Category Archives: Caching

Terabyte Elastic Cache clusters on Cisco UCS and Amazon EC2

Posted on January 5, 2012 by sean

Overview Last week I was working on a new opportunity. The prospect needs to store 1 Terabyte of data in memory to address scalability challenges and were interested in using GigaSpaces. I was tasked with creating a demonstration of this … Continue reading →

Posted in Benchmarks, Big Data, Caching, Cloud, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, Web UI | 7 Comments

Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How?

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Shay Hassidim

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 →

Posted in Application Architecture, Caching, Cloud, Data Grid, Development, GigaSpaces, sba, SOA, space-based architecture, Spring Framework | Leave a comment

Terracotta ehCache vs. GigaSpaces Cache benchmark

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Shay Hassidim

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

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

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Shay Hassidim

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 →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Caching, Cloud, Events, GigaSpaces, News | 3 Comments

Realistic Elastic

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Shay Hassidim

When running system in production, the last thing you want to do is to shutdown the system. This could happen when: – You need to replace one of the machines running the system. – You need to upgrade one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Caching, Cloud, Data Grid, Development, GigaSpaces, Java, sba, space-based architecture | 1 Comment