NEW YORK, October 5, 2015 —
Gigaspaces Technologies, a provider of in-memory computing and cloud orchestration technologies, today announced that it has been named a leading company in the recently released Forrester Research report, “The Forrester Wave™: In-Memory Data Grids, Q3 2015.” The report names GigaSpaces as a leading company among vendors providing “blazing fast application performance—it’s what customers want and what every application development professional needs to deliver.”
GigaSpaces Technologies was selected as a leading company in the in-memory data grid (IMDG) sector for its XAP product. XAP is an in-memory computing platform that delivers fast event processing and data access with low latency data processing, linear scalability and high availability across servers and data centers. XAP enables a hybrid storage model for storing data in both random access memory (RAM) and solid state drives (SSDs) for reduced total cost of ownership and quick initial load.
GigaSpaces is a pioneer developer and supplier of IMDG solutions. Hundreds of Fortune 500 companies worldwide are using XAP, including top banks, leading retailers, and many of the world’s largest telecommunications and healthcare companies.
Learn more about XAP here.
“It is a great honor to be named a leading company in this important report for the second time now,” said Adi Paz, executive vice president of marketing & business development at GigaSpaces. “The research, with its 32-criteria evaluation, thoroughly examined our offering by deeply looking into elements such as security, data features, architecture, implementation support and more, and we are proud to be named a leader.
GigaSpaces is continuing to develop advanced features of XAP in order to provide to its customers with exceptional benefits such as superior performance, highest data availability, integrity and extreme scalability.”
The Forrester Wave evaluation offers a detailed analysis of vendor’s products and services within a specified market segment for the purposes of helping professionals make well-informed decisions. This current report on the IMDG market defines a leading in memory data grid provider as a company that offers the most comprehensive set of features to accommodate the broadest use cases and also has good to excellent strategy.
About GigaSpaces
GigaSpaces Technologies provides software for cloud application orchestration and in-memory computing through two product lines, Cloudify and XAP In-Memory Computing. Hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations worldwide—such as Morgan Stanley, UBS, Bank of America, RBS, Goldman Sachs, Societe Generale, Reuters, Telefonica, Wolters-Kluwer, Kohl’s, CLSA, Avaya, IBM and VMware—leverage GigaSpaces technology to enhance IT efficiency and performance. Primary market sectors include financial services, e-commerce, online gaming, healthcare and telecom. GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Asia. More at www.gigaspaces.com and blog.gigaspaces.com.