Tsunami's flagship toolset, HiveCreator, lets developers write applications that are self-organizing, self- maintaining, and self-healing, according to the company. That means software gets the hardware to work together, keeps the app up and running, and recovers it when crashes occur. Tsunami says hive computing is more scalable and can recover from crashes more easily than other cluster-computing approaches.
"The model is, instead of investing aggressively in hardware, put all the smarts in the software," says Mary Johnston Turner, VP of enterprise strategies at research firm Summit Strategies. "It turns what's been going on with virtualization and grid computing on its head."
One limitation: Hive computing can't be retrofitted to existing applications. "You really have to write the application from the ground up," Turner says. Tsunami says it has several customers testing the product, most in industries that write their own applications, such and finance or telecommunications.
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