write latency

Xeround IDG™ can guarantee predictable response times and low latency for data reads, writes and updates across the entire system. Reads and writes are processed in the same manner and are non-locking in nature. Unique to the industry, data managed by Xeround IDG™ can be read and updated at the same speed. Xeround IDG™ has been engineered to ensure that as a database scales, response time and latency remain unaffected even during unforeseen failures and outages. [top of page]

Unified data model with network and geographical distribution

Xeround IDG™ exposes a unified logical data model "virtualizing" the underlying physical data sources. This principal offers unique data modeling capabilities, enabling a single unified logical data model composed of multiple physical data sources with different data primitives (relational, hierarchical, object) supporting multiple southbound data access protocols. Xeround IDG™ also supports multiple northbound data access protocols, enabling a diverse array of applications to access the "virtualized" data model in its native data access protocol.

With the Xeround IDG™ unified data model, it is possible to enable the integration, into a single view, of some of the information which resides in data centers along with real-time data found in the network. This feature greatly increases the ability to combine diverse entity-centric data to enable converged applications and create new services.

Xeround IDG™ has also an automatic data roaming capability
This allows data distribution across any number of sites while retaining central provisioning. An entity's data can "roam" as needed, moving transparently throughout the network to maintain the utmost performance. This feature is a key enabler to disaster recovery capabilities ensuring that a network is not left vulnerable even if a site goes down. [top of page]

Native industry standard interfaces and transaction handling

All data in Xeround IDG™ is managed using an entity-centric data model which merges SQL, LDAP and XML schemas into one converged data storage. Xeround IDG™ offers n-way native data access enabling open access using SQL, LDAP and XML. This capability ensures an easy data migration process as existing applications continue to direct native data access calls unaffected. Xeround IDG™ removes the complexity associated with maintaining data in different formats and retains real-time access to all the data regardless of the interface. Xeround IDG™ is optimized for complex multi-operation (ACID compliant) transactions, which is key to supporting application business logic. [top of page]

Optimized for COTS multi-core architectures and near-zero administration

Xeround IDG™ has been optimized to run on multi-core commercial-of-the-shelf servers and can distribute its services between data grid systems cores. This ensures the ability for unlimited pay-as-you-grow utilization of a server's processing power. It also comes with a number of self-tuning capabilities to ensure that all functions are automatic and require near-zero administration even in the event of a failure. This translates to superior cost performance measured in capital and operating expenses savings. [top of page]