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Enterprise Cloud Users Speak Out


The first GigaSpaces Cloud Crowd event, held in London in November, brought together top professionals who are using XAP to cloud-enable their hard-core enterprise applications. Now that the event is over, we can share insightful presentations by British American Tobacco, a Fortune 100 multinational using XAP to build a private cloud; Avenue A Razorfish, showcasing a public cloud project for a major UK mobile phone operator, with 87% cost savings; Orbyte, a web 2.0 trading platform using XAP both on and off the cloud; and NT/e, provider of a XAP-based cloud persistence solution. We'll also throw in the presentation about XAP on the cloud by GigaSpaces' James Liddle. Enjoy!

Fortune 100 CRM Solution on a Private Cloud

Describes how British American Tobacco is using XAP to develop a mobile CRM system, delivered as SaaS on a private cloud. The solution handles 4 million sales visits per week by 10,000 sales reps, with a data volume of 752 GB (slide 9). All the alternatives to GigaSpaces forced lock-in to proprietary development platforms and were "not really built for our data volumes" (slide 6). 

CloudCrowd- BAT Presentation on Building a Private Mobile Sync Cloud

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UK Mobile Operator - Cloud-Based SIM Activation

Describes how Avenue A Razorfish used XAP to develop a SIM activation application for a leading UK mobile operator, running entirely in the public cloud. Razorfish report cost savings of more than 87% - the cloud-based solution costs $43K p.a. (slide 14), while just the hardware for an on-premise solution would cost $320K, without the cost of operations staff (slide 15).

 

Web 2.0 Trading Platform Running On and Off the Cloud

Describes Orbyte's Web 2.0 trading platform. Using XAP, the same application runs both on-premises and on the cloud, with the same extreme performance and high resilience. Orbyte list XAP's benefits for startups: "an infrastructure we couldn't afford otherwise", cost control, agile provisioning, and a competitive edge (slide 11).

 

Also check out this cool video showing off Orbyte's snazzy Web 2.0 interface:

 

XAP-Based Cloud Persistence Solution

Describes NT/e's scalable, enterprise-grade persistence solution on the public cloud, based on GigaSpaces XAP.

 

GigaSpaces XAP on the Cloud

Presentation by GigaSpaces' James Liddle, describing how GigaSpaces XAP enables existing enterprise applications to run on the cloud.