ScaleOut StateServer® Grid Computing Edition Named “Best of TechEd 2009 Awards Winner” by WINDOWS IT PRO and SQL SERVER Magazines
Bellevue, WA – May 13, 2009 – ScaleOut Software today announced that its ScaleOut StateServer software product was named as Finalist in the Best of TechEd 2009 awards program in the Software Components & Middleware category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®. ScaleOut StateServer’s industry-leading, distributed caching software accelerates the performance of applications running on server farms and computational grids.
The Best of TechEd 2009 Awards recognize companies who offer innovative products for the industry. The judges reviewed more than 170 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 35 finalists to be interviewed at the TechEd 2009 IT Pro Conference in Los Angeles, Calif. Winners were announced on May 13, 2009, at an evening reception and are also posted on www.WindowsITPro.com/awards.
“Every year, selecting winners from the outstanding pool of highly qualified nominations is challenging, with this year’s submissions no exception,” said Jeff James, IT Group editor in chief and web content strategist. “Our judging criteria – innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customers – are clearly reflected in the winners’ products.”
“ScaleOut Software is honored to be chosen as a finalist for the Best of TechEd 2009 award,” said William Bain, Founder and CEO. “We are grateful to our many customers and partners who have made ScaleOut StateServer a success by making it a key part of their data center environments.”
About ScaleOut StateServer
ScaleOut StateServer provides distributed, in-memory caching for server farms and compute grids to boost application performance and offload database servers. Now in its fourth major release, ScaleOut StateServer has proven its ability to accelerate application performance every day on hundreds of production server farms across a wide range of industries including financial services, ecommerce, and many others. Its patented technology for scaling performance and replicating data enables it to deliver scalable access to cached data while maintaining high availability in case of server failures. Tests have shown that ScaleOut StateServer’s performance quickly outpaces database servers as the load on a server farm grows. By using ScaleOut StateServer’s distributed, in-memory cache for application data storage, developers can maintain fast response times while their server farm grows to handle increasing workloads.
ScaleOut StateServer runs on Linux, Windows, and Solaris operating systems and communicates over an existing LAN. It provides powerful Java, .NET, and C/C++ APIs for caching application data in a single, uniformly accessible, distributed cache, and it supports mixed platform/language operations. Once installed, it can be used to replace ASP.NET’s built-in session-state storage and enable ASP.NET applications to seamlessly and transparently store and retrieve session-state. ScaleOut StateServer implements comprehensive distributed caching semantics, including distributed locking, object timeouts, and automatic memory reclamation. In addition, it offers a unique, scalable event handling mechanism which automatically distributes the event handling load across the server farm and reliably delivers events even if a server outage occurs.
The ScaleOut GeoServer Option uses data replication to extend distributed caching across multiple, geographically distributed data centers so that they can share fast-changing workloads and be fully protected against site-wide failures. GeoServer’s capabilities help IT managers meet the stringent performance and uptime needs of high-end Web sites and other mission-critical applications.
About ScaleOut Software, Inc.
ScaleOut Software develops software products that provide scalable, highly available caching for workload data in server farms and compute grids. It has offices in Bellevue Washington and Beaverton, Oregon. The company was founded by Dr. William L. Bain, whose previous company, Valence Research, developed and distributed Web load-balancing software that was acquired by Microsoft Corporation and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.
For more information, contact David Brinker at daveb@www.scaleoutsoftware.com or visit www.scaleoutsoftware.com. ScaleOut Software, Inc. 10900 NE 4th Street, Suite 2300, Bellevue, WA 98004, T: 503-643-3422.
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