iSpheres has announced a new release of its Halo Real Time Event Server. Version 4 adds two additional methods for event processing: time-series and text-based.

Time-series event processing detects change conditions over a moving time window -- for example, moving price averages or network performance degradation. Text-based event processing detects anomalies in unstructured data sources -- for example email, news stories, and instant messages. Version 4 filters, normalizes, detects and responds to over 100,000 events per second on a 2-CPU Intel processor.

According to company press releases, iSpheres, which was founded in 1998, is a pioneer in "sense and respond" technology and launched its first production event server in 2000. Derived from military command and control systems, event servers monitor distributed data environments for asynchronous events and execute application functions in real-time.

iSpheres' origin can be traced to  a 10-year research project funded by the U.S. military and conducted at the California Institute of Technology. The "Infospheres Project" yielded the algorithms and framework for iSpheres core technology.  - goto
origianlly Posted to cep.weblogger.com by David Soul on 2/15/04; 11:19:14 PM in the CEP section.