Grow Your Business On Demand

GigaSpaces XAP is a scale-out application server that scales predictably, cost effectively, and on demand while ensuring extreme application performance-no matter how many users you have, how quickly your data volume grows, or how dramatically your application's processing load increases.

What does this mean for your business?

You no longer have to play the capacity "guessing game." Your applications will grow with your business.

Unpredictable changes in demand make it difficult to accurately forecast future application workload, so provisioning IT capacity for the future is basically a guessing game. Guess too low, and you risk poor application performance, costly downtime, and potential customer and revenue loss. Guess too high, and you end up wasting time and money on unnecessary machines.

GigaSpaces XAP takes the guesswork out of planning for future demand by allowing your applications to scale both up and down predictably and on demand. This means that you can also grow your business predictably and on demand, because your applications will be ready for any number of users, any amount of data, and any processing load-without changing the application or re-architecting the infrastructure.

You can improve application performance without server overkill.

The guessing game forces many companies to allocate expensive high-end servers to handle "just-in-case" peak loads and future growth, but those machines end up sitting idle most of the time. With server utilization rates as low as 15%-20%, these companies are at a competitive disadvantage to those that fully leverage their resources, and therefore have more money to spend on growing the business. 

GigaSpaces XAP is designed to work in distributed environments, including clouds and grids. It runs applications as self-contained systems, making it easy to add additional capacity as demand grows. If an application begins to run too slowly, XAP can boost performance by automatically distributing the self-contained application to other machines. This kind of guaranteed high performance means you can reduce both capital costs and operating costs by eliminating redundant and idle hardware and software.

You can cut costs and leverage economies of scale.

GigaSpaces XAP runs on low-cost commodity hardware and creates economies of scale by utilizing servers more efficiently. This capacity optimization increases return on investment and lowers total cost of ownership because it requires fewer software licenses, less hardware, less maintenance, and less testing throughout the entire application lifecycle. And it helps your organization take steps toward "greener," more environmentally friendly IT because it cuts down on power, air conditioning, and physical space requirements.

You can avoid costly downtime with "always on" availability. 

According to Forrester and Gartner, the cost of application downtime can easily exceed $100K per hour when you factor in the combined impacts on productivity, revenue, financial performance, and brand. GigaSpaces XAP can help you avoid downtime and continuously meet your Service Level Agreements (SLAs) by ensuring that your business applications are reliable and resilient. XAP continually monitors application performance and automatically provisions new systems to take on additional transaction loads as needed. If one server fails, the application can be run on another server without risking transaction loss.

You can develop and deploy applications using standard frameworks.

GigaSpaces XAP supports standard development frameworks, so your teams can quickly create applications using their existing knowledge, tools, and programming skills. Shorter development, testing, and deployment phases mean your company can bring new services and functionality to your customers faster.