xkoto at the PASS Summit: Day 1
Wednesday, November 19, 200808:51 pm EDT
Thousands of IT professionals flocked to Seattle for the kickoff of the PASS Summit conference, where xkoto is an exhibitor. Both the turnout and high quality of the conference are impressive.
From an xkoto point of view, we are seeing a great deal of interest in the scale-out and continuous availability options that GRIDSCALE delivers for SQL Server environments. In virtually all of our conversations, the trick has been to “undo” people’s perceptions of traditional shared-disk clustering and show them that there is a much easier way to realize scale-out and continuous availability. Most of these solutions involve replication of a committed transaction from a master database to one or more passive slaves, and result in a complex infrastructure and expensive servers that sit idle. Once we get them to see how GRIDSCALE works – the light goes on and they quickly understand what a cluster of active-active databases can deliver: No need for outages to perform maintenance, scalability for read-intensive workloads, and inexpensive disaster recovery.
We brought GRIDSCALE for SQL Server to market less than two months ago and have seen tremendous interest. The PASS summit continues to build momentum for the product.
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