The only application server enabling cloud computing for new and existing enterprise applications and JEE/J2EE web apps

GigaSpaces allows enterprises to deploy existing applications on the cloud, and easily build new enterprise applications on the cloud. GigaSpaces XAP on the cloud is designed to support everything from mission-critical applications demanding extreme performance, to large-scale web applications based on popular frameworks like J2EE, Spring Framework and Jetty. It is commonly used for SaaS enablement and cloud-based demos by ISVs, testing and faster prototyping by enterprise users, and for turn-key cloud projects by integrators and solution providers. XAP on the cloud is the same high-end application server used by customers such as Dow Jones, Virgin Mobile and Sempra Energy, and is tightly integrated with the robust infrastructure of Amazon EC2, GoGrid, and VMware. Want to see for yourself? Get a free trial.

Who Uses GigaSpaces XAP on the Cloud and Why?

• ISVs and Service Providers – SaaS Enablement
• A large telecommunications service provider operating in 150 countries around the world chose GigaSpaces XAP to turn their IP telephony call-center application, which used to be deployed on customer sites, into Software as a Service. It took only a few weeks to get the application running on a 150-machines cluster on the cloud, with a response time of several milliseconds.

  Another ISV using GigaSpaces XAP on the cloud is Primatics Financial, which provides a high-performance risk management solution. Primatics’ Argyn Kuketayev shared the lessons learned from their SaaS-enablement project in a JavaOne presentation: “You need to make sure you use the right tools … You don't want to have to worry about provisioning and reliability. Make sure you have provisioning, failover, monitoring and SLA out of the box.”

  GigaSpaces XAP allows ISVs and service providers to deploy their existing systems on the cloud for instant SaaS enablement, and provides automatic scalability, guaranteed performance (including eXtreme Transaction Processing if needed), continuous high availability, and portability of applications, enabling vendors to deploy the same cloud-based application on customer premises.
  
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• ISVs and Service Providers – Demo as a Service
• A global CRM vendor was considering setting up a dedicated data center to run demos for its active mediation product – but the idea was dropped due to the big upfront investment and the fact that the servers would be idle most of the time. Instead, the vendor chose GigaSpaces XAP on the cloud to deliver “demos as a service” on the cloud.

  GigaSpaces XAP allows ISVs and service providers to deliver demo services on the cloud, with no upfront investment, no installation of the demonstrated products, continuous version upgrades, deployment of the entire demo environment on demand (to conserve cloud resources), and continuous availability even in case of Internet connection failure. Most importantly, the cloud allows vendors to demonstrate non-functional requirements such as performance and scalability, simulating a production environment with a large numbers of machines and extreme loads.
  
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• Enterprise Users – Testing as a Service and Benchmark as a Service
• Many of GigaSpaces’ customers and partners are using GigaSpaces XAP to conduct testing, proof of concepts and benchmarks of complex enterprise software on the cloud – in many cases this can save over 1/3 of on-premise hardware, dedicated to testing and staging environments, not to mention the effort involved in provisioning and setting up these environments. GigaSpaces XAP is ideal for organizations which are not yet ready to use the cloud for production systems, but would like to realize its potential for pre-production stages.

  GigaSpaces XAP makes it possible to conduct testing and benchmarks on the cloud, by creating an identical, portable environment which runs on the cloud and in your local testing site. You develop locally, and then deploy an identical system on the cloud, with the ability to scale up to hundreds of machines and simulate extreme load scenarios. You can use external services such as Jmeter and Tomcat servers, run custom scripts when a machine is launched, and manage and monitor your test deployment using the most comprehensive administration tools in the industry.

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• Enterprise Users – Faster Prototyping with No Upfront Investment
• A major mobile operator in the UK used GigaSpaces XAP to launch a prototype of a new web application in only four weeks, with only $90 upfront investment in infrastructure. Before the cloud, the same project would have taken six months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware alone.

  GigaSpaces XAP helps enterprises get projects off the ground with no upfront investment, by enabling quick-and-dirty prototypes of enterprise software on the cloud. There’s no need to provision hardware or set up complex staging environments. As soon as a basic version is running on the local site, it can be deployed instantly on the cloud, allowing management, partners and customers to try it out and provide feedback. This provides unprecedented IT agility, extremely important in today’s volatile economy, while saving significant cost.

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• Integrators and Solution Providers – Turn-Key Solutions on the Cloud
• AAR, a leading system integrator specializing in mission critical development projects, has delivered several turn-key solutions on top of GigaSpaces XAP. GigaSpaces XAP gives AAR a competitive edge, because it provides their customers the ability to launch new applications in a matter of weeks as opposed to months and at a fraction of the setup costs (development environment, testing environment, staging environment) and hardware costs of traditional projects.

  GigaSpaces XAP allows integrators and solution providers to offer turn-key solutions on the cloud with unprecedented robustness, resilience, high availability and performance. Customers want cloud-based projects because they offer faster time to market, more flexibility and better scalability. Integrators benefit from dramatically reducing the total cost of projects, particularly the hardware and setup components, which can translate into improved profit margins or more competitive prices. In addition, integrators can generate ongoing revenues by offering to maintain the project on the cloud – GigaSpaces XAP can even bill the customer automatically for these services using Amazon’s DevPay system.
  
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