Majitek Profiled in Gridtoday
05/Mar/2007
Gridtoday Managing Editor discusses Majitek's product offering and the future directions of Grid Computing with Majitek Director of Marketing - Rob Cumming.
From the Editor
Derrick Harris
Where the Future Lies
A few months back, we ran an article discussing the emerging fields of Grid-based application platforms and extreme transaction processing, and shined the light on two companies Gartner has pointed to as lead companies in the space: GigaSpaces and Appistry. However, that same Gartner report also mentions Majitek, a Melbourne, Australia-based company whose solution portfolio, when deployed within the same datacenter, resembles the offspring of a lurid tryst involving Grid computing, virtualization and SOA. So, in the interest of balance, this week, we give you Majitek.
I was able to speak with Rob Cumming, the company's director of marketing, about all things Majitek, including what the company's solutions actually do, the future direction of Grid computing and, interestingly, what companies he sees as his main competition. Cumming also commented on the internal debate over what to call their GridSystem product and its underlying technology in the face of "Grid" backlash -- a topic on which I shared my thoughts last week. In the end, Majitek went with Gartner's terminology of "Grid-based application platform" and, to hear Cumming tell, isn't suffering as a result. Not that it should be surprising: The irrelevancy of terminology aside, Majitek's product line is pretty unique, especially in the land down under. It is my belief that these Grid-based application platforms are the future of commercial Grid computing, and when you throw in Device as a Service capabilities, you have something not too many other vendors can claim to match. Intrigued? Read the whole interview to see what Cumming has to say.
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