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Best Cloud Application Providers

December 25th, 2008

This week i got a nice xMas surprise hearing that we won the Best Cloud Application Provider category in the The 2008 Cloudies AwardsWhat makes it even sweater is knowing that it came from one of the best cloud bloggers…

Why GigaSpaces ?

December 22nd, 2008

As the festive season approaches and sales cycles close and we prepare for another year, that by all accounts is going to be a difficult year for the economy worldwide, my thoughts turn to the choices that companies have when they look to implement projects and technologies next year. To that end I thought I’d limit myself to 3 reasons why I think you should choose the GigaSpaces product over alternative competitive products (in no particular order - and it was hard sticking to 3 !):

Language interoperability: Although GigaSpaces is a Java based product it has full interoperability with .Net, C++, and scripting languages such as JavaScript, PHP, JRuby, Python etc. Not only that it also works with Map(JSR-107), SQL queries via JDBC and has Excel ‘Cloud’ integration. No other competitive technology has such breadth of interoperability, and GigaSpaces .Net and C++ technologies are now in their 3rd generation. See Shay Hassidim’s great blog entry to find out more about our C++ API and our .Net team’s overview of the latest .Net release. I’d also suggest having a look at Nati Shalom’s blog post discussing how to achieve risk analysis on the cloud using Excel. My own OpenSpaces project utilising GigaSpaces with PHP to build an iPhone web application is available with source code here.

Performance: Quite simply over this last year I have seen GigaSpaces out perform the competition in a variety of financial services, telecommunications, and manufacturing accounts. Forget simple ‘Get’ and ‘Put’s’, I’m talking about heavy load transactions scaling out linearly. GigaSpaces literally blew away the competition. For more on performance I’s suggest checking out the great blog posts by our performance expert, Shay Hassidim: You want it fast or super fast ?; Scaling the web layer - the web container benchmark;Memory Capacity Planning - the footprint benchmark;Write Latency benchmark. Of course GigaSpaces also broke record processing transactions with the Sun T5240 server.

Cloud Computing: GigaSpaces is the only of its competition have wholly embraced Cloud Computing. What does this mean ? This means that we have integrated it into our development environment, made it available on Public Clouds such as Amazon EC2, FlexiScale and GoGrid, and entered into value added partnerships with other cloud vendors where it makes sense, such as CohesiveFT and RightScale. I have personally seen the flexibility this gives small and large organisations not only from a pay-on-demand- utility compute viewpoint, but technically, in the ability to be able to do testing early on the cloud, and being able to use the cloud for ‘burst’ when internal resources are saturated, to companies hosting new applications on the cloud entirely. I notice from Googling that someone has posted a presentation from Nati Shalom on getting ready for the cloud on Slideshare so I am going to take advantage of this and embed it here so you can find out more about GigaSpaces and Cloud Computing.

GigaSpaces - Getting Ready For The Cloud

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: amazon gigaspaces)

As I said limiting to 3 was tough, I could have blogged about GigaSpaces unique ability to scale out Spring applications, or about how GS’s unique approach to middleware by condensing the tiers is the reason why the product is ultra scalable, or how you get so many more ‘ilities’ as part of the architecture that you would using alternatives, such as queueing and messaging….well you get the point

It only remains for me to say, may you you make the right choices for your organisation next year, and may the holiday season bring you some peace before 2009 begins. Happy Holidays !

Reducing latency with Sun Real Time JVM

December 22nd, 2008

Frederic Pariente Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems posted an interesting summary of a case study with GigaSpaces on Sun blog: Gigaspaces curbs latency outliers with Java Real TimeIn the context of a customer proof-of-concept this summer and in the light…

Fear Kills businesses, Dead !

December 21st, 2008

There is a very good article on TechCrunch entitled “Fear Kills Businesses, Dead”. The essence of the article is that due to the fact that we are at the start of the recession many businesses are locking up - they don’t care about getting ahead they are just concerned about survival.

As Brian Solis, the author of the article, outlines, this may not only be the wrong approach but businesses could use the current economic situation to their advantage to become more focused, and I would argue, innovate in a way they would not otherwise be able to. As Brian states “this is the time to strategically cut dispensable expenses, but also invest in growth”

“There’s a distinct difference between mere survival and succeeding in real world business. Many companies may unwittingly lock themselves in an isolated panic room instead of taking strategic steps to evolve and grow the business opportunity that exists today.”

Fear inspires desperate actions. Hope (combined with clarity and inventiveness) galvanizes action and engenders opportunities.

Many of the article themes that Brian touches upon are covered by the whitepaper by Nati Shalom, CTO of GigaSpaces entitled “Survival Guide for IT During the Economic Meltdown”. I suggest you read the TechCrunch article and then register and download the article by Nati. They really do make for an illuminating read.

“Remember, the economy is a yo-yo on an escalator. It might go up and down, and down some more, but eventually, it’s always going up (once we fix it, this time).

It is during these most difficult times when character is truly tested and defined.”