Author Archives: Shay Hassidim

About Shay Hassidim

GigaSpaces Deputy CTO

Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How?

Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How? Mainframe (Z/OS) based systems running COBOL programs are legacy systems in many organizations. These are planned to be replaced with low cost commodity servers running Java or .Net based systems, saving the … Continue reading

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Terracotta ehCache vs. GigaSpaces Cache benchmark

Are you Really using the Fastest and Most Scalable Cache with your Application? We are hearing lately reports from several accounts "discovering" that Terracotta ehcache is not the fastest and most scalable cache out there. GigaSpaces local cache actually performs … Continue reading

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Benchmarks, Caching, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, Java, JavaSpaces, OpenSpaces | 2 Comments

GigaSpaces Cloudify for Azure at the NYC/NJ Windows Azure User Group meetup

I will be presenting next week (Wed , Nov 16 2011, 18:00 ET) at the NYC/NJ Windows Azure User Group. We will be presenting GigaSpaces Cloudify for Azure. It allows Java developers to On-board Java Applications to the Azure Cloud … Continue reading

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Real Time processing with IMDG and NoSQL session at the NYC meetup

I will be having a session about Real Time processing with IMDG and NoSQL DB on Thursday, July 28th, 6:30 PM at the NYC NoSQL meetup. The session will cover the following: In-Memory-Data-Grid usage with NoSQL DB in financial , telecom … Continue reading

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Elastic Distributed Risk Analysis Engine

Financial services applications produce reports constantly. Some of them produce reports where the data required for the report is generated over night  via batch processing, and some other type of reports are produced instantly upon user request. This type of … Continue reading

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