GigaSpaces Technologies, Inc., a leader in high-performance distributed computing infrastructure today announced the immediate availability of the GigaSpaces Enterprise Application Grid, Version 4.0. This new version offers major enhancements over previous versions; adding powerful data grid, messaging and parallel processing components and delivering in-memory levels of performance as well as high reliability to transactional, data intensive, business-critical enterprise applications. New features include: - Enterprise Data Grid - Enhanced distributed caching - JDBC interface to in-memory JavaSpaces data-store - JavaSpace querying using SQL and Regular Expressions - Integration with O/R mapping technologies (Hibernate, JDO) - Enterprise Messaging Grid - Innovative, distributed JMS Grid - Enhanced JavaSpace-based messaging - Sequencing (FIFO) - Content based routing - Parallel distributed Workflow support - Core JavaSpaces Grid Engine - Scalable to thousands of concurrent users - Synchronous & asynchronous replication - Multicast replication option - Management and Provisioning - Java Management Extensions (JMX) interface - Dynamic deployment of GigaSpaces Grid components (RIO) - Grid management tools integration (Tivoli, Enigmatec) - Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) - Performance enhancements - Enhanced .Net, C++ and J2EE support - Support for Jini 2.0 "Our customers are organizations with stringent requirements for high-performance and reliability in a business-critical environment," said Yaron Benvenisti, GigaSpaces CEO. "They are looking for a mature and scalable infrastructure for their distributed environment, one that will provide an elegant solution to the limitations of existing middleware technologies. The GigaSpaces Enterprise Application Grid will finally enable them to enjoy the cost-benefits of a new-generation of commodity hardware and software platforms in their mission-critical, transactional-intensive application environments." "Most interesting from the grid-computing audience's point of view is GigaSpaces' claim to offer a missing link between the vision of grids (dynamic provisioning, virtualized IT, commodification) and the reality, in which grids are compute-oriented and used for batch processing and there exists multiple virtualization scenarios - CPU, database, storage etc." said William Fellows, Principal Analyst with The 451 Group, a technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. "Indeed, in this way GigaSpaces is now directly targeting one of grid computing's 'missing links,' identified in The 451 Group's 2003 Special Report on the grid computing market." Fellows' observations are contained in an independent report titled, "GigaSpaces touts data distribution approach for enterprise application grids," published on November 12, 2004. The GigaSpaces Enterprise Application Grid's is currently in production at a few dozen Global 1000 and ISVs sites around the world.