Two vendors — GemStone (booth #2101) and Gigaspaces (booth #1419) — are showing data grids, solutions that eliminate latency in the access to in-company data by providing a huge memory cache. GemStone is introducing a joint solution with IBM and Intel called GemCache. "The idea here is you can deploy a cache in one fell swoop, so if you need a caching solution, you don't have to go and procure the hardware, operating system and our cache on top of that — we just do it as one nice package," says Mike Stolz, VP of architecture at GemStone.
GigaSpaces announced integration of its GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform with Microsoft Excel 2007, Excel Services and Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. "[Traders and quants] can create any model they want, [and] they're familiar with it," says Geva Perry, CMO of GigaSpaces. "The problem that creates for these organizations is that you have multiple versions of the truth, because if each one maintains a model and keeps some data on his computer, you get silos of information and logic. If you try to create a central repository for the data and the business logic, you'll face a latency and a scalability problem. The joint solution between GigaSpaces and Microsoft provides a central repository with in-memory cache that will synchronize with the local data on machines using Excel."
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