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Although cloud computing presents new risk of security fiascos, there are many things providers and customers can do to take advantage of on-demand resources in a safe, reliable way. Smart people have been giving this a lot of thought.

Cloud computing is the latest buzz phrase in the enterprise, as management seeks to cut IT costs.
RightScale and GigaSpaces have teamed up to let enterprises deploy and scale data- and transaction-intensive applications on Amazon's EC2 service.

Cloud computing ... what the heck is it? Not only do I not possess the magic definition (and I talk about it nearly every day), but I'm not convinced anyone does.
Structure 08, held last week in San Francisco, offered attendees the opportunity to wrap their heads around the idea of cloud computing, bringing in some of the biggest names and companies in the industry -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft, GigaSpaces, Salesforce.com, etc. -- to try to clear up the picture.

GigaSpaces Technologies specializes in helping companies develop distributed, scalable, on-demand systems that can handle big, honking, rapid-fire enterprise and Web applications. And they intend to help companies run those systems in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.

Allowing firms to build, test, deploy and run applications without an infrastructure, cloud computing promises new time and cost efficiencies. Geva Perry, CMO at GigaSpaces, says cloud computing is virtualization gone wild.

In this article, VentureBeat covers the scalability issues at Twitter and refers to Nati Shalom's, CTO at GigaSpaces, blog post.

GRIDtoday Editor Derrick Harris believes that one key to achieving the highest possible level of success in a particular market is to not only develop an advanced flagship solution, but also to really understand the wants and needs of those customers.

Although Wall Street firms are widely regarded as among the biggest, most cutting-edge spenders in the world of enterprise IT, operations on the trading floor are suffering from drastically limited performance and efficiency levels because of a reliance on Excel on the desktop. GigaSpaces has worked with Microsoft to develop a solution offering users an Excel frontend powered by a GigaSpaces backend.

UCS, the Austrian partner of GigaSpaces in Vienna, launched a detailed introductionary article in Germany's leading JavaMagazin Issue 3/2008 explaining the concepts of Space Based Architecture and including a coding example using GigaSpaces XAP.

SpringSource has announced a technology partnership with GigaSpaces. The partnership enhances the integration of Spring and GigaSpaces, providing joint users and customers with the flexible programming.