WSO2 CEO Will Unveil New and Upcoming Products Designed to Harness Today’s Connected World at WSO2Con US 2015

Discussion will cover strategic initiatives around the Internet of Things, mobile, analytics, containers, cloud, microservices, business processes, and the consumerization of IT

Mountain View, CA – November 3, 2015 – In an increasingly connected world, enterprises are extending new business models, processes and services across their employees, customers and partners. In his keynote presentation at WSO2Con US 2015 today, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder, CEO and chief architect, will discuss evolving IT architectural requirements driven by the demands of a connected world. Additionally, he will review how new and upcoming products designed to work together within WSO2’s holistic platform are harnessing the power of analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, cloud, containers, microservices, and business processes, among others, to deliver on these demands.

WSO2Con US 2015, WSO2’s ninth user conference, runs November 2-4, 2015, at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Weerawarana’s keynote will open the day on November 3, at 9:00 a.m. Pacific. In addition to the keynotes, the three-day event also features several conference sessions and technical tutorials examining the market forces, technology developments, and IT best practices for excelling in the connected world. For more information, visit https://us15.wso2con.com.

“Ten years ago, we started WSO2 to redefine middleware and create a holistic, entirely open source platform for addressing the application and integration requirements of enterprises with highly diverse, heterogeneous environments. Today, more than 2.2 trillion of our global customers’ transactions run through WSO2 enterprise middleware each year,” said Dr. Weerawarana. “We have now seen a sea change in enterprise IT requirements with the growth of cloud, mobile and IoT platforms in today’s connected world. Through the new and significantly re-architected products we are rolling out with our platform, we are continuing our commitment to support the technologies and IT approaches that empower innovation.”

Analytics Everywhere

Unprecedented volumes of data from the Web, mobile devices, and IoT sensors are giving enterprises new insights into enhancing customer and partner interactions, identifying new business models, anticipating and preventing security breaches and technology failures, and improving operations. WSO2 Data Analytics Server (WSO2 DAS) 3.0, announced today, addresses this demand. WSO2 DAS 3.0 is the next evolution of WSO2 Business Activity Monitor 2.5, which it replaces. It combines into one integrated, high-performance platform real-time and batch analysis of data with predictive analytics via machine learning to support the multiple demands of mobile, Web, cloud, and IoT-based apps.

Available today are the WSO2 DAS 3.0 platform providing the combined functionality, WSO2 Complex Event Processor 4.0 (WSO2 CEP) for users who only need to analyze streaming events in real time, and WSO2 Machine Learner 1.0 for those who only require predictive analytics. Significantly, WSO2 DAS also is being incorporated into the next generation of WSO2’s products, including API management, IoT and mobility management, business process management (BPM), and governance, among others.

Mobility and the Internet of Things

IoT and mobile devices are fostering new business models across a range of markets. However, implementing these new models requires the ability to provision and manage IoT devices and applications, as well as to integrate information from them in order to act on it. Today, WSO2 announced IoT optimizations in WSO2 DAS 3.0 and the WSO2 integration platform, including WSO2 Message Broker 3.0, WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus (WSO2 ESB) 4.9, WSO2 Business Process Server (WSO2 BPS 3.5), and WSO2 Data Services Server (WSO2 DSS) 3.5.

In his WSO2Con US keynote, Dr. Weerawarana also is previewing two products to address IoT and mobility demands, which are scheduled to launch in late Q4 2015/early Q1 2016. Both offerings are being built on WSO2 Connected Device Management Framework (CDMF), which provides functionality for device registration and management.

  • WSO2 IoT Server 1.0 is a comprehensive server for implementing an IoT architecture, including the management of IoT devices, APIs and applications. It is based on WSO2 CDMF and incorporates IoT device plugins along with functionality for IoT API management derived from WSO2 API Manager 1.9, analytics from WSO2 DAS 3.0, and IoT application management from WSO2 App Manager 2.0.
  • WSO2 Enterprise Mobility Manager is designed to manage mobile devices, APIs and applications. The forthcoming version 2.0 is being re-architected to use WSO2 CDMF and incorporates mobile device plugins along with functionality for mobile application and API management derived from WSO2 App Manager 2.0 and WSO2 API Manager 1.9, respectively, as well as analytics from WSO2 DAS 3.0.

Containers and the Cloud

Increasingly, enterprises are running their applications in containers to achieve greater agility and scalability, as well as better resource utilization. In support of these organizations, WSO2 is migrating its cloud platforms from the Apache Stratos platform-as-a-service (PaaS) framework to a Kubernetes framework. Developed by Google, Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers, which groups the containers that comprise an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. WSO2 plans to launch two PaaS developments based on this migration in Q1 2016:

  • Products within the cloud-enabled WSO2 enterprise middleware platform will be available as Docker containers that can run on Kubernetes, as cartridges designed to run on Apache Stratos, or alternative packages for other PaaS frameworks in order to implement a private PaaS.
  • WSO2 App Factory 2.0, the application PaaS (aPaaS) that features robust application life-cycle management capabilities, will be re-architected into Docker containers that give enterprises the option of running on Kubernetes.

The Move to Leaner IT and Microservices

The growing need to support applications across multiple platforms—from the Web and cloud to IoT and mobile devices—is reshaping enterprise IT architecture. IT organizations require software that can support today’s demands for high scalability while also remaining lean enough to run in highly distributed and diverse environments. At the application level, this is leading to the move toward microservices. WSO2 is addressing these architectural shifts with three product developments that are scheduled to launch in Q4 2015.

WSO2 Carbon 5.0 is a complete redesign of the component-based framework that provides core capabilities to all WSO2 middleware products. Version 5.0 features a composable server architecture with a leaner footprint, and it removes tight coupling with legacy libraries, such as Axis2 and XML. Additionally, multi-tenancy is no longer embedded in the kernel; instead WSO2 Carbon 5.0 mandates that multi-tenancy be provided using a PaaS framework, such as Kubernetes.

WSO2 Gateway 1.0 is an ultra high performance, lightweight and configuration-driven message gateway based on standard gateway patterns. It relies on the Apache Camel message processing engine for mediation and Netty, a non-blocking IO (NIO) client server framework, for the development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. Powered by WSO2 Carbon 5.0, WSO2 Gateway will serve as a foundational component in the next releases of WSO2 ESB, and in new planned products: WSO2 API Gateway, WSO2 File Gateway, and WSO2 Security Gateway.

WSO2 Microservices Server 1.0 is a fast, lightweight runtime engine, based on JAX-RS, the Java programming language API for creating RESTful Web services, which provides a simple way to develop, deploy and monitor microservices. Each microservice identifies a single purpose, and it is loosely coupled in design and deployed independently to ensure scalability and reliability. Additionally, WSO2 Microservices Server offers built-in metrics and analytics APIs with out-of-the-box integration to WSO2 DAS.

The “Consumerization” of IT

The online consumer experience is raising the bar on users’ expectations for enterprise systems. WSO2 helps IT organizations address this demand by providing the ability to provision and manage enterprise assets—such as APIs, applications, services, among others—through socially enabled consumer store-like capabilities. Among new and forthcoming products:

  • WSO2 Enterprise Store 2.0, launched in September 2015, is the first complete platform for managing and provisioning any type of asset—applications, APIs, gadgets, e-books and other resources—across the entire enterprise asset life cycle.
  • WSO2 Governance Registry 5.0, announced today, provides comprehensive, out-of-the-box support for a range of governance and life-cycle management scenarios. Version 5.0 integrates the functionality of Enterprise Store 2.0 and API governance capabilities of WSO2 API Manager. The result is a single center that offers a consumer-grade experience for developers to govern everything, from APIs to services to tokens.
  • WSO2 Dashboard Server 2.0, the new release of the previously named WSO2 User Engagement Server is scheduled to launch in Q1 2016. It will further enhance the ability of users to build dashboards, microsites and gadgets using internal or third-party data resources, as well as share them among authenticated or anonymous users across the enterprise.
  • WSO2 Process Center 1.0, scheduled to launch in Q2 2016, is powered by WSO2 Enterprise Store functionality, and makes it easy for anyone in the enterprise to document and discover processes—from simple Word documents to sophisticated Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) or Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) flows. WSO2 Process Center will form the central component of WSO2’s BPM platform, combining process design, implementation, execution, analysis and monitoring, optimization, and governance.

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