Matt Sarrel

I'm excited to announce a new GridGain Systems white paper, Choosing the Right In-Memory Computing Solution, that explains the reasons to use in-memory computing and then walks through how to choose the right architecture and feature set to meet your needs.  As in-memory computing (IMC) gains momentum across a wide range of applications, from fintech and e-commerce to…

Gartner forecasts that there will be over 8 billion connected devices in use worldwide by the end of 2017. This figure is estimated to reach 20 billion by 2020 and continue to increase dramatically for the foreseeable future. According to the “Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2015–2020”, the total amount of data created by devices, driven by IoT, will reach 600…

This white paper discusses the transformation taking place in asset and wealth management and explains how in-memory computing options such as the GridGain in-memory computing platform can help asset and wealth management firms build the high-performance, scalable, and interoperable infrastructure that they need to successfully power their applications.The asset and wealth management sector of…

This white paper discusses the challenges faced by software and SaaS developers and examines how in-memory options such as the GridGain in-memory computing platform can help deliver a stellar user experience. All businesses want software and SaaS that delivers high-performance at scale. This is possible using in-memory computing.  Every business relies on software and the data it collects…

With consumers willing to walk away within seconds, the technological underpinnings of any online store or other customer-facing product must be impeccably designed, built and maintained for peak performance. Our latest free white paper explains how to ensure that your e-commerce infrastructure is as fast, available, and scalable as possible by moving to an in-memory computing platform designed…

This white paper discusses bitcoin and blockchain technology, describes the innovative opportunities this technology offers for financial services firms, and examines how in-memory options such as the GridGain in-memory computing platform can address the challenges and boost the effectiveness of tomorrow’s blockchain applications. Bitcoin and blockchain, the digital-ledger technology behind…

We recently wrote a real treat of a white paper, Accelerate MySQL for Demanding OLAP and OLTP Use Cases with Apache® Ignite™. I say treat because this is a great mix of technology and business stories. The white paper is based on the webinar given by Nikita Ivanov of GridGain and Peter Zaitsev of Percona.  MySQL® is a widely used, open source relational database management…

On February 22, I hosted a webinar "Boost Software and Software-as-a-Service with In-Memory Computing" where I offered insight into the advantages that in-memory computing offers to software and SaaS projects.  Software and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) developers face a rapidly escalating set of challenges as they strive to make applications faster and more scalable. Software developers…

On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 I delivered a webinar about the use of in-memory computing for eCommerce.  If your eCommerce initiatives are struggling to keep up with customer demand, then in-memory computing may be the solution you need to take performance and scale to the next level. Yesterday’s application and data architectures cannot achieve the speed and scale offered by in-memory…

During the past decade, financial spread betting has become a major growth market globally.  Spread betting offers some compelling advantages, including low entry and transaction costs, preferential tax treatment, and a diverse array of products and options. Traders can bet on any type of event for which there is a measurable outcome that might go in either of two directions – for example,…

Apache® Cassandra™ is a popular NoSQL database that does certain things incredibly well. It can be always available, with multi-datacenter replication. It is also scalable and lets users keep their data anywhere. However, Cassandra is lacking in speed. Cassandra is not fast enough for some of today’s extreme OLTP workloads because it stores data on disk. Cassandra also shares certain limitations…

Financial fraud is now a multi-billion-dollar business and growing rapidly, with Juniper Research predicting that online fraud alone will climb from $10.7 billion in 2015 to 25.6 billion in 2020. Financial fraud prevention is critical as failure to detect and prevent fraud can harm the reputations of financial firms and reduce confidence in the industry as a whole.  Protecting their…

Distributed In-Memory SQL Queries in Apache® Ignite™ Webinar Recap Apache® Ignite™, the foundation of the GridGain in-memory computing platform, contains an in-memory SQL engine that is fully ANSI-99 compliant. This means that developers don’t have to rewrite existing SQL queries to take advantage of the performance and scale offered by Ignite. There is a significant performance gain running SQL…