n-ZO in Energy
The goal for Up-Stream and Down-Stream Energy Supply Chains is to make information available to anyone, anytime, anywhere across organizational boundaries. Business specific events cause many people to want to see the same information at the same time in massively distributed environments. This ubiquitous requirement to access information puts considerable strain on existing IT and operational infrastructure.

What's needed is a pervasive information fabric that supports distributed and real-time decision making that can be delivered with low insertion and low cost impact. n-ZO is the information fabric that provides data access on-demand across the enterprise while it is decoupled from the applications or infrastructures that require it. It takes advantage of low cost clustered systems, reduces the load on existing hardware and software, and improves quality of service to the user.

Benefits of n-ZO include:

  • Avoids Redundant Disk and Database Access.
    n-ZO virtualizes distributed data dynamically across the hardware and software boundaries of the enterprise.
  • Enables Cross-Application Collaboration.
    n-ZO increases performance by enabling distributed in-memory, cross application, data exchange via C, Java, or XML. Performance significantly increases when data is cached in-memory instead of staged in a database.
  • Positions Data Close to Point of Use
    n-ZO enhances the performance of portals, applications, application servers and systems by storing data that is accessed multiple times by programs, groups of users or by a single user who is massaging the data.
  • Reduce Network Load
    Caching data close to point of use prevents unnecessary re-transmission of data across the network for each user. This contributes to a reduction in network load.
  • Enhances Survivability of Distributed Applications
    The distributed n-ZO cache enables applications to continue to work with data that was retrieved before a network outage.
  • Turbo-charges Web Services-Based Applications
    n-ZO significantly enhances XML performance in a Web services environment. It stores XML documents in optimized cache, thus minimizing data access time and storage space in memory. This is one of the critical challenges in a Web Services implementation.
  • Boosts performance and scalability for Java Applications
    n-ZO enables Java applications to access additional memory outside of their process space and thus manipulates more data.
  • Enable Multiple Computers to Seamlessly Share Memory
    n-ZO can create a data-space that spans multiple computers memories. This capability can be used to allow n-ZO caches on 32 bit computers to share memory with 64 bit computers that are virtually unlimited in the amount of memory they can address. This capability can also be used to allow computers in a Grid of blade server environment to appear to have a single large memory space, instead of having a group of disjointed individual memory spaces.

n-ZO Industry Solutions
 Organizations across various industries are bracing for changes that will help them increase their operational efficiency, profitability, and customer service while minimizing risk. However, data management is a significant hurdle to success. n-ZO solutions offer the necessary ingredients to help companies align information strategies with critical business initiatives. 
Learn more about how n-ZO can help address the data management needs in the following industries: