![]() And its goal is to store fast-changing states in memory across a farm of servers that are clustered, often collocated with Web servers or applications servers, but also can be resident on a separate caching farm. It was similar to the technology developed by ScaleOut's founders.īain: We developed this technology that at the time we called "distributed caching." We've since renamed it as "in-memory data grids." It's a software middleware technology that sits above the operating system and beneath the application. Microsoft's AppFabric was first introduced into the market in 2008 under the "Microsoft Velocity" name, adding other features besides caching. He had developed load balancing software that Microsoft acquired after it bought his earlier company, Valence Research, and that network load balancing technology has been used in Microsoft's products from Windows Server 2000 and thereafter. ![]() The company's ScaleOut StateServer product was first introduced into the market back in 2005.īain explained that he had started ScaleOut Software in 2003 after leaving Microsoft. The company currently has more than 420 customers and its products, supporting both Windows and Linux, are running on more than 10,000 servers. Bain, CEO and founder of ScaleOut Software, as well as Chris Villinger, vice president of business development and marketing for the company, who are both Microsoft veterans. And it works with public cloud services from Amazon or Microsoft. An "object browser" can be used by developers to debug data in a grid. For instance, ScaleOut's solution supports Microsoft LINQ querying. In addition to making the switch easier, the ScaleOut StateServer product offers more advanced capabilities compared with Redis and AppFabric, according to company officials. Today, ScaleOut Software announced that it is introducing a new AppFabric Compatibility Library into its latest ScaleOut StateServer product that will ease the transition away from AppFabric.
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