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Announcing MAINgate.Net
Digital information has permeated modern life. Users struggle every day, trying to
find an easier way to manage, store and find the files they need.
Thanks to Mainsource's repository technology, combined with the power of
Microsoft's .Net platform,
a simpler and more transparent way will be available to manage a user's
existing and growing collection of files and folders, scattered over multiple
disk drives and computers.
The Need
- All Implementation Architectures are there to support information (data delivery)
It doesn’t matter whether you use traditional application development, Web applications or Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), all technology has the fundamental
purpose of acquiring, storing, managing and delivering data.
- Users want the content more than the devices and mechanisms that deliver it.
Technology has been constantly changing and will continue to change. Users have adapted to these many changes in devices, Internet browsers, content formants
and the like, and they will continue to embrace these new things because their desire is for the content (data) these things deliver.
- The infrastructure for delivering data is evolving faster that the infrastructure that supports the content (data)
The greatest advancements that have occurred in the past decade have been in the area of content delivery technology. Be it wireless networks, standards for Internet
content deliver, the .Net Framework, SOA’s or the many other technologies that deliver and present content to the users, advancements made in these areas have
vastly outpaced the technology used to store and manage data.
- The content needs a more central role in the evolution of information technology
If uses are going to embrace more new and evolving technology it will only be because it can deliver the content they want, when and where they want it, in a way that is reliable, simple and cost effective. The next technology revolution has to be moving the content to the centre of the architecture giving rise to Data-Centric Systems.
What is MAINgate.Net?
- MAINgate.Net extends virtualization to include virtual content management
Current use of Web technology creates “virtual applications” for the users. Users neither know where or how the content is managed and delivered to them.
The reality is that the technology only transparently gets them to a very traditional file systems or database that could use improvement.
- .Net decouples the application from its implementation, but generally leaves the implementation of content storage to traditional technology
While the use of .Net, and other current Web application implementation platforms, support the separation of application from the way it is implemented, this technology
eventually resolved to a Web server somewhere that relies on traditional databases and file systems to store and manage the content. Not only does this create multiple
points of failure, related to the storage devices, server and network singularity, it presents an easier target for cyber attacks.
- MAINgate.Net decouples the content management from its implementation
The MAINgate.Net product is able to provide significant benefits to delivering solutions by combining Microsoft’s .Net technology on the front-end with MAINsource’s virtual data repository technology on the back-end to delivery superior solutions that can deliver the all the power and benefits from virtualization.
When will MAINgate.Net be available?
- MAINgate.Net is currently planned for release in Summer 2007.
- Watch this space for more details on its features and availability.
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