The GigaSpaces Blog

Cloud Summit Event in Sunny Tel Aviv

Nati Shalom — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:46:17 +0000

Cloud summit event is coming up with lots of interesting lectures from Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBayYou can see the full program here. In my presentation "Getting ready for the clouds" I'm going to talk about the steps that can be...

Memory Capacity Planning - The Footprint Benchmark

Shay Hassidim — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:28:39 +0000

The goal of this benchmark is to measure the memory footprint of the indexes the space maintains to boost read/take operations when searching for matching objects. This should help users to plan the amount of memory to allocate when doing their capacity planning prior deploying the application. See blow the final Conclusions and the detailed report: - [...]

Holy .NET Batman! GigaSpaces6.6 for .NET is so cool!

Owen Taylor — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:09:26 +0000

I just installed the GigaSpaces product for .NET found here: Latest Downloads I installed it in two clicks - using the default install and discovered the remarkable and oh so sexy .NET functionality demo that has no parallel (yet) in the Java version of the product. I am now motivated to scrape together a graphical example for Java that shows the same clear and excellent functionality as is in the .NET example. If you are interested - after you download the .NET version go to : "C:\GigaSpaces\XAP.NET 6.6.0\Examples\SpaceTutorial" to execute the charming and educational graphical demo I am speaking of. Cheers, Owen.

Closing the gap between multi-core hardware and enterprise applications

Amnon Raviv — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:20:57 +0000

Both Nati Shalom and Geva Perry wrote here before about the missing piece in Cloud Computing and in Virtualization, and how the GigaSpaces middleware provides this piece. Case in point: GigaSpaces and Sun Microsystems recently teamed up to address some aspects of this very problem. We demonstrated how GigaSpace’s eXtreme Application Server (XAP) is able to [...]

Making EDA programming simple with JeeWiz

Nati Shalom — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:39:37 +0000

Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is becoming more popular these days, as the drive for loosely coupled and scalable architecture forces us to break our systems into components and integrate them through some sort of workflow. Having said that, thinking in...

Java/.NET Interoperability

Guy Nirpaz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:18:09 +0000

Eitan, one of our brilliant .NET developers posted here a description of the underlying mechanism we use in GigaSpaces XAP to provide simple integration between Java and .NET.

We use different concepts than typical XML based interop solutions by providing a seamless default mapping between Java, .NET and C++ objects. We have several customers who use mixed teams, usually .NET team which develop user interfaces for the desktop and Java or C++ server side processing teams. In our solution the objects are mapped to a canonical efficient representation. It is the framework's role to do the mapping and conversion and not of the user's. For this reason we can apply very sophisticated optimization which makes language boundaries unnoticeable from performance and efficiency perspectives.

More information and example code can be found here

Enjoy,

XAP.NET speeks in Java?

.Net Team — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:00:47 +0000

One of the key features of GigaSpaces XAP/XAP.NET is the seamless interoperability of .NET Java and C++, This can happen because that the product core is developed in Java and entries are saved inside the space in a generic, language free, form, allowing each specific programming language to interact with the entries in the space [...]

The new XAP.NET 6.6 version

.Net Team — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:44:10 +0000

XAP.NET 6.6 has been recently released, I’m very happy to introduce this new and very cool version. It’s the first time that XAP.NET is a completely stand alone version. The .msi installation provides a fluent self explanatory installation experience. Once installation is completed you get a fully configured ready to use framework (see download [...]

GigaSpaces Cloud Framework - Private Beta

Geva Perry — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:49:01 +0000

As Dekel has already written on his blog, we are releasing our cloud framework for private beta. This was intended as a very "soft launch" sent to about 30 customers and partners already using GigaSpaces on public clouds (such as...

GigaSpaces EC2 Framework - Private Beta release

Dekel Tankel — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0000

I am excited to bring to your attention that we have released today a private beta of the GigaSpaces EC2 Framework.This framework “clouds” the GigaSpaces Application Server to enable easy development and deployment in the cloud. You can deploy app...