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A Refreshing call with GigaSpaces

Steve and I had an interesting and refreshingly different cGigaSpaces Architectureall this morning with GigaSpaces.

They had reached out to us to make sure we knew all about them so that they could be fully represented in each of the categories in our cloud computing market landscape / segmentation / taxonomy where they have a solution.

And after the call I can see that instead of just being in

  • Cloud Software / Compute

They also have a valid claim to

  • Cloud Software / Data

and may be even

  • Cloud Software / Cloud Management ( /Application Services Management )

This raised a bit of a dilemma for me. I certainly want to represent vendors and providers accurately in the segmentation model… Continue reading


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    The Goodall Technology Reading Ease Index - How Complex is Your Marketing Copy? I suggest calling it the GoodRead Index. Maybe it's over-reaching a bit, but you'll just have to ...
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    New Report From Lustratus Research: A Competitive Review of SOA Appliances Pete,Thanks for your comments, and those of your colleague. I think Danny has answered the 'mar...
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