Atlassian Confluence Massive: World's First Commercial Wiki Software With Clustering.SYDNEY, Australia -- Atlassian Software Systems Atlassian Software Systems is an Australian software company specialising in issue tracking and collaboration software. Their main products are JIRA, an issue tracking and project management system, Confluence, an enterprise wiki, Bamboo, a continuous integration system, and Crowd, announced today the availability of the newest version of Confluence, the enterprise wiki A Web site that can be quickly edited by its visitors with simple formatting rules. Developed by Ward Cunningham in the mid-1990s to provide collaborative discussions, there are several "wiki" tools on the market for creating such sites, including www.editme.com, www.seedwiki.com, www. . Confluence 2.3 offers users an optional clustered configuration, Confluence Massive, that provides unlimited scalability, together with exceptional performance and reliability, for large deployments of the wiki. In every industry, wikis See wiki. are used extensively as solutions for knowledge management and collaboration in small, medium and large organisations. Increasingly, wikis are being used as corporate intranets, extranets, and even for website content management. As their popularity and usage grows, many customers require greater scalability and availability. Confluence Massive is the first commercially available wiki to provide the performance required for organisations with tens of thousands of users, or for those businesses with mission-critical applications that require high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. . Confluence 2.3 contains dozens of other new features and improvements, including a People Directory, which allows users to easily find other Confluence users' profiles and personal spaces; an activity-tracking plugin that generates statistics on application usage; and a WebDAV client plugin. Widely regarded as the world's most popular enterprise wiki, Confluence 2.3 contains world-class features including: * Simple to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. interface that requires little or no training * Ability to store and search across all types of files (PPT, Word, PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. , GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. , etc) * Enterprise-grade security and permissioning * Email and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. integration and support * Atlassian's legendary commitment to service and support * Highly extensible and interoperable architecture Atlassian selected Tangosol, the leading provider of reliable data grid solutions, and their Coherence product to deliver the clustering capabilities of Confluence Massive. Tangosol Coherence provides scalable performance that enables true linear growth; automatic, dynamic and transparent reliability of data; and reduced latency for rapid data access. Confluence is used by over 2,000 organisations in more than 40 countries. Confluence 2.3 is available for evaluation and purchase today at www.atlassian.com/software/confluence. Release notes, pricing and licensing information are also available online. About Atlassian Atlassian Software Systems is an innovative Australian software company providing enterprise software solutions to the world's leading organisations. Atlassian JIRA JIRA Japan Industries Association of Radiological Systems (trade organization) JIRA Japan Investor Relations Association , professional issue tracking software, and Atlassian Confluence, an enterprise wiki, help organisations collaborate, manage content, and make better business decisions. Recently recognised as Australia's fastest-growing software company by BRW BRW Business Review Weekly (business magazine; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) BRW Business Report Writer BRW Barrow, AK, USA - Barrow (Airport Code) BRW Business Requirement Worksheet magazine, Atlassian has over 5,000 customers in more than 60 countries, and has offices in Sydney and San Francisco. For more information on Atlassian please visit: www.atlassian.com. About Tangosol Tangosol is the leading provider of reliable data grid solutions, enabling enterprises to predictably scale mission-critical applications. Tangosol Coherence reliably manages data in memory across data grids, enabling applications to achieve unparalleled scalability to quickly and efficiently meet rapidly-changing data access demands. The company is headquartered in Massachusetts, and is privately held. See www.tangosol.com. |
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