Category Archives: Data Grid
Terabyte Elastic Cache clusters on Cisco UCS and Amazon EC2
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
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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
2012 Cloud, PaaS, NoSQL Predictions
2011 is coming to its end and now is a good time to start planning for 2012. I thought that a good start would be too look at my 2011 predictions and if my previous (and first) attempt to predict… Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Cloudify, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, syndicated
Tagged cloud computing, NoSQL, PaaS, syndicated
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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
Java and Center Stage: Meet us at JavaOne 2011
It seems that now Java is taking center stage in the Cloud world, with more application platforms such as SalesForce/Heroku, VMware, Redhat/OpenShift, Cloud.com, JClouds, and obviously GigaSpaces providing a rich set of offerings that are based on… Continue reading
