On Wednesday, April 30, at 12:00 PM EDT, Owen Taylor , famed GigaSpaces evangelist and world-renowned speaker and writer, will be presenting an introduction to GigaSpaces over the Web. The presentation is targeted mainly at developers, but others may find it useful as well.
There is an ongoing debate in the industry, in the blogosphere, and frankly, internally at GigaSpaces, on whether or not cloud computing is anywhere near becoming a viable business offering for enterprise customers. First, a general comment on these types...
On Wednesday, May 7, 2008, between 8:30 Am and 11:00 AM ET, GigaSpaces, jointly with Microsoft and Lab49 , will be hosting an Executive Breakfast Seminar, entitled Excel that Scales - High Performance Excel Applications for Traders and Analysts in Financial Services. The event will be held at the Microsoft [...]
Owen Taylor, GigaSpaces Sr. Director of Technical Communications, produced a series of podcasts with various folks from the GigaSpaces team. You can find these podcasts on the GigaSpaces web site. You can also subscribe to them in iTunes.
The folks at Syscon's Virtualization Conference accepted my speaking proposal for the conference (see abstract below). My session is on Monday, June 23, at 6:25 PM. It's at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. I will show a live demo of...
For those of you in San Francisco today and tomorrow (April 1-2), and especially if you were planning on attending MuleCon , please come see Uri Cohen of GigaSpaces present about Scaling Mule within a Grid. In his presentation, Uri will show how you can scale-out Mule, with fault-tolerance and [...]
If you missed our cocktail event in Menlo Park last night -- you have another chance. We are hosting another cocktail event in San Francisco tonight at 6:00 PM at the W Hotel (181 3rd street, corner of Howard). Good food and drinks will be served and some good conversation [...]
In the past few months we've made several exciting announcements, such as our partnership with SpringSource , the expansion of our executive team, the launch of our community site OpenSpaces.org , the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge and the Start-Up Program . But there is nothing like a customer announcement, as in [...]
I haven't posted in a long time, but today I came back with a bang. The uber-blog GigaOm posted a blog I wrote as a guest columnist. Thanks to Om Malik, Surj Patel and Carolyn Pritchard for all their help....
Dear BEA WebLogic Customer: As you probably know, Oracle just announced it is acquiring BEA for $8.5 billion. Independent industry analyst Vinnie Mirchandani said about the deal: "Customers, unlike investors, do not have much to cheer." You are now facing a vendor that will put you in one of two [...]
Back in June of last year I wrote about our partnership with Microsoft and our plans to work together on a solutions for scaling out computations on Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Since then Microsoft and us both released joint material (see...
Cool. OpenSpaces.org, which we officially launch yesterday got a nice review on KillerStartups. Vote for us!
Today we officially launched OpenSpaces.org, a community web site for developers who wish to utilize and contribute to the open source OpenSpaces development framework. OpenSpaces extends the Spring Framework for enterprise Java development, and leverages the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) for data caching, messaging and as the container for [...]
Today we are announcing the official launch of OpenSpaces.org, the community web site around GigaSpaces' OpenSpaces Framework -- an open source application development framework that extends Spring to take full advantage of the scalability ad performance provided by running your...
We recently created some joint solutions with our good partners at HP. Here are links to collateral that describes them (in PDF format): HP-GigaSpaces Joint Solution for Financial Services -- for extreme transaction processing (XTP)
