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WTF is Elastic Data Grid? (By Example)
June 16th, 2010Forrester released their new wave report: The Forrester Wave™: Elastic Caching Platforms, Q2 2010 where they listed GigaSpaces, IBM, Oracle, and Terracotta as leading vendors in the field. In this post I’d like to take some time to explain what…
Web Speed Can Push You Off of Google Search Rankings! What Can You Do?
May 30th, 2010Last month Google added Website speed to its site ranking algorithm: It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor. According to the article there are two primary ways Google will measure page speed: How a page responds…
Lessons from Apple vs. Microsoft vs. Google Product Strategy
May 9th, 2010I was reading an interesting blog post by Thomas Fitzgerald on the difference between Microsoft and Apple when it comes to new products. This analysis touches on one of the more fundamental debates in product strategy –- going after market…
Elasticity for the Enterprise — Ensuring Continuous High Availability in a Disaster Failure Scenario
April 28th, 2010In the past few weeks I’ve had many interesting discussions on our new Elastic Middleware and how it fits into the current enterprise world. One of the interesting comments that was made is that in order to make use of…
How a Top Financial Firm Uses XAP for Dynamic Scaling and How 7.1 Makes It Simpler than Ever
April 20th, 2010GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 was officially announced last week. One of the highlight of the release is the new elastic middleware capabilities that makes scaling and fail-over significantly simpler. Today (April 21, 2010) i will present a case study that illustrates…
