Category Archives: GigaSpaces

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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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

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Making Cloud Portability a Practical Reality

In one of my previous posts Five Misconceptions On Cloud Portability I argued that: The term "cloud portability" is often considered a synonym for "Cloud API portability," which implies a series of misconceptions. If we break away from dogma, we… 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

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Public vs Private clouds (Again!)- it’s not about the cost

I was reading Geva Perry’s post, 10 Predictions about Cloud Computing ..  As always I enjoyed reading Geva’s throughts and for the most part comletely agree with him. The thing that caught my attention is Geva’s point on private… Continue reading

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