GigaSpaces Announces Launch of Version 5 of its Award-Winning Platform

GigaSpaces Announces Launch of Version 5 of its Award-Winning Platform



Delivers key services for mission-critical distributed applications and

benchmarked for linear-scalability, high-performance and reliability



In an effort to meet growing demand for high-performance, low-latency
transactional

systems in Financial Services, Telecommunications, Defense and other
industries,

GigaSpaces Technologies today announced that it has launched version 5 of
its

award winning infrastructure software solution. The new version is shipped
in

two editions: a full-scale Enterprise Edition and an entry-level Caching

Edition.



GigaSpaces Enterprise Edition provides application developers with a robust

infrastructure for developing and deploying dynamic, linearly-scalable

applications in order to meet the exponential increase in transaction
volumes of

high-performance, business-critical systems. This new version aims to
remove,

under a single platform, the middleware bottlenecks associated with data
access,

data processing, and data distribution. Its product architecture allows

application programmers to write their business logic once and transparently


scale the application linearly and on-demand across any number of machines.



GigaSpaces Caching Edition encompasses a subset of the Enterprise Edition

functionality, and effectively delivers a highly scalable, high-performance

Distributed Caching solution. This solution is ideal for application
scenarios

that require very-high performance by reducing access times to distributed,

in-memory data. This solution includes built-in configuration and support
for

common caching scenarios such as Replicated Cache, Partitioned Cache, and

Master-Local Cache with both in-memory transient and data-base persistent
modes.

It also includes a unique combination of an object-based data model and In

Memory Datagrid (IMDG) capabilities through a hybrid implementation of SQL
based

queries and the JavaSpaces and JCache APIs.



GigaSpaces' Enterprise and Caching Editions have been independently and
consistently benchmarked in very demanding

distributed environments, encompassing more than 2000 commodity,
hyper-threaded

CPUs. Some of the benchmark metrics include loading more than 2 Terabytes of


data in 20 minutes and the processing 800 million events in less than 100

minutes.



New to Version 5, which combines advanced services such as distributed data

caching, distributed messaging and parallel processing:



* A Pro-Active cache that automates the deployment, scaling and fail-over of


GigaSpaces instances over a pool of commodity HW resources through a single

point of access;



* Performance improvements in replication and partitioned cache deployment
as well

as optimizations for highly concurrent applications running on multi core

environments;



* Transparent, parallel query (including SQL query support) capabilities
that

enable applications to run distributed parallel queries on very-large

distributed and partitioned in-memory data sets;



* Enhanced out of the box support for .Net and C++ interfaces providing

high-performance integration of heterogonous environments;





* CacheStore/Load capabilities allowing tight integration and data load from


existing data sources for transparent data virtualization;



* Out of the box integration with leading J2EE servers (WebLogic, JBoss,

WebSphere) ;



* Improved documentation, developer forum, and out of the box tutorials and

examples on variety of common use cases;



* Enhanced management GUI support for configuration management, monitoring

activities, measuring statistics and performing variety of real time
performance

benchmarks and testing;



* Distributed interactive command shell enabling interaction with the
pro-active

cache as well as utilize the grid to enable distributed execution of user

defined tasks through Ant support.





The new release also includes early access to POJO support through Spring
and

Mule that was developed collaboratively with interface21, SymphonySoft and a


tier-1 financial services institution in the US.



To download a free 30-day evaluation of GigaSpaces 5.0, please refer to

http://www.gigaspaces.com/os_downloads.html



For reference materials on the early access POJO integration, please refer
to:



Mule white-paper



http://www.gigaspaces.com/os_papers.html#p001



POJO to Entry Converter example

http://www.gigaspaces.com/JForum/posts/list/79.page#




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