On June 26, GigaSpaces announced the availability of its “cloud application server” on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2. The move will enable rapid development of scalable, fault-tolerant applications on Amazon EC2.

GigaSpaces' XAP (eXtreme Application Platform) supports transactional and data-intensive applications, such as those often used in Web 2.0, SAAS (software as a service) and enterprise applications, the company said. And with its usage-based pricing model, users can move on-premise applications to the cloud and vice versa. 

“Cloud computing is poised to revolutionize the IT industry, but for most companies there still exists a significant gap between the vision and the reality,” said Geva Perry, chief marketing officer with GigaSpaces. “GigaSpaces aims to bridge this gap. GigaSpaces XAP is an application platform born for the cloud.  The level of traction we are seeing with customers and partners – before even officially announcing the solution – seems to indicate that we are not the only ones who think so.”

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