29West
Encyclopedia
29West Inc., now a business unit of Informatica
(INFA), is a computer networking software company based in the Chicago
area (USA) specializing in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM). 29West has offices in the Chicago
area, New York City
, London
, and Tokyo
.
The company's major competitors are TIBCO Software
, Tervela
, Solace Systems
and more recently IBM
(with their WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging product). 29West was acquired by Informatica on Mar. 22, 2010, which continues to develop and sell its products under the umbrella name "Ultra Messaging".
29West's primary customers are bank
s, trading firms
, and exchanges
.
merged with TIBCO Software
in April 2002, Mark Mahowald (COO of Talarian) founded 29West, Inc. In mid 2003, 29West began to focus on the market for high speed messaging and approached a number of firms with the goal of creating a new MOM product. In early 2004, Todd Montgomery joined 29West as the senior architect. Todd had earlier helped define and implement the PGM
protocol. One early 29West customer was Wombat Financial Software (now NYSE Technologies). In June 2004, 29West announced Wombat as its first messaging customer, and in November 2004 announced the general availability release of their initial product, LBM (Latency Busters Messaging). In late 2006, 29West released their second major product, UME (Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise). In 2008, 29West released two new products, UMDS and UMCache. In 2009, 29West released a shared memory-based IPC transport. In 2010, 29West released a message queue
-based product "UMQueue".
29West was acquired by Informatica
on Mar. 22, 2010. Informatica continues to develop and sell the same products under the umbrella name "Ultra Messaging".
, Unicast
UDP
, Multicast
UDP), its primary emphasis is on the company's proprietary reliable multicast
protocol. LBM offers topic-based publish/subscribe semantics without message broker
s (daemons
or servers). Its primary design goal is to minimize latency. Customers incorporate LBM into their own software via the LBM API
.
29West's persistence product is UME (Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise). This product leverages the LBM API, but adds delivery confirmation, durable subscriptions and other persistence-related functionality.
UMCache (Ultra Messaging Cache) extends 29West Messaging to support message archival and replay, plus a Last Value Cache.
UMDS (Ultra Messaging Desktop Services) is a system designed to help incorporate slower desktop applications into the 29West multicast backbone. By filtering out unwanted traffic and publishing TCP streams directly to end consumers, UMDS offers a simple way to bridge the gap between these different classes of computers and applications.
UMQueue (Ultra Messaging Queue) adds message queue
ing semantics to the UME product, allowing load balancing and de-coupling of source and receiver.
Informatica
Informatica Corporation is a NASDAQ listed company with ticker INFA. Founded in 1993, its headquarters is in Redwood City, California. Founded by Diaz Nesamoney and Gaurav Dhillon...
(INFA), is a computer networking software company based in the Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
area (USA) specializing in Message Oriented Middleware (MOM). 29West has offices in the Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
area, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, and Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
.
The company's major competitors are TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software Inc. is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. TIBCO manages information, decisions, processes and applications in real-time for over 4,000 customers worldwide...
, Tervela
Tervela
Tervela Inc. is a privately-held technology company based in New York, New York and Acton, Massachusetts. The company is backed by Goldman Sachs, , Acartha Technology Group, and North Hill Ventures...
, Solace Systems
Solace systems
Solace Systems is a content networking company based in Kanata, Ontario, Canada that manufactures and sells middleware appliances. Middleware appliances are rack-mountable network devices that implement message-oriented middleware and content-based routing in purpose-built hardware...
and more recently IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
(with their WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging product). 29West was acquired by Informatica on Mar. 22, 2010, which continues to develop and sell its products under the umbrella name "Ultra Messaging".
29West's primary customers are bank
Bank
A bank is a financial institution that serves as a financial intermediary. The term "bank" may refer to one of several related types of entities:...
s, trading firms
Broker-dealer
A broker-dealer is a term used in United States financial services regulations. It is a natural person, a company or other organization that trades securities for its own account or on behalf of its customers....
, and exchanges
Stock exchange
A stock exchange is an entity that provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks, bonds, and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments, and capital events including the payment of income and...
.
History
Shortly after Talarian CorporationTalarian
Talarian was a provider of real-time infrastructure software. Now part of TIBCO, it was a veteran provider of message-oriented middleware.Talarian was a member of the Business Integration Group , the Internet Protocol Multicast Initiative , the Securities Industry Middleware Council , the Object...
merged with TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software
TIBCO Software Inc. is a provider of infrastructure software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing environments. TIBCO manages information, decisions, processes and applications in real-time for over 4,000 customers worldwide...
in April 2002, Mark Mahowald (COO of Talarian) founded 29West, Inc. In mid 2003, 29West began to focus on the market for high speed messaging and approached a number of firms with the goal of creating a new MOM product. In early 2004, Todd Montgomery joined 29West as the senior architect. Todd had earlier helped define and implement the PGM
Pragmatic General Multicast
Pragmatic General Multicast is a reliable multicast transport protocol. PGM provides a reliable sequence of packets to multiple recipients simultaneously, making it suitable for applications like multi-receiver file-transfer.-Overview:...
protocol. One early 29West customer was Wombat Financial Software (now NYSE Technologies). In June 2004, 29West announced Wombat as its first messaging customer, and in November 2004 announced the general availability release of their initial product, LBM (Latency Busters Messaging). In late 2006, 29West released their second major product, UME (Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise). In 2008, 29West released two new products, UMDS and UMCache. In 2009, 29West released a shared memory-based IPC transport. In 2010, 29West released a message queue
Message queue
In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components used for interprocess communication, or for inter-thread communication within the same process. They use a queue for messaging – the passing of control or of content...
-based product "UMQueue".
29West was acquired by Informatica
Informatica
Informatica Corporation is a NASDAQ listed company with ticker INFA. Founded in 1993, its headquarters is in Redwood City, California. Founded by Diaz Nesamoney and Gaurav Dhillon...
on Mar. 22, 2010. Informatica continues to develop and sell the same products under the umbrella name "Ultra Messaging".
Products
29West's streaming product is LBM (Latency Busters Messaging). Although LBM supports multiple protocols (TCPTransmission Control Protocol
The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...
, Unicast
Unicast
right|200pxIn computer networking, unicast transmission is the sending of messages to a single network destination identified by a unique address.-Addressing methodologies:...
UDP
User Datagram Protocol
The User Datagram Protocol is one of the core members of the Internet Protocol Suite, the set of network protocols used for the Internet. With UDP, computer applications can send messages, in this case referred to as datagrams, to other hosts on an Internet Protocol network without requiring...
, Multicast
Multicast
In computer networking, multicast is the delivery of a message or information to a group of destination computers simultaneously in a single transmission from the source creating copies automatically in other network elements, such as routers, only when the topology of the network requires...
UDP), its primary emphasis is on the company's proprietary reliable multicast
Reliable multicast
A reliable multicast protocol is a computer networking protocol that provides a reliable sequence of packets to multiple recipients simultaneously, making it suitable for applications like multi-receiver file transfer or streaming media.-Overview:...
protocol. LBM offers topic-based publish/subscribe semantics without message broker
Message broker
Message broker is an intermediary program which translates the language of a system from one internationally recognized language to another by way of a telecommunications medium.-Pattern:...
s (daemons
Daemon (computer software)
In Unix and other multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user...
or servers). Its primary design goal is to minimize latency. Customers incorporate LBM into their own software via the LBM API
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
.
29West's persistence product is UME (Ultra Messaging for the Enterprise). This product leverages the LBM API, but adds delivery confirmation, durable subscriptions and other persistence-related functionality.
UMCache (Ultra Messaging Cache) extends 29West Messaging to support message archival and replay, plus a Last Value Cache.
UMDS (Ultra Messaging Desktop Services) is a system designed to help incorporate slower desktop applications into the 29West multicast backbone. By filtering out unwanted traffic and publishing TCP streams directly to end consumers, UMDS offers a simple way to bridge the gap between these different classes of computers and applications.
UMQueue (Ultra Messaging Queue) adds message queue
Message queue
In computer science, message queues and mailboxes are software-engineering components used for interprocess communication, or for inter-thread communication within the same process. They use a queue for messaging – the passing of control or of content...
ing semantics to the UME product, allowing load balancing and de-coupling of source and receiver.
External references
- Company site
- Topics in High-Performance Messaging - General information on messaging, not specific to 29West or LBM.
- Parent company site