GridGain® Experts Share Hands-On Advice About How In-Memory Computing Can Make New or Existing Applications 1,000x Faster and Scalable to Petabytes

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Jan. 25, 2018 -- GridGain® Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache® Ignite™, today highlighted its ongoing commitment to helping businesses of all sizes understand how in-memory computing can help them address the speed and scalability requirements of modern, data-intensive applications.

“The demand for information about in-memory computing continues to soar as more enterprises recognize their need for real-time performance as they create or scale out applications related to digital transformation, omnichannel marketing and regulatory compliance initiatives,” said Terry Erisman, Vice President of Marketing at GridGain. “Our in-memory computing experts enjoy sharing their practical knowledge about how to apply distributed in-memory computing technology to a range of data-intensive use cases.”

To start the year, GridGain Founder and CTO Nikita Ivanov spoke at Persistent Memory Summit 2018, where he served as a panelist on "Hype to Reality, a Panel Discussion with Leaders of Real World Persistent Memory Applications."

Over the coming months, GridGain will host or participate in the following conferences, webinars and meetups:

Webinars

• GridGain Webinar: Ignite the Fire in Your SQL App, January 31, 2018 – GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will provide proven best practices for increasing performance of existing or new SQL-based applications up to 1,000x, scaling to millions of transactions per second and handling petabytes of data by adding Apache® Ignite™.
• GridGain Webinar: Redis Replaced: Why Companies Now Choose Apache® Ignite™ to Improve Application Speed and Scale, February 20, 2018 – GridGain Product Manager and Apache Ignite PMC Chairman Denis Magda will explain why HomeAway® and other companies are moving away from traditional caches like Redis and choosing Apache Ignite and the enterprise-ready version of Apache Ignite from GridGain to handle their in-memory computing needs.

Workshops

• Workshop: In-Memory Computing Essentials for Data Scientists, February 15, 2018 – In this hands-on workshop by GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri, attendees will be introduced to the fundamental capabilities of in-memory computing platforms that boost highly-loaded applications, research projects, risk analysis and fraud detection tasks by storing and processing massive amounts of data in memory and on disk across a cluster of machines.
• Amsterdam Java User Group, March 8, 2018 – GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will lead a workshop titled, “In-Memory Computing Essentials for Java Developers.”

Conferences

• DeveloperWeek 2018 – February 3-7, 2018 – On Wednesday, February 7, GridGain Product Manager and Apache Ignite PMC Chairman Denis Magda will present "Apache Ignite Service Grid: Foundation of Your Microservices-Based Solution." 

Meetups

• In-Memory in Manhattan! January 25, 2018 – GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will present “Building Consistent and Highly Available Distributed Systems with Apache Ignite and GridGain.”
• Los Angeles Kubernetes Meetup, January 31, 2018 – GridGain Solution Architect Dani Traphagen will present "Deploy like a Boss: Using Kubernetes and Apache Ignite!"
• Big Data Application Meetup, January 31, 2018 – GridGain Product Manager and Apache Ignite PMC Chairman Denis Magda will present “Apache Spark and Apache Ignite: Where Fast Data Meets the IoT." 
• The New York City Java Meetup Group, January 31, 2018 – GridGain Senior Solutions Architect Fotios Filacouris will present "Java and In-Memory Computing: Apache Ignite."
• London In-Memory Computing Meetup, February 7, 2018 – GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will present “Building Consistent and Highly Available Distributed Systems with Apache Ignite and GridGain.”
• The Boston MySQL Meetup Group, February 12, 2018 – GridGain Senior Solutions Architect Fotios Filacouris will present "Turbocharge your MySQL Queries In-Memory with Apache Ignite." 
• The Boston Java Meetup Group, February 13, 2018 – GridGain Senior Solutions Architect Fotios Filacouris will present "Java and In-Memory Computing: Apache Ignite."
• Symbion IoT Meetup, February 14, 2018 – GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will present "Apache Ignite: The In-Memory Hammer in Your Data Science Toolkit." 
• Sydney Cassandra Users, February 13, 2018 – Rachel Pedreschi, GridGain's Principal Solutions Architect, will present "Ignite your Cassandra Love Story: Caching Cassandra with Apache Ignite."
• San Francisco Kubernetes Meetup, February 15, 2010 – GridGain Product Manager and Apache Ignite PMC Chairman Denis Magda will present “Distributed Database DevOps Dilemmas? Kubernetes to the Rescue!”
• Berlin Kubernetes Meetup, February 21, 2018 – GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will present “Distributed Database DevOps Dilemmas? Kubernetes to the Rescue!”
• Big Data, Berlin, February 22, 2018 – GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will present “Apache Ignite: The In-Memory Hammer in Your Data Science Toolkit.”
• Amsterdam Java User Group, March 7, 2018 – GridGain Technology Evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will present "Catch An Intro to the Java-Powered Apache Ignite - Memory-Centric Distributed Platform."

             
About GridGain® Systems
GridGain Systems is revolutionizing real-time data access and processing by offering enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions built on Apache® Ignite™. GridGain solutions are used by global enterprises in financial, software, ecommerce, retail, online business services, healthcare, telecom and other major sectors. GridGain solutions connect data stores (SQL, NoSQL, and Apache® Hadoop®) with cloud-scale applications and enable massive data throughput and ultra-low latencies across a scalable, distributed cluster of commodity servers. GridGain is the most comprehensive, enterprise-grade in-memory computing platform for high volume ACID transactions, real-time analytics, and hybrid transactional/analytical processing. For more information, visit gridgain.com.

CONTACT:
Terry Erisman
GridGain Systems
[email protected]
(650) 241-2281

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