Terracotta Acquires Quartz, Open Source Scheduling Vendor

Terracotta today announced the acquisition of privately-held open source job scheduling software Quartz. Quartz is the most widely used Java scheduler in the world, with tens of thousands of enterprise production deployments at companies such as Vodafone, Level 3, Cisco and Adobe. In addition, Quartz is built into many products made by companies such as Atlassian, SpringSource, a division of VMware, and Red Hat.

A number of Terracotta customers and users already cluster Quartz to enable high-availability job scheduling and execution and to more easily scale their applications to multiple nodes. Quartz is ideal for creating simple or complex schedules for triggering application tasks such as driving process workflow and generating application data reports and recurring system maintenance checkups. Terracotta makes clustering Quartz a simpler, faster and far less expensive alternative to using a central database for coordination. Now, with the acquisition, Terracotta will quickly integrate Quartz within the Terracotta platform to enable users to easily scale applications in large virtualized environments and private clouds and to distribute the massive workloads characteristic of these environments.

“As the trend toward scaleout in virtualized environments continues to gain speed, coordination across application instances becomes a critical capability,” said Amit Pandey, CEO, Terracotta. “Our acquisition of Quartz perfectly positions us to solve this problem for our users. Terracotta will be extending the products’ APIs to include node-aware scheduling features that will make scaling out considerably simpler in virtualized environments.”