ScaleOut Software Sets Future Stage Following Highly Successful 2009

BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- ScaleOut Software (ScaleOut), a leading provider of distributed data grids, today announced a 25 percent increase in overall customer activity for 2009. Adding 62 new customers to its portfolio, the company made significant strides in its business and product offerings.

"The new customers hail from a wide range of industries such as financial services, healthcare, consumer products and online services. Their common goal is to scale out their customer-facing and back-office applications to meet increasing demand and raise overall satisfaction," said David Brinker, chief operating officer at ScaleOut.

Some of the new features added to ScaleOut StateServer (SOSS) included comprehensive backing store support, an object browser, parallel backup and restore, and map/reduce-style calculations for data analysis. With version 5.0, ScaleOut also takes a major step towards driving the use of distributed data grids into cloud computing and virtual server environments.  All these new capabilities have added significant value to SOSS's fast, scalable distributed caching and storage, which can reduce delays in accessing data by up to 10 times.

"Over the past year we've seen increasing momentum around the need to use distributed data grids to scale enterprise applications and accelerate performance in many diverse industries," said Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO at ScaleOut. "Our new data analysis functionality has enabled corporations to realize additional benefits from this technology for business intelligence. Moving forward, we see tremendous potential associated with using distributed data grids both for fast storage and for powerful data analysis."

For 2010, ScaleOut predicts that distributed data grids will be increasingly viewed as a key component of cloud infrastructures for scaling application performance. As cloud computing matures and as enterprise applications are increasingly hosted in the cloud, businesses will require the integration of distributed data grids. By dramatically simplifying and enhancing the deployment of scalable applications within cloud-based infrastructures, distributed data grids can play a key role in delivering the cloud's promise of on-demand elasticity for both storage and computing.

"Cloud computing can provide a powerful platform for analytical computation, especially on large data sets, such as ticker symbol histories, census data, or geophysical data. Global enterprises are now beginning to perform fast parallel data analysis on grid-based data and sidestep the need for complicated parallel code. The ability to easily and quickly analyze data sets in many industries provides a key competitive edge for distributed data grids, and this opportunity will grow as the cloud develops into a global business tool," said Dr. William L. Bain, founder and CEO of ScaleOut.  

Dr. William L. Bain will be speaking at TheServerSide Java Symposium 2010 on Friday, March 19 at 2:10 p.m. As part of the cloud track, he will explain how to use a distributed grid to implement powerful, Java-based applications for parallel data analysis.

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About ScaleOut Software, Inc.

ScaleOut Software develops software products that provide scalable, highly available caching and analysis 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.  www.scaleoutsoftware.com

Twitter Handle: @ScaleOut_Inc.

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