Category Archives: Caching

JavaOne 2009 Lab – PetClinic in the Clouds

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Shay Hassidim

This year JavaOne will include really cool lab – PetClinic in the Clouds: Scaling a Classic Enterprise Application. In this Hands-on Lab, participants will take a popular Web application (the Spring PetClinic sample application) and modify it so that it … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Caching, Cloud, Data Grid, Development, Events, GigaSpaces, Hibernate, Java, JavaSpaces, SOA, space-based architecture, Spring Framework | Leave a comment

Benchmarking on the Cloud – Your Definitive Check List!

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Shay Hassidim

Introduction Evaluating a new software product usually involves running benchmark tests many times, to assess the different capabilities of the product using some measurable elements. Generally, the end result of such tests is a matrix that includes the product latency, … Continue reading →

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New Grid, HPC, Cloud book

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Jim Liddle

A new book I co-authored  has been released entitled “TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. The aim of TheSavvyGuideTo book range is to get people up to speed as quickly as possible on the subject matter of the books.

Although the book covers a range of technologies it is a good read for anyone who wants a good concise overview of the HPC, Grid, Cloud space etc, whoever they are. Of course, GigaSpaces is covered in the book as well as many other vendors and technologies, which are all covered objectively.

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Ultra-Scalable and Blazing-Fast: The Sun Fire x4450-Intel 7460-GigaSpaces XAP Platform – 1.8 million operations/sec!

Posted on February 9, 2009 by Shay Hassidim

Introduction Over the past several years highly concurrent applications have faced some serious challenges when trying to scale on multi core machines. GigaSpaces scale-out-application server aims to solve this problem by freeing the user from dealing with the need to … Continue reading →

Posted in Application Architecture, Application Performance, Benchmarks, Caching, Data Grid, Development, GigaSpaces, Hibernate, J2EE, Java, JavaSpaces, sba, SBA FAQs, Share Nothing Architecture, space-based architecture | 6 Comments

.NET local cache is out

Posted on December 17, 2008 by .Net Team

On my previous post I've talked about the upcoming new local cache for .NET that introduces ultra fast caching performance. http://blog.gigaspaces.com/2008/12/07/ultra-fast-local-cache-implementation-for-net/ This cache has now been released as part of our early access program for the upcoming 7.0 version. This implementation gives you the power … Continue reading →

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