GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of a new generation of virtualized application platforms delivering end-to-end scalability, has entered into partnership with CloudTran to bring data integrity to the cloud.

Officials with GigaSpaces (News - Alert) Technologies said that CloudTran has integrated its transaction management middleware with the company’s eXtreme Application Platform (XAP). The end result is a Java-based solution that runs large database infrastructures in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. "We were seeking a platform that would allow us to offer extreme scalability, reliability, and high-speed processing," said Tom Henn, president and CEO of CloudTran, in a statement.

Henn said that GigaSpaces XAP provides the back-end that allows the company’s clients to build highly reliable database management systems while maintaining complete data integrity. According to company officials GigaSpaces XAP is an end-to-end virtualized application platform featuring an in-memory data grid that can manage terabytes of data. Its infrastructure ensures high-speed processing with millisecond latency, while providing automatic failover. XAP and CloudTran enable highly responsive transaction processing over the largest distributed and cloud computing environments, providing for significant improvements in performance, availability, reliability and cost-efficiency of very large scale transaction processing, the company said.Company officials added that the combined XAP-CloudTran infrastructure gives IT organizations the tools and infrastructure components required to build and deploy database-focused enterprise applications in the cloud by providing a simple Java view of data, transactions and automatic distribution within public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid combinations.

"Enterprises need platforms that enable today’s data-focused applications in the cloud," said Adi Paz (News - Alert), executive vice president for marketing and business development of GigaSpaces.

Paz said that with XAP and CloudTran, CIOs and development teams have the tools necessary to deliver scalable, database-intensive applications within any environment.

TMCnet in December reported that GigaSpaces Technologies and Protogen Technologies of Sydney have partnered-up to bring high-speed processing and linear scalability to Australian companies with GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP).

The main advantage of XAP is that it enables organizations to perform high-volume transactions with low latency while linearly scaling automatically. XAP is an enterprise-grade, end-to-end in-memory application server for deploying and dynamically scaling distributed applications. XAP also allows enterprises to cost-effectively develop and operate their business-critical applications – both within the data center or on the cloud.

(source: http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/133970-gigaspaces-cloudtran-enter-into-partnership.htm)