Reducing Memory Footprints = Less Hardware + Improved Scalability

Black Pepper have recently completed a project for a major Banking client. Faced with an increased demand for their software services, our client needed to be confident that their application would scale effectively to meet higher volumes of users without the need to increase the underlying hardware and operational infrastructure linearly. Having examined the application in depth, Black Pepper recommended removing one component of the architecture - the Hibernate Object / Relationship Management package - and replacing this function with a bespoke persistence layer.

Most people will have stumbled across the concept of The Cloud – an extreme piece of hyperbole that claims to be the next generation of computing. Removing the hype, the Cloud promises an independence from owning and administering your own individual computing resources, allowing you to consume IT services (storage, processing power, or applications) from “somewhere else” - i.e. the Cloud – without having to know or worry too much about the mechanics.