By Pete Harris, President Americas/Editor at Large, A-Team Group

Israel’s high tech industries, developed from its military capabilities, are making a huge impression on the world’s banking, telecoms and even pop music industries. So what is the secret of what the West dubs ‘Silicon Wadi’?

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Azul Systems, provider of server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network service, and Gemstone Systems, supplier of distributed data management and virtualisation solutions, have forged an alliance to deliver highly scalable and available data grids for Extreme Transaction Processing. The joint solution – which stems from a mutual engagement for the two companies at a leading Wall Street bank - provides “breakthrough” scalability and performance, the vendors say, enabling faster response times and more throughput to process stateful data in enterprise IT infrastructures, along with what they claim is unprecedentedly high availability. In the capital markets arena, the partners are targeting the high performance solution at applications such as real-time order management, trade execution, risk analysis and compliance.

Gemstone News Release 

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Platform Computing and GigaSpaces Technologies have entered into a joint marketing and technical development agreement to integrate Platform’s enterprise-wide grid resource management solutions with GigaSpaces’ technology for end-to-end linear scalability of transactional and data-intensive applications.

GigaSpaces News Release