Software Vendors and OEMs of All Sizes and Industries are Leveraging GigaSpaces Memory-based Middleware Platform to Power Their Data-intensive, Transactional Applications. 

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This is a second post from Nati Shalom's blog, discussing the "The Missing Piece in the Virtualization Stack" where he introduces a new cloud enabled programing model named Elastic Middleware Services (EMS). EMS brings the simplicity and scalability of amazon services to standard Java environment. It also makes SaaS development significantly simpler by providing built-in support for multi-tenancy at the middleware level. Developer can get access to a production ready data, messaging or map/reduce services by a call of an API.

NT/e Ltd has announced CloudTran, a middleware product that brings the Cloud into the mainstream as an application platform for Java. CloudTran overcomes the inherent difficulties of distributed programming by providing a simple Java view of data, mission-critical transactions and automatic distribution in the Cloud.

GigaSpaces Technologies is showing a “preview version” of its upcoming eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) enterprise-grade application server for deploying and scaling distributed applications. XAP 7.1, specially architected for cloud and data grid applications, is due to ship in Q1 2010, company officials said.

GigaSpaces announced a preview release for the next version of it's flagship offering, the eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). The GigaSpaces developers are putting the finishing touches on the platform before they enter the release candidate stage. The early access version of XAP 7.1 requires no registration and the GigaSpaces developers are gathering as much feedback as they can from customers. The new features will include support for multi-tenant environments and better performance, usability, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces CTO, was recently interviewed by the top German magazine "DataBase Pro". Nati was asked about the future of NoSQL, Cloud Computing, RAM / Solid State Disks, and the Space-Based Architecture. This post is an excerpt of the full text which can be found online on DATABASE PRO.

GigaSpaces was nominated as one of the "Top Cloud Computing Solution Providers to Watch in 2009-2010″ alogside companies such as Amazon EC2 and Cisco.

Since the dawn of software development, the relational database has served as the de facto solution for handling most of our data persistence needs. With the advent of a new breed of large scale, high performance architectures such as Facebook and Twitter however, the role of the traditional database is changing. DZone recently had a chance to catch up with Gigaspaces CTO Nati Shalom to get his thoughts on the 'NoSQL' phenomenon, some of its underlying principles, and to learn more about how this ties in to the Gigaspaces' 2010 product roadmap.

This article deals with extreme transaction processing patterns- Write-behind Caching, and mentions Gigaspacesas a developer of a product  whcih allows all of the free memory of a cluster of JVMs to be used as a cache rather than just the free memory of a single JVM.

GigaSpaces (XAP) is now available as a PartnerGSI. This high-end application server is designed to meet the most demanding business requirements in a cost-effective manner and is the only product that provides a complete middleware solution on a single, scalable platform.
XAP is trusted by Fortune 100 companies, which leverage it as a strategic solution that enhances efficiency and agility across the IT organization.