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Alfresco Enterprise Network Release Candidate Announced at JBoss World Barcelona
Oct 10, 2005
Alfresco Integrates to JBoss Cache, JBoss Application Server and Hibernate for Leading Enterprise Scalability and Availability
LONDON October 10th, 2005 Alfresco, Inc., the first provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that it is making available the Alfresco Enterprise Network Release Candidate at JBoss World Barcelona. This integrates closely to the JBoss Cache, JBoss Application Server and Hibernate utilizing the underlying industry leading scalability and high availability features. Alfresco is led by former Documentum executives including the co-founder.
“Fifteen years of experience building content management systems has allowed us to know what is required to get mission critical scalability and availability,” said John Newton, chief technology officer, Alfresco, Inc. “We recognized that JBoss had the industry leading tools we needed”.
Alfresco utilizes JBoss Cache's ability to distribute and maintain data caches making it possible to build large scale systems that outperform traditional Enterprise Content Management that were built on client-server database systems. This allows Alfresco to deliver cached data at in memory speeds. Alfresco also utilizes the clustering, failover and load balancing facilities of the JBoss Application Server to increase scalability. Content models are more complex than traditional relational database tables. Alfresco utilizes Hibernate to control the content management schema. Alfresco complements these products with content replication and use of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) to integrate to different, configurable authentication systems.
“JBoss looks to work with partners that have a common focus and understanding of mission critical, scalable, highly-available systems,” said Sacha Labourey, Switzerland, General Manager, JBoss Europe. “We see Alfresco providing complementary industry leading Enterprise Content Management technology to the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System”.
Key features of the Alfresco Enterprise Network are:
- Single sign-on through Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) across the JBoss Portal and portlets
- Fail-Safe content services
- Massively parallel content grid
- Distributed high availability within the data centre and between disparate data centres
Alfresco will be showcasing this product at JBoss World Barcelona, October 10th to 12th 2005. The product is available from http://www.alfrescosoftware.com
About Alfresco
Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit http://www.alfrescosoftware.com
Media Contacts:
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Alfresco
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