Cloud Computing: Terracotta’s BigMemory Capacity Swells

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Terracotta put out a new 3.7 version of its BigMemory Wednesday that can squeeze 10x more data into in-memory where it can hug ultra-fast processing and search. Poof, instant analysis of real-time Big Data.

The move will let it support the multi-terabyte servers that are now becoming standard fare. Those boxes now come with 2TB-4TB of RAM. Terracotta’s compression technology can squeeze a terabyte of data into 500 gigs of inexpensive RAM and multi-terabyte servers can be added linearly to create massive in-memory Big Data solutions.

The company says it upgraded out of customer demand for ever-increasing scale, speed and performance for their apps…

BigMemory is still a snap-in solution that integrates into existing IT environments and is now supposed to deliver up to 1,000 times faster access to terabytes of data than any other technology.

Terracotta says in-memory search has become critical in its deployments. With 3.7 data is indexed without significant overhead so users can run fast searches with predictable low latencies across terabytes of in-memory data.

The widgetry also has enhanced security. For out-of-the-box security integration, BigMemory 3.7 provides transport-level security via SSL and heightened security access for monitoring and managing deployments.

Terracotta claims over 500,000 enterprise deployments such as UPS and PayPal, including 70% of the Global 1000. It is beginning to see more competition from Oracle, IBM and EMC’s Greenplum.

There’s a trial version at http://terracotta.org/bigmemory3.7.