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GigaSpaces and Lightstreamer Partner to Provide
Enterprise-Scale Streaming AJAX JavaPolis
2006, ANTWERP, Belgium, December 11 -- GigaSpaces and
Lightstreamer today announced they have completed a
joint development effort that streamlines the
integration of the two organizations' complimentary
products. Via the joint development, GigaSpaces'
enterprise infrastructure software that is
revolutionizing the architecture of distributed,
data-intensive applications may be seamlessly integrated
with Lightstreamer's offering which features an
innovative push/streaming engine based on the AJAX-Comet
paradigm. In combination, the integrated products link
the high-performance and linear-scalability capabilities
of GigaSpaces' space-based architecture with
Lightstreamer's solutions for streaming real-time
information to web browsers and custom application
clients.
Streaming AJAX, also known as Comet, allows Web
applications to update end-users' displays in real time,
without reloading the Web page. The combined
GigaSpaces-Lightstreamer solution provides this rich
user experience with the scalability and performance it
requires to handle enterprise-grade applications, such
as trading systems, risk management, portfolio pricing,
GPS tracking, remote monitoring, news systems and many
more. It can be made highly reliable, while also
attaining a new level of ease of use and compatibility.
"Lightstreamer's streaming AJAX capabilities are the
cutting-edge in Web 2.0 technologies," said Geva Perry,
Chief Marketing Officer at GigaSpaces. "With the
scalability and performance of GigaSpaces, this
technology is now relevant to the most demanding
enterprise applications."
Lightstreamer, based in Italy, joins a large and growing
list of technology leadership companies worldwide that
are partnering with GigaSpaces to optimize product
offerings using the underlying space-based architecture.
These companies include Intel, HP, IBM, Sun, Azul,
Voltaire, Platform Computing and others.
"There has been a lot of talk about the lack of adoption
of Web 2.0 technology by enterprises," said Mauro
Fantechi, Chief Executive Officer at Lightstreamer. "One
of the barriers that has been preventing this is the
lack of enterprise-level scalability. With GigaSpaces at
the back-end, Lightstreamer can now offer its customers
the fast, interactive and rich user experience of
streaming AJAX with practically limitless scalability."
About Lightstreamer
Lightstreamer is a high-performance, Java-based push/streaming
engine based on the AJAX-Comet paradigm that delivers
real-time textual data to Web browsers and to desktop
applications. When using browsers as a client, nothing
is installed or downloaded (no applets or ActiveX, but
only pure HTML/JavaScript). Lightstreamer was originally
developed by the Financial Systems Integration activity
of privately held Par-Tec SpA group (founded in 1998).
In 2004 a separate company was formed within the group
as an 'ISV' to provide Lightstreamer 'Push' middleware
solutions for streaming real-time Market Data, or any
live information, to web browsers and custom application
clients. Lightstreamer is compatible with many browsers
on the market, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox,
Opera, Netscape, Safari, etc. For more information, see
www.lightstreamer.com where several on-line
demonstrations are available.
About GigaSpaces
GigaSpaces provides a single platform for end-to-end
scalability of high performance and stateful distributed
applications. GigaSpaces' unique approach enables
developers to Write their business logic Once and then
seamlessly Scale out the application linearly Anywhere,
and on-demand. It is targeted at applications
characterized by high-volume transaction processing and
low-latency requirements and provides an alternative to
web services for implementing high performance and
scalable service-oriented architectures. GigaSpaces
customers include leaders in the financial services,
telecommunications sectors, and government institutions,
including: Nortel, Societe Generale, Hutchinson 3G,
Virgin Mobile, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Dow Jones
where the need for mission-critical high-performance,
low-latency, reliability and scalability necessitates an
alternative to traditional approaches. GigaSpaces was
founded in 2000 and has offices in New York, San
Francisco, London, Paris and Israel. It is a privately
held company, funded by BRM Capital, Intel Capital and
is an affiliated company of the Formula Group (NASDAQ:
FORTY). For more information, please visit
www.gigaspaces.com
or visit the company's blog at
www.gigaspacesblog.com. |