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In the following interview, Sramana and Nati Shalom discuss several key aspects of cloud computing, including the role of Microsoft Azure, improvisations in sales cycles, standards, analytics, and the opening of new markets and entrepreneurial opportunities in the cloud.

"Uri Cohen, product manager at GigaSpaces, says increasing the use of a server’s memory instead of heavily utilizing the disk is one way to consolidate servers. Taking this step, Cohen says, increases application efficiency and throughput, thus allowing them to run on fewer machines. And, he adds, leveraging server RAM for storage eliminates “trips” to slow storage devices, thus maximizing application processing power."

Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces CTO, has commented on recent technologies & trends that are developing in the cloud computing market. when asked to comment on new trends in the cloud, Nati explained that "At the end of the day, the key is to turn the data center from a static to a dynamic environment". Nati further added that "This can be accomplished by creating a service environment infrastructure where storage servers, networks, and applications are available on demand.

In this Article, Nati Shalom GigaSpaces CTO, comments on the future of NoSQL. Nati argues that "the technology behind NoSQL is sound and will provide the solutions for addressing some of these issues. Nevertheless, he says, NoSQL still requires two things: better implementation and more maturity".

Integrasofts whitepaper on Virtualized CEP Services Integrated With GigaSpaces XAP has been posted on ZDNET

"As high-powered Memcached distros like Gear6 and NorthScale become more successful, other companies are getting in on the Memcached action as well. Today GigaSpaces will announce the next release of their eXtreme Application Platform (which is analogous to a JEE server with an embedded database), which now includes support for Memcached. XAP 7.1.1 will be able to deploy with a Memcached schema and provide initial load semantics and write-behind for Memcached. This feature will also add easier accessibility to the XAP for languages like Python, Ruby, and PHP"

"NEW YORK-Grid-enabling platform provider GigaSpaces Technologies has released version 7.1 of its eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), which is designed to make data and application scaling simpler, according to vendor officials. The latest version introduces GigaSpaces' Elastic Middleware Service, which consists of XAP and its Elastic Data Grid, which makes it possible to provision applications on demand. The platform's Elastic Data Grid feature no longer needs to be running for applications to use it, say officials.

GigaSpaces "intriguing new product" was presented on Network World along with a review of its key features.

GigaSpaces XAP 7.1 is reviewed at eWEEK Labs.eWEEK Labs looks into the product's calss, and on the new version's capabilities.