Grid and cluster management solutions have caught on. From
varied usages ranging from animating films to tsunami warning
systems, High-Performance Computing (HPC) is finding its acceptance
in the country. Industry estimates that the global market for HPC
products and services is pegged at $400 million annually, and
growing at a scorching pace, as each and every vendor is
incorporating this functionality into their solutions.
It makes sense, as each and every CIO is charged with the mandate
to optimize resources while delivering new functionality while
keeping the budget in mind. Solutions which have incorporated this
vary from SOA, to Web Applications and Portals, to Database
Performance Acceleration.
Tapping into this market is Pune-based Gemstone Systems, a provider
of HPC solutions. Present in the country through its India
Development Center, since 2005, the company has recently ramped up
the headcount in its development center as well as has laid out
plans to drive its business development activities.
The headcount of its development center has been increased to 40
from an earlier 15, as this is its largest development center
globally.
“We have been executing cutting edge development for our
flagship product, GemFire at our development center in the country.
With almost 90% of the product designed and developed here, we are
now looking at tapping into the domestic HPC market by increasing
our marketing activities. We operate in the extreme transaction
processing space, with our major clients being in the banking and
financial services. Now with the growth of this segment in the
country, we have decided to increase our presence here. We will be
looking at bringing on board more SIs who will drive our products
domestically,” says Ajit Karunakaran, Business Development
Director, SEA Region, Gemstone Systems.
To get it started the company has appointed Talentain Technologies,
a solutions provider who will deliver high performance computing
solutions in India, Middle East and South East Asia market regions.
Talentain through its local support services, will deploy scalable
solutions based on GemFire. The company has plans to appoint three
such similar solution providers by June 2008.
Globally under the GemCache Data Grid, in partnership with IBM, the
company offers a high-performance, distributed data management
solution that includes its product bundled with the System X range
of servers running the Quad Core Xeon 5300 processors from Intel.
Vendors such as Cisco, Adobe, Intel, have all incorporated specific
HPC solutions into their existing product range.
The company aims at replicating this with various domestic
companies. Informs Karunakaran, “Similar to our global
partnerships, we plan to have a strong India focus by signing on a
few Indian hardware vendors. Hopefully we can see at least three
deployments from these partnerships which will use GemFire as the
enterprise data fabric to be made available by the end of
2008.”