GigaSpaces on the Cloud

Empowering Amazon EC2 with

GigaSpaces XAP

GigaSpaces@EC2 - Motivation:•Hardware virtualization is great, but it’s

not enough:• Traditional tier-based architectures

are not fit for virtualized environments• Will not benefit from additional CPU

power

Business/Services Tier

Back-upBack-up

Back-up

Data Tier

Messaging

B CA

Back-up

• Hard to install (“how do I cluster that database ??”)• Bound to static resources (IPs, disk

drives, etc.)• Hard to scale (separate clustering

model for each tier)• Hard to maintain

Ever Tried to Deploy This on the Cloud?

There’s only so much a traditional tier-based application can do…

To take full advantage of the cloud, Your application’s architecture needs to change

It needs to be elastic:• Grow (and shrink) as needed,

based on work loads• But with no downtime• And with a corresponding

performance improvement

It needs to be efficient:• By doing (much) more with the

same resources:• Via distributed in memory

technologies • Which means (much) higher

throughput and (much) lower latency

It needs to be modular:• Add, remove and update

services on the fly • But without downtime

GigaSpaces XAP Value Proposition:GigaSpaces XAP Value Proposition:• A Scale-Out Application PlatformA Scale-Out Application Platform• Optimized for distributed and virtualized Optimized for distributed and virtualized

environments:environments:• Any deployment platform: clouds, grids, Any deployment platform: clouds, grids,

commodity servers, SMPscommodity servers, SMPs• Any language: Spring/Java, .Net, C++, dynamic Any language: Spring/Java, .Net, C++, dynamic

languageslanguages• SLA driven – grow and shrink based on the SLA driven – grow and shrink based on the

application’s loadapplication’s load

GigaSpaces XAP is driven by the GigaSpaces XAP is driven by the

need to need to predictablypredictably handle handle fluctuating demand and peak loadsfluctuating demand and peak loads

GigaSpaces XAP is driven GigaSpaces XAP is driven by the need to get by the need to get

guaranteed performanceguaranteed performanceunder any processing loadunder any processing load

GigaSpaces XAP is driven by the GigaSpaces XAP is driven by the need for cost-effective, need for cost-effective,

on-demand on-demand scalabilityscalability for clouds for clouds and grids and grids

GigaSpaces XAP Middleware Virtualization

API Facade

Common Clustering layer

Messaging Services Data

Deployment Virtualization

Development Environment

Infrastructure Virtualization

The Cloud

Where Does GigaSpaces XAP Fit In?

Can Your Application Handle the Load?

How can your application How can your application take the heat ???take the heat ???

Your Server

The Cloud

GigaSpaces XAP will GigaSpaces XAP will manage, monitor and scale your manage, monitor and scale your

application on the fly on the cloudapplication on the fly on the cloud

Achieving On-Demand Scalability

Download GigaSpaces XAP 6.6:Download GigaSpaces XAP 6.6:http://www.gigaspaces.com/LatestProductVersionhttp://www.gigaspaces.com/LatestProductVersion

GigaSpaces XAP Product Overview:GigaSpaces XAP Product Overview:http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/XAP66/Concepts http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/XAP66/Concepts

GigaSpaces XAP for EC2 GigaSpaces XAP for EC2 (Technology Preview): (Technology Preview):

http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/XAP66/Cloud+Computinghttp://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/XAP66/Cloud+Computing