Posts Tagged with ‘GigaSpaces’

It appears that cloud computing is the latest Web 2.0 technology under fire in the blogosphere, but of all the tech that's come out of this whole new way of doing things, I'd place my bets on cloud computing being around past anything else that falls.
Steven Hodson at WinExtra had a great breakdown of the major players in the space, but I disagreed with his concerns about security. He referenced the amount of data that can be stolen during a [...]

Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Appistry Vice President of Product Management & Marketing Sam Charington about their launch today of a new product, Appistry EAF Community Edition, a new licensing model (Open Distribution licensing model), and a new developer portal called Peer2Peer. Appistry had a soft launch in December 2007 prior to their public launch today.
As part of their Open Distribution Initiative, Charington feels that Appistry is taking the best of Open Source and commercial, giving [...]

Remember when Guy Kawasaki launched Truemors on the cheap? Bootstrapping a Web 2.0 start-up is the name of the game, but one of the problems with this mentality s that apps aren't built to scale out of the box. Services like Amazon's EC2 can help with scaling your hardware needs, but you still have to be able to be able to build that app to scale across all those servers. Enter GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which
“combines advanced services [...]