Gemstone, an enterprise software company and a provider of
enterprise level technologies such as distributed resource
management, in-memory caching and disk persistence, scalable data
distribution, high performance computing operations, object
management, etc. is ramping up its India presence.
With a development center in place and 32 employees, the company
plans to increase the staff strength to 50 people in the next three
to four months. The company recently launched Gemfire 5.1, a new
product that will also cater to the archival and compliance needs
of enterprises.
The API is a set of monitoring and management tools with enhanced
features such as data positioning with high availability,
accessibility from any network, no data duplication even when the
server is switched off, disk access, etc.
“The tools can be used during login mechanism and disk
movements. They also assure data virtualization on computer grids.
We are the only vendor to support Java, C++ and .Net. In India, we
are building an ecosystem to leverage scaled databases,” said
Sudhir Menon, Senior Engineering Manager for Gemstone.
“We would essentially like to work with enterprise groups
with hosted online portals, groups developing products for the
financial and logistics market, retail products involving RFiD,
etc. We will approach service providers and ask them to embed our
products on their offerings, he said.”
Globally, it has around 2,000 customers including independent
software companies, systems integrators building high performance ,
data intensive enterprise solutions, and another 200 comprising
companies and organizations within financial services, energy,
logistics, telecommunications and the federal government as
customers.
The company will target the BFSI, retail with rfid, large PSUs,
manufacturing, telecom, ship management, pharma and life sciences
verticals in India.
Menon said, “We now want to focus on deployments and are
looking at partnerships with OEMs.” The company already has
strong partnerships with Intel, IBM, Data Synapse, Platform
Computing, Sun Microsystems, BEA and Cincom.
Said he, “Internationally, these partners have taken us into
their strongholds and placed the Gemfire framework into systems fit
for their customers. We will continue similar methodology even in
India. Secondly, testimonials and relationships with our
international customers would help us access entry into MNC
companies, and these examples would be then used as case studies to
market our product to the Indian companies.”
Gemstone products are priced on an enterprise license model.
It could be a one touch price (running into multi million dollars)
or license per CPU or server deployments.