Custom Persistence Device Benefits

The Custom Persistence Device offers significant benefit to vendors by providing them with an opportunity to choose custom devices, locations, and/or databases to store the vital application persistence data. It allows vendors to tailor the scheme for persistent data storage, so that they can be aligned with the policies and environmental constraints which the vendors’ applications are often subjected to.

For example:

>Using the CPD interface, vendors can store persistence data in a remote SQL database even without having write access to the local file system. As a result, vendors can use SQL statements for performing the persistence write and read actions directly to the SQL database.

>If vendors need to provide additional security to their applications; the persistence data can be stored in a trusted environment such as a hardware key. The callback API can be implemented using the native I\O support of the hardware key to perform write and read operations to the device memory.

>Vendors can call published web services to read/write persistent information directly to cloud-based storage. This allows software vendors to use a centralized online storage mechanism for persistence information. A user could log in and out of multiple machines, virtual and physical, yet any data related to consumption or usage will remain consistent.