With Virtualization today you are required to have a library of server images that you bring up and down depending on the changing demands in your organization. Perhaps during peak times you have more of the transaction processing servers online, but at night it is better to have more servers working on batch jobs. With virtualization you are able to have much higher utilization of your infrastructure, therefore saving you money on the management and time spent on server provisioning.

Phurnace Deliver™ takes those same value propositions and brings them to the application layer. With Phurnace Deliver™ you can dynamically allocate applications to the up and running app servers as well as automate the set up of cluster size, memory allocation, or hundreds of other parameters. Now with Phurnace Deliver™, you can dynamically take applications off of a cluster to free up resources for more important applications and then bring them back online after the peak load time has passed.

A common use case example:
Imagine that Denise is responsible for a medium sized server environment of 100 application server JVMs. On those JVMs are 30 applications, running in a variety of topologies. At peak load times there are 5 applications that are critically important. Denise would like a way to dynamically add server capacity to those applications. Right now Denise could manually add and delete applications from the various clusters, but doing that is very time consuming and error-prone. The environment most likely is complex, with a series of virtual server images with the applications deployed with an array of different configurations -- but with that number of applications and servers, it is too resource intensive to build a server image of every permutation. Denise can’t feasibly take full advantage of the virtualization.

With Phurnace Deliver™ the story is fundamentally different. With Phurnace Deliver™, Denise can decide to add or delete an application from a cluster on the fly and have all of the changes take place in real-time; no server down time and executed in an entirely automated process. This allows her to scale the capacity of her applications up and down depending on the resource demand: making better use of her servers and delivering improved overall performance. Now, that is the true promise of virtualization. Don’t go only half way, extend the benefits of virtualization all the way to the application layer – with Phurnace Deliver™.